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There are organizations out there like the Puerto Rico Resilience Fund. Maybe they might be able to help/know someone. I read an article that sounds like they have a great solidarity network.
Mostly I believe it's just because I've been using Firefox for so long, but Chrome always felt a bit off. The developer tools was just a little worse, the GUI was a bit more annoying, the spell checker only works if can actually spell the words to begin with. Most people seem to prefer Chrome, and Chrome derived browsers though.
Can anyone provide a small (partial) list of GraphQL servers that automatically map on top of a database?
"Guys" is just as gender-specific as "lads".
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The complains about FOSS fundamentalists coming from proprietary software dev' (which I am) always seems a bit hypocritical to me.

The reason is, you probably use a lot of FOSS software that were made possible only because a lot of people dedicated time and effort to it.
Your servers probably run Linux, if not, the services that you use everyday probably do. Your compiler/language is probably FOSS too, if not, the software that was used to make it was probably. Your OS probably contain some FOSS software or was made using some. Even this blog post was only possible because of free software (medium rely on NGinx, NodeJS, Redis, ...).

Today, it is almost impossible to work without at some point relying on a free software or using software that relies on free software.
We wouldn't be were we at right now if it was not for FOSS. Hell, a lot of us may not have ever been developers if it was not for FOSS. I know I only learned programming because of FOSS like Ruby, Linux, GCC, ...

So I understand that we don't live in a world where everything is simple and where we can all live making free software. But criticizing the people who made your job possible doesn't seem like a good thing.
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Interesting that GraphQL popped up on the front page today. Spent a good portion yesterday digging through docs and tutorials about getting it setup in place of REST for my new project. Do the client side benefits REALLY outweigh the added complexity on the server side, particularly for light/minimal API calls? REST is certainly easier to whip up on the server side, and it's not like it adds a ton of overhead on the client side.
I suggest you to read "In the beginning was the command line" paper, it describe an ancient world with many companies, in the USA market, not academia nor URSS, that make big money and give software for free.

As a matter of fact job security is threatened by turbocapitalism in which anyone is a Ford-model replaceable worker...

The substance is that job security in FOSS is based on personal competence, you pay competence, actual work, not evanescent product so a skilled programmer it's always safe, a mediocre one is always in trouble and can't try "managerial career" to mask his/shes low skill...
Other than all the android phones, tablets, set top boxes and TVs.

If you include BSD as well as Linux, you get the Apple computers and phones.
Not to condone his views, but we have to remember the societal context.

Racism as a concept that needed a word was barely present in the early 60s [1], until then it was completely normal and expected by everyone. Bus desegregation wasn't until 1956. "I Have a Dream" was 63. Blacks couldn't vote until 1965. We might find it surprising now, but if he had written about an integrated community then, readers would have been shocked.

Now, for us, it serves as a valuable window into past culture. On a similar note, Roddenberry's Star Trek was 1966 - featuring aliens and--more shocking: Russians--cooperating. They received flak for that but HE was visionary.

1. https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=racism&year_st...
Execute better. It depends on the idea what this means, but in general your product should be a better choice for the customer than the competitor's. You probably won't be able to achieve that for all customers, but the more you convince you are better for them, the more market share you will have.
What's "unfortunate" about DC v Heller?
Well apparently they haven't modeled the Death Star yet... Turns out the closest thing to a Death Star is a bush.
And the motherboard? RAM?

The pi is a whole computer built around a SoC. The 6502 is a CPU only. This $25 claim seems questionable.
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Next to our private company email addresses, we have 2 shared email inboxes (info@...) that are being worked on by multiple people at the same time.

This is currently done in GSuite, simply by multiple people logging in at the same time. The volume of the emails in these inboxes are starting to get out of hand, and we are looking for a way of managing this differently.

The conversation view in Gmail is becoming somewhat of a hassle for certain situations, as its not always clear when a client replies to an email multiple times in a conversation flow, to what the client was replying in the first place.
We tried not using conversation folding at all, but this is completely unmanageable as we are receiving too many emails a day.

I was wondering what the experiences of HN is with similar situations, Im mostly interested in self-hosted, cloud applications or addons for GSuite. As I do no want to install software on computers.
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Hmmm re-reading my comment, it does seem to put blame on the page. However, I wouldn't expect relic of the past to be changed or maintained (cost obviously). It just came as a surprise that big wall of text couldn't be parsed by modern apps.

I expected modern parsers to be more clever. This article is a table like many webpages were in the first decade. Wondering how we can improve readability of such pages? May be the size of raw text ratio or something clever that considers how the page is rendered and extract key information.

Edit: Instapaper parsed it very well in the end!
1. This is orthogonal to the topic at hand. If you only trust a project with Joanna Rutkowska at the helm, neither Qubes nor any "desktop" system out there offers what you want.

2. The Qubes team has been doing a great job so far, and Joanna has not been directly involved for about a year now. Marek and Andrew Wong are the ones I notice the most on the mailing list and on github, but there is a big team[1] that has gotten Qubes to where it is today.

[1] https://www.qubes-os.org/team/
Lots of interesting bits in here, and some parts very prescient. The more interesting thoughts to me were near the end: “throw-away workers”, and the last quote on “truth”.
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picture of a bitcoin man on a free falling rollercoaster screaming /weeeeeeeee/

What's the purpose of that article? What can be discussed about Bitcoin and the other crypto currencies that hasn't been discussed here several times already?

There is no news besides the price collapsing but that has happened before as well. But this time it's different They are saying that during a bull run and during a bear market.

I don't believe that, there's no limit to human greed.
This is awesome. I grew up in a low income household/poor and always try to push getting into tech to people looking to make a change in their life.
The morality comes from letting the user exercise certain freedoms, which can only be fulfilled with source access.

With the spread of DRM into the everyday world, we can see how this is playing out: coffee machines refusing third-party cartridges, printers requiring users to replace ink even if it's not used up, tractors unable to be repaired by the owner.

A chair is quite close to its source - some people would find it easier to inspect the object than the blueprint. As such, there's no meaningful distinction between a chair and its source. In terms of freedoms though, a nonfree chair would restrict your ability to inspect or alter it. It would turn into dust when altered, or would be covered with a special layer preventing unauthorized repainting or installing a child seat.

All those things refuse the user to enjoy the freedom of operating them whatever way they like, with real consequences. I know I wouldn't buy any of them given the choice, and I consider them malicious. In my book, malice is definitely related to morality.
It's still pretty bad here, as you can see with many discussions the CNN-type opinion tends to be prevalent. What is nice is that discussions here often involve intelligent, analytical discussion around such talking points; a degree less hivemind regurgitation here perhaps.

I'm sure there is a heck of a lot less reputation management and astroturfing here. That is probably down to the size of this forum though.
I disagree with part of your argument. If being FOSS is important to you, by all means, only use FOSS. In some situations it is critical. For example, all of my devices become worthless once they stop being supported, unless they're FOSS.

At the same time there are some FOSS fundamentalists that think using proprietary software make you a bad person. They are wrong.
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Ah, ok, apologies; I didn't realise those two items I listed were your only reasons.

The main reasons people are concerned for privacy, I would say, are around influence and personal autonomy. There are plenty of people (many of them on HN, I've read many comments here to this effect), who want to cede decision-making about their own consumption to service-providers. There is an attractive convenience to this. Privacy advocates are typically not these people, and are concerned not just for their own individual autonomy, but also often motivated by broader societal concerns like those discussed by Pariser (obviously a hot topic right now w.r.t. Trump and Putin), as well as less-political aspects of selective exposure theory around societal trends.
I think Hasura takes care of building „good“ SQL queries that retrieve the data in a single request.

I agree that it’s often not viable to resort to the standard GraphQL resolvers that will produce n database queries when asking for a list of items with a corresponding joined field.

A while ago I built a MongoDB->SQL wrapper that would take a MongoDB query (with arbitrary many nested $include entries) and convert it to a single SQL query, which worked quite well. Of course this didn’t have any logic to check for permissions as we weren’t “crazy” enough to let arbitrary clients formulate the queries (we did it in the backend). The code is available at https://github.com/adewes/blitzdb, we used it with https://github.com/QuantifiedCode/QuantifiedCode.
That's what happens when you screw over the general public in a giant pump and dump. There is just no more money left to steal. First time was for the early adopters at $1000, second time was for the late majority at $19,000. You're not going to see that happen again.
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Artsy CTO here. Interestingly for the first 2 years we were conquering the frontier of nearest neighbor search applied to art, using some pretty new algos. Then ElasticSearch just built something 10x better and we tossed our entire codebase. I wish we just did it in the open, the advantage was quickly lost to a stronger open-source effort.
Everything sells off this time of year. Nasdaq is down 7% on the month. It’s end of year profit-taking for tax purposes. As BTC has become completely mainstream now, this makes sense.
Still up 500% since January 2017.
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Is this below the price where it is economic to mine? Presumably at some point the miners would have to pull the plug to avoid loosing money.
I really dislike this argument because it implies that as soon as something is deemed "bad", a tax should placed on it.
We'll be integrating other indexing in near future (such as faiss), Annoy is just one option for indexing that was implemented. Each indexing method will have their pros/cons, so you'll be able to select the search engine backend according to your restrictions.

There are many reasons why we depart from other libraries, many of them, for instance, uses JSON+base64 (http/1) for serialization, while we use protobuf+gGRPC (http/2).
You need to be at least 13 to use Google or YouTube, so they don't have to respect the intricacies of COPPA.
Does anyone have any details of what the vulnerability actually was?

I remember at the time a security "expert" was interviewed on R4 and claimed it was Islamic terrorists - something that he obviously read on a messageboard 10 minutes before the interview.
This is a really important point. I work with someone who has quite a bit of an ego. Definitely cares far too much about his personal brand, which has been built up over the years through open source projects. Any time you work on a project with this person you basically need to use all of his open source libraries if any of them are at all relevant for the project, regardless of if they are the best option for the task or not ... sometimes they are, sometimes they aren't.

By far, the best developers I've ever worked with are quite humble.
Ouch for my crypto investment, makes no difference to my crypto product. And that's the point, price of bitcoin is irrelevant to most crypto products. We're in the business of Fiat > Crypto > Fiat instant money transfers which is immune to what the current market is.

Crypto as a technology will keep moving forward.
Personally I think you think in term of "what if I start to work FOSS way today" instead of "what if we push all together a political reform that mandate Free Software". In the former you are wright: if you live on a single proprietary software sold as a product you easily find yourself done, in the letter you have to look back at IT history where at start, not in academia but in business software was normally open and companies are far stable and profitable than today.

In an open world you can't sell product, you sell skill, time, resources. If you try to be something like JustEat, Booking, Expedia, ... you are simply dead, but that's not a problem except at an hypothetical "model change", that's a good things for the society that prize real innovation ad work instead of marketing ad use (legitimate or abuse) of a commercial position.

It's not a matter of fundamentalism but a different social model.
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Imports from China are rising because importers expect prices to rise. If you want to know if tariffs are harming China you should look at FDI.
Yup. This is literally where milk comes from.
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What about $35 and $250?
I just came across this startup which is a "distributed team as a service" recruitment firm. I think it's worth checking out: https://www.turingtalent.io/
Good. Bitcoin is too wasteful when it’s at a high valuation. The amount of resources in both electricity and gpu hardware that gets locked into mining is too high.

It can still do it’s job as a currency with a lower valuation.
So open source is just a service model where the product is free but you get loyalty.

So "you are the product" seems to fit open source as well then, eh
> so I tend to write CTE-based JSON generating views for apps. (Yes, these are not high traffic apps...)

I enjoy using this pattern too. What kind of problems should I expect if it were to become a high traffic app?
Except the amount it's falling is not normal.
Comparing developers with academics is more apt. Mathematicians and other scientists don't charge usage fees for their theorems or discoveries.

Yes, you can pay the author for a book but you can reuse and modify ideas and concepts at will.

Job security is quite relevant in academia: most discoveries in the last 100 years were [in]directly funded by government and researchers were usually not working under time or financial pressure.
How is it possible that the USD/Bitcoin pair price doesn’t impact currency transfer businesses?
Innovators. No one really heard of Bitcoin prior to the $1000 pump.
I have the exact same configuration as yours and I confirm I can't get anything done during the days I'm at the office. It's all about face-to-face and meetings which is why I usually commute to work. Getting job done requires a quite place and at home, thanks to my wife, I can get a little control over my own private space which makes things easier unlike at the office where I lose control of the basic things like a quite space and some alone time. Since our jobs require both, it feels like putting milk instead of gas in your car waiting for it to move. It’s not fair and certainly not optimized for good results.

Yes I can still hear some noise on the background (wife/kid) but I can pop out of my room at anytime and chill with them. Rather than having a 10 min lunch with colleagues talking about work, jumping back straight to my screen listening to everyone else’s stories.
I agree the style is annoying, using many such paragraphs to meet the required word count, but Friston's reputation is well established in scientific circles (although I first heard of him yesterday).
Still nowhere near low enough for me to feel okay about ditching back in 2016 ...
IMO there's nothing "fundamentalist" about rejecting a _particular_ piece of
proprietary software.

