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If the MBA's were looking for a system to commoditize the nerds, they could not have come up with a better system than open source.

A nerd writes an scalable, robust, communication library and makes it open source. Do the big bucks go to the nerd? The one time popular kid in high school, pays a college student to wrap it in a chat app and becomes a billionaire.

Nerds write a database. The database is opensource so they get a pittance. The business people put the database behind a web service and make billions.

Nerds write a full text search engine. Do they get rich? No, but the business people sell it as a SAAS and get rich.

The nerds reward: They get to work as drones for the business people, who will lay claim to all their efforts both inside and outside the company.

I cannot see our current open source environment lasting 20 years. Relying on support is going to be more and more of a problem. What scenario do you think will make the Fortune 500 CEO happy: a) You bought support for open source product X from small company YZ which developed and open sourced X but which no body has heard of, or b) that you bought a support contract from fellow Fortune 500 company C which everybody has heard of, but does not contribute any upstream changes to X?
I don't think Amazon's trying to claim that Elastic has done something legally or morally wrong. They just don't feel Elastic has lived up to their standards for community management, so they're going to take their ball and go start a new community with higher standards.
Someone shared this on a different forums, it’s a recent NPR interview of a pilot for American Airlines.

https://overcast.fm/+nmn7rqq0/06:04

It’s a short interview but in short,

* Boeing left out info on the new flight control system in the pilots manual they trained with

* the training to fly the new planes was 56 minutes of PowerPoint presentations on an iPad

* he would not have known how to correct the system in the Lion Air crash had he have been the pilot
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Lots of jumping to conclusions going on in this thread, blaming the FAA, lobbyists, and politicians for being in the pocket of Boeing.

Nobody knows why this plane crashed. The flight recorders have just been recovered and so far there has been nothing in the news about what was on them.

The plane might be to blame. The airline or the pilots might be to blame, and by the way, that airline has a bad safety record. It might have been a bomb, or a fire caused by a passenger, or many other things.

The sudden rush to judgment on this case is unjustified by the evidence. If it turns out this was not Boeing's fault, a lot of people are going to have to eat their words, and millions of dollars will have been wasted for nothing.
Also, by guaranteeing we’re the source, it only makes us more liable for what is written. If I say something that reads like a commitment, or get upset, or tell a mistake, there’s always a chance of benefiting from a loophole during trial; if it was digitally signed, no escape.

The best interest of companies and individuals is that others send them signed mail, and that they send non-signed mail... I think that doesn’t help at all.

It’s different from signing a website, because one is way more self-conscious when putting informations on a website.
I would love to Alpine all the things, it's just so fast to work with, BUT musl makes things hard, especially if you're over in Pythonland - packages with C dependencies, if built, are only built for glibc, so when installing them on Alpine, one has to have a compiler, development headers etc. Makes things too slow and error prone.

Otherwise it's a great distro and I use it for non-Pythonic stuff or for Python with no dependencies.
The talk about opioids always seems to forget the origin of the crisis : the war against Afghanistan taliban's successful curbing of opium cultivation and trafficking. The big pharma and industrial interests and their political servants are not challenged about it till today.
Amazon is not a monopoly... monopoly does not mean “successfull company I son’t like”
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> It's not like Boeing took a freshly minted Cessna 152 pilot, gave them a 2-hour seminar, and type-rated them for the 737 Max

This ASRS report almost makes it sound like that https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19374386
You are not remembering correctly. TSA doesn't care what kind of water it is, you take 100ml or less with you. Also I'm not quite sure, you know what the word 'machine' means.
I don't get it. Airline workers, Ted Cruz, Mitt Romney and democratic senators are for suspