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Self-replying to nail down what I strongly disagree with:

>Can I call my program "Open Source" even if I don't use an approved license?

>Please don't do that. If you call it "Open Source" without using an approved license, you will confuse people. This is not merely a theoretical concern — we have seen this confusion happen in the past, and it's part of the reason we have a formal license approval process. See also our page on license proliferation for why this is a problem.

This is from their FAQ and an example of the OSI explicitly acting like they own "open source". I am fine with proprietary terms being owned and controlled, for example "USB". I am not fine with organizations trying to usurp the language to try to push forward their agenda regardless of their intentions (and generally I approve of the mission of OSI)
Not sure how any of this would contradict anything I've mentioned. Perhaps you don't mean it to do so? If you do, you'll have to explain more because I'm not really following.
This feels like it’s making it a moral failing.

The effects of social discourse and corporate indoctrination are a thing.

A lot of people believe it’s a duty to support American companies by purchasing their packaged foods.

Advertising branches out of government propaganda research. It’s powerful stuff.
systemd actually can do a lot of restarting logic through the various ways in which dependencies on other units can be declared. I use systemd for basically everything that runs as a service on the system.
They don't own the trademark, but they could have, had the USPTO ruled differently. Much less exclusive terms, like Apple, have been trademarked.

To many in the open source community, myself included, when we hear open source we think of the open source initiative, opensource.org, and/or their logo.

I'm not bothered by your viewpoint. Sure, we don't own the trademark, but to me, open source is and long has been the culture that emerged out of the early days of building an open source operating system (Linux, GNU/Linux, *BSD, etc).

If you want "open source" to be a meaningless term, I'd first suggest trying to convince OSI to part ways with opensource.org. I don't think it's for sale, but maybe you could infiltrate the organization. Many have tried.
Plus, in order to get those 20% loss rates, you have to decline 80% of people, and half the 20% accepted will decide the rates are too expensive. So only 10% of applicants end up taking a loan. Then a $10 per application marketing/processing cost and $5 per application decisioning cost translates to $150 cost per loan booked.

Using the numbers above, it would cost $350 to lend $1000. That's 35%. If the loan term is 2 months, the APR is annualized by compounding that 35% 6 times, giving 500%. If the loan is amortizing, the APR calculation comes out a lot higher, probably more like 1000%.

This is the fundamental economics of high-cost, short-term credit (HCSTC).

It is UK, where I am, HCSTC is highly regulated by the FCA. The nominal interest APRs are less important that a regulatory rate cap: customers cannot be charged more than 100% total interest and fees for loans up to 12 months.
It would be kinda cool for all of Facebook's client-side code to just turn into a pair of <img> and <map> tags.

Almost geocities-esque, and it'll still work great if you don't have Javascript enabled. Adblockers can start integrating OCR and doing image manipulation.
I don't think in general food delivery drivers get compensated for gas so that would be just about the only time I personally would feel obliged to tip - and I mean in places where things are fair, not the U.S. Otherwise I think tipping is a thing people should probably stop doing, or at least to the extent they feel obliged. I've gladly tipped people sometimes when I feel like they went out of their way, but the stigma has to stop.
From inside the core team, I feel entirely community-focused. I spent a good chunk of last year working on improving many aspects of error messages, the top community complaint in surveys. Currently I'm spending time working on spec and trying to guide external (community!) work on clj for Windows, also two things highly mentioned in the survey. I spent all day today answering dozens of questions in HN, reddit, slack, mailing lists, jira issues, github issues, etc. Not even sure how it's possible to be more focused on the community than I am.
OSI actually attempted to trademark "open source" and failed.
There's another issue that I noticed when I was a hiring manager. Some people find it difficult to interview and manage people who are older and more experienced than them. Some feel uncomfortable giving orders to people who are their parents' age. Others feel uncomfortable with people who are much more experienced, maybe smarter than them. A young company with young founders and managers will tend to hire younger people more like themselves.
You're treating the harms as fungible, and for a lot of people that's not the case. If the research was good it can be done again in an ethical fashion.

Here's a longish but well-argued explanation of why it's a terrible idea: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-ethics-of-using-med...
"Lack of transit funding no longer rings true."

I can only address this for the Duvall area, but I can't agree with this statement. According to the latest city council meetings I was at, we're slated for >11% YoY growth in population (mandated at a higher level of govt, to my understanding, and without commensurate increases in funding), but have consumed our road repair funding for the next 5 years. This not including regular shutdown of the only two roads across the river, for which we have to beg Redmond to fund repairs for if issues happen, not even getting INTO the boondoggle that was the novelty hill switchback being built at half bandwidth due to legal/contractor malfeasance. (I'm also frankly, as you say, still bitter that the train buildout didn't start years ago, going back home to philly and being able to easily get into center city from >hour out via train is _such a relief_)

Enforcement was actually less my issue than how they've handled licencing. There was IIRC a lottery for licensing and they didn't take into account actual grower realized capacity, which alongside some very high tax levels, puts it non-competitive with the black market, has lowered quality and availability, and makes it very difficult to create new businesses.

I'd certainly agree with "Reasonably well managed" and would hope my complaints don't paint over the successes that I also mentioned. As you say with the city council grandstanding (and I'd mention some of the corruption in the ports prior) there are some pockets of issues, and that's why I try to "stay hungry" as it were for being on my local govts to improve themselves.
As someone who has started messing around with different open TensorFlow models and NLP algorithms I believe there’s is a lot of exciting things that AI/ML will unlock, although there is far too much hype right now.

Still despite the hype there are a lot product opportunities and we are only beginning to scratch the surface thanks to these phones getting better and generally large scale compute becoming easier to access. However, I disagree with the author that we can’t go vertical for now and have an app for each little advancement to take advantage of the piece meal innovations in this space. I think that’s exactly what we should be doing ala Shazam, as he mentions. I think product discoverability and growth is a whole other problem and I don’t think one needs a fully integrated magic AI/ML camera on day 1 to make an impact and have a great product, old techniques coupled with some of the newer open source models/papers these big companies are putting out can work wonders.

As a little example of this, and some self promotion, I recently built a cross platform app that uses some AI/ML techniques to read any article to you from the web, forgive me for being a little self promotional but if your interested you can check it out here: https://articulu.com
If you honestly think there's no difference between non-hispanic whites and hispanic whites in the U.S., you know nothing about race and culture in the U.S.
Thank you for nice explaination, it changed my mind to worry less.
That's mainly because veggies have a low calorie count in general. No one's going to get a majority of their calories from fruits and veggies alone. That's pretty prohibitive for most people.

Note: I'm not counting potatoes, rice, and other carb-rich foods here as veggies.
Shouldn't we classify fruits and vegetables separately ? Modern fruit is a huge deviation from the older times, they're almost as sweet as candy. Plus they're always available unlike the seasonal availability in the past.
Researcher demos MacOS exploit to access Keychain passwords, won't share details
Excellent question.
I'd love to go into detail to paint a clearer picture but I don't think it would be prudent. So let's work with this thought experiment which is definitely not out of the ordinary:
We're in a condition where half of the watch team has to be standing watch at a time. As a result, we have a rotation of 5 hours on, 5 hours off, 7 hours on, 7 hours off. In addition to standing watch, training has to be conducted, the ship has to be swept, maintenance of equipment needs to get done. As a result during your 5 hours off you try to get this all taken care of so you can sleep during you 7 hours off.

But wait! According to the 3M Navy planned maintenance system you have a spot-check with the Captain in the middle of your 7 hours off. Too bad. But wait! The XO has recently been displeased with the cleanliness level of the ship, so as a result during sweepers all people not on watch have to be sweeping the passageway. Too bad. But wait! The berthing has been dirty lately so when your people are supposed to be sleeping they are being woken up by the cleaning. Too bad. But wait! Half the team is on watch, and conducting flight operations requires us to realign a vital system on the ship. Too bad, looks like the people who are supposed to be sleeping are going to be woken up. But wait! We have to have a division-wide meeting and training for reason X, Y, and Z. Ideally you would schedule this at watch turnover but if it's something involved we can have our watchstanders being distracted so just do it in your offtime.

You get the idea.
"...people cannot afford to eat more fruit and vegetables"

Fruit and vegetables are cheap in the UK. To look at prices, just visit any UK supermarket's website (e.g. asda.com, tesco.com, sainsburys.com etc). Lidl and Aldi can be cheaper, but often the cheapest of all are small independent grocery stores.
I emphatically disagree about the waste of energy.

You do not need to always do novel work, and not every piece of code has to be in support of some specific engineering goal with external justification. I don't consider gardening a waste of energy, even if I can get groceries at the store more efficiently. I don't consider painting a waste of time, even if my paintings are bad compared to others.

Let people retread well-known paths.
I seem to recall on Hacker news seeing an estimate of about 150k.
They quit tipping through the service, and, if I'm reading correctly, instead zero the tip at checkout, and tip in cash on arrival.
If you are wondering why these companies think they can get away this this......

Look at the number of comments here from people who are going to continue using these service, and work around the problem by tipping the driver cash.

If you believe the leadership is amoral at a company, you have to be willing to walk away entirely or they will keep doing what they are doing.
> Why don't other countries have problems with payday lending?

Why do you think they don't?
What would you do to prevent it from happening in the future? Don't you find that google pretty opaque about why it classifies something as spam?
I would imagine there's a higher-than-average chance of this because most AC motors are definitely syncronized with the 60hz (or 50hz) AC source. There's a chance the lights might also derive from this.
>Tech landscape

Companies that use tech for their business =/= tech companies.

My overview:

1. Bloomberg [news, finance data tech]

2. AOL [zombie telecom?]. Yahoo HQ is in Sunnyvale.

3. Blue Apron [food]

4. Buzzfeed [news]

5. Tumblr [zombie adult microblogging]

6. Etsy [online marketplace]

7. AppNexus [adtech]

8. Flatiron Health [health]

9. Oscar Health [health]

10. Shutterstock [image hosting]

11. Squarespace [web hosting]

12. IAC (Tinder, Match.com, OKCupid, etc) [online dating]

13. Zocdoc [health]

14. Compass [real estate]

15. Casper [mattresses. Matresses, Carl!]

16. MongoDB [tech]

17. Warby Parker [eyeglasses]

18. Vimeo [video hosting]

19. Betterment [finance]

20. Classpass [um, fitness?]

21. DigitalOcean [cloud tech]

22. Foursquare [search tech]

23. Fanduel [gambling]

24. Stackoverflow [BBS tech]

25. SeatGeek [online ticket booth]

26. Birchbox [makeup]

I mean, if we brand matress, fitness, and make-up companies as "tech", then sure, plenty of tech in NYC.

Otherwise, I'd say it sounds a little... overhyped.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19072986

'dang explicitly said "might". I'd say this is still up in the air.
It's not too late! No reason sourcebut can't have a shovelknight-esque mascot, right?
There’s nothing inherently good about fruits or veg. Meat is a health food.

Ahahahahaha nice try meat industry
Afraid of losing a large market. It's the same with Australia. OECD countries need to band together to respond to countries abusing global trade.
100+ MB down to 5 MB is such a nice win, it's amazing that the author even bothered to continue from 5 MB down to 100 KB. Very impressive!
This is referring to federal income tax. If anything, these states should have lower taxes because their taxable base is significantly higher hence the lower "ROI" from individual's federal income taxes.
There isn't enough detail on this page to really know what's unique about this language. However, I'd say in general that I don't think this area is "solved" at all, and there are a lot of open problems (or at least, problems in integrating different approaches together).