When trying to sell a niche product, r/linux might not be the best place to
ask. I'm wondering if the author would have had the same response when someone
on a windows or mac subreddit did not want to use their software.

Instead try to sell to people who you solve a particular problem for.
Difficulty adjusts dynamically to ensure there is always an incentive to mine.
Sorry? I didn't mention BMI. I was referring to life year gains.

> Life years (LY) gained is a measure in health economics. It expresses the additional number of years of life that a person lives as a result of receiving a treatment.

And a 1% increase in LY after a 12 month intervention isn't a silver bullet, but it's nothing to sneeze at.
Try suggesting using FOSS in certain circles. You get called a communist and people throw stuff at you while swearing.
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Few people have not heard of crypto. If it is a ponzi there are no suckers left.
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Artsy CTO here. I am excited to see this article and, putting aside that it quotes me :)

A couple of things I wanted to highlight that are not in the article and should have been.

- Pay attention to how Microsoft has used open-source to turn things around in terms of developer credibility.

- Becoming open-source by default can still be an advantage as 99% of companies don't do it. It can still fix your hiring pipeline, but that advantage won't last as it's becoming more mainstream.

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The Dollop podcast did a hilarious episode on this.

https://thedollop.net/wp/episode-8-dollop/
Ok.

An additional thing is, if you find the optimal strategy in the form of: "in n round the best achievable median is x betting this and this way", you should check the strategy when n approaches infinity - I will not have been surprised if it turns out to be the Kelly Criterion after all - and OP will be right in this sense (though presented the fact somewhat badly by limiting the number of rounds)
The plaintext thing is just too sensitive, and your free service offer makes the reach too wide. Could you be compelled, by warrant, to provide all plaintext traffic from a single user IP?
No, it is almost certainly related to the network split, as mentioned in the article. There are issues with bitcoin that limit its long term potential. For example, the effective limitations on the number of transactions per second, and the huge energy cost for providing proof of work.
At $250 I was explaining to my parents what bitcoin is. At $19,000 I was overhearing Starbucks baristas talk about it.
Since the article states "the trigger for the latest sell-off is unclear" I'm really curious if somebody here could venture a guess about the reasons for the sudden drop. The Bitcoin Cash fork seems suspiciously correlated but is it big enough news to cause such a turmoil?

Being a cryptocurrency-skeptic I won't pretend that I don't experience a little bit of schadenfreude when I see CC crash, however if I'm trying to be a bit more constructive I suppose that means that we're nearing the "make or break" point: if the huge investment in cryptocurrency-related technologies over the past four years or so manages to produce something actually useful over the next year I have no doubt that this is only a temporary set-back and we'll see BTC (or some other coin) breach $20k again.

On the other hand if, like I believe, it's mostly scams, empty promises and poor understanding of technology and/or economy, then this might be the beginning of the end. Hype can only sustain a $100 billion market cap for so long. That being said I wouldn't be the first Pythia to erroneously predict the downfall of cryptocurrencies...
For the present it is enough to affirm the equal manhood of the Negro race. Is it not astonishing that, while we are plowing, planting, and reaping, using all kinds of mechanical tools, erecting houses, constructing bridges, building ships, working in metals of brass, iron, copper, silver, and gold; that while we are reading, writing, and ciphering, acting as clerks, merchants, and secretaries, having among us lawyers, doctors, ministers, poets, authors, editors, orators, and teachers; that we are engaged in all the enterprises common to other men -- digging gold in California, capturing the whale in the Pacific, feeding sheep and cattle on the hillside, living, moving, acting, thinking, planning, living in families as husbands, wives, and children, and above all, confessing and worshipping the Christian God, and looking hopefully for life and immortality beyond the grave -- we are called upon to prove that we are men?

Frederick Douglass, 1852

http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/douglass.htm

(I don't know his works well, I just searched and read...1 of them)
Good. Gives room for competition and creation of alternatives to the American sites we are pested with right now.
The marketing is working on you. Go is a small part of Google, but you highlighted that and not their Java or C++ or ads. 90% of people are not working on Go and flying cars; they are maintaining legacy search/ads systems with duct tape or launching a dozen DOA messaging apps a year.
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I see that I'm wrong.
Difficulty adjusts when total hash power changes, so for difficulty to adjust downward some miners will have to take equipment offline, ie "pull the plug".
Another example is Neo4j-GraphQL [1] - GraphQL API on top of Neo4j graph database.

[1] https://grandstack.io/docs/neo4j-graphql.html
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