Consider that there are multiple languages that have evolved in this space recently, all of which take slightly different approaches and make different tradeoffs. I personally know of at least: Nim, Rust, Terra, Zig. There are probably others.

(Edit: This isn't quite right: these don't all compile to C. But they're all low-level and make tradeoffs which are similar to C.)

You can say, "well all of these already exist so why not join up with an existing effort instead of creating a new one?" Except that languages make tradeoffs that fundamentally impact other objectives. For example, Rust has already made tradeoffs which make it seem unlikely that it will ever get Terra-style metaprogramming (at least to the full extent to which Terra supports it). And that might be fine for many of the things you'd want to do with Rust. But I at least have things I'd like to do that benefit strongly from Terra-style metaprogramming, and I might like to have something that combines the advantages of both. Right now that thing doesn't exist, and it's not obvious if you could ever get there in a reasonable way from either Rust or Terra by taking one or the other and trying to build to the other side. Thus, I don't find the approach of starting over from scratch unreasonable at all.
Oh - do people in the US typically have a hard time getting sufficient daily calories on a mostly non-fruit-and-veg diet?
I'm not missing the point. Ethics isn't negotiable. This is not a place to be cynical.

"Just following orders" isn't an acceptable excuse.

You either quit or you're complicit. It's pretty straightforward actually.

What we're trying to get to is a place where there is some incentive for organizations to do the process you described. At a certain point we're just going to legislate it, so we can wait for that blunt hammer to happen, or we can get our collective act together.
Home cooked fruits and veggies end up getting a lot more expensive when you factor in frequency of shopping needed to maintain a stock and time required to cook. I applaud everyone who manages to cook every day and I strive to do so, but both of the people in my relationship work full time and waste about three hours a day commuting, round it up to about twelve hours a day lost to work - cooking and then collapsing after that is un-affordable without getting lost in a spiral of depression.

We cook and eat well on the weekends, we try to reserve food for the week and I continue to be amazed by people worse off than us that are working as much as we are _and_ a part time job on top of it.
For point c this is completely untrue; you in fact can’t get a payday loan without a bank account, and many of the most sleazy practices of payday lenders (and all of the practices banned by the rule) are related to charging fees against bank accounts.

A and b are both true but don’t seem especially relevant; payments can still be made on a daily or hourly basis based on the work they are doing rather than bundled up at the end of a pay cycle.
For some reason this name puts me in mind of Chicken Cottage. https://chickencottage.com/
Where did I say I was grounding any of this in a chain email? I started out objecting to someone's over-the-top skepticism that anyone has every bought a luxury food on foodstamps.

Are you saying there aren't pockets of near-permanent poverty in America that depend on social spending? Nice, didn't know that was patched up.
Operating as it does currently? I think we could probably sustain operations at 70% of what we do now.

I think it's tough but doable to sustain it at the 100% level, but that would require a whole overhaul of the way the Navy does business.
A hybrid DLT architecture for gaming
Let's wait a couple of years until Julia stabilizes itself before suggesting is ready for production
The article notes that the number of "AI/ML hacking tools" has grown -- is there documented use of malicious actors using AI as part of campaigns? I've seen researchers publish tools that would likely fall into this space, but I'm curious if there's any known usage of these or other tools for malicious ends.
This kind of feels like it's touching on some of the same themes as the ABC conjecture.
>This is the fundamental economics of high-cost, short-term credit.

Exactly. People see 300% APR and think about it like it's applied to their premium credit card, the financial product they are familiar most, and get into rage without trying to run the numbers first.
Uber is actually not the best example of a natural global monopoly - because it needs to compete locally - most taxi rides are for local population. So there might be a natural monopoly (or duopoly) for a taxi app - but one per a metro area. This is different from AirBnB - where the app works truly globally. https://thinkgrowth.org/uber-is-going-to-0-and-benchmark-kno...
In these products, the stated interest rate is often low, but when you factor in fees the effective interest rate is astronomical.

Fees are also why payday loans can be attractive over real banks - a payday loan is likely cheaper than a checking account overdraft.
What in the world are you talking about. An apple is cheap - you don't have it for a meal.

Most people use about 2000 calories a day (varies of course, I need about 3k). A big bag of rice is 100 times less than those calories filled with fruit and veggies. Some cheap dark meat chicken is probably 50 times less expensive. A cooked full chicken at the store at $7 is cheaper than fruit. There are maybe 2 items that are cheap - potatoes and corn. That's about it.

We give food stamps to people so they can not die from hunger an afford rice and a box of centrum - not so they can eat healthy. To eat healthy, study in school and get a job.
Is Volt WebKit or not? I can't tell...
You are conflating two different things. Originally memes (the notion of idea + transmissibility) with analogy to genes. And image macros and other internet frippery.
Doing a big cook on the weekend is a good idea, but two hours or so is insufficient for a week if there are picky eaters involved. Processing the volume of veggies into food for a big meal like that will usually end up around two hours, but making multiple dishes in parallel adds a lot of time onto that, especially if you've got limited resources in terms of burners/cookware.
I wish Eiffel Software changed their dual licensing business model so that more people would consider using the language in production.
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How students are founding, funding, and joining startups in 2019
I'd be curious to know -- if you issued loans via prepaid credit cards that explicitly could not be used for gambling/drug dealer payments - what happens to the default rate of your (remaining) customers ... - can you filter out enough high-risk scammers to serve a legitimate market segment (with more fairness) with this kind of tactic?
“Waste of energy” is generous. It seems like a genuinely bad idea unless the problem space is poorly addressed (messaging is certainly very well-trodden territory) or the app is just a hobby.

Using a new language makes a single project into two projects, at least one of which is huge.

Among the many benefits of an existing language with a mature ecosystem:

- fewer bugs

- more than one person can contribute without learning a new language

- extensive tooling

- long term language support
Yes, that's precisely what I'm talking about.

> a lower minimum wage for tipped workers

Money is fungible; reducing paid wage by the amount tipped (to a limit) is the same as just paying minimum wage and taking that portion of the tip from the worker.
Copyleft licenses are not necessarily "free in the broadest sense possible." They place certain restrictions on what you must do with software you publish which contains code licensed under such licenses. There are several such copyleft licenses approved by the OSI which clearly do not fit your all-encompassing freedom definition. You also have approved license which place restrictions on use of branding and trademarks, and no effort is made by OSI to restrict licenses to those which also include a patent grant.

So if someone creates another kind of copyleft license, which is not quite the same as say, the GPL, but has the same spirit of the GPL, including a patent grant, then are they not allowed to use the term "open source" or "free software" because a protectionist organization declares itself the arbiter?
And the modern side will also be the losing side if violence breaks out. The urban prosperity machine requires trade and highly specialized work, which is vulnerable to political turmoil. Whereas the guns and food are overwhelmingly in the rural parts of the country.

I don't think it's all doom and gloom though. There are some promising signs that cities don't have to be coastal to embrace the new model and prosper. Austin, Pittsburgh, Denver; to name a few.

And even though the Trump administration is doing damage, it could also act as an inoculation. Their complete lack of competence is a limiting reagent. And in response, a lot of people who took benign, stable political institutions for granted (their relative rarity could easily be missed from a typical education) no longer do.
SPF and DKIM test the "Envelope-From" address that is part of the SMTP conversation, and separate from the "From" that is typically displayed in the message. If you examine the full "Return-Path:" header you will see that it was not sent from your friends address after all.

Everyone is receiving those (bogus) phishing emails.
> But whiskeys and wines have to fit narrow qualifications to be Champagne sparkling wine, or Bourbon whiskey.

Isn't that because there's laws and treaties enforcing that? For example the US isn't a signatory to any treaties about Champagne so you do get American wine labelled as Champagne in American shops I believe.

There's no law enforcing the OSI's definition of 'open source'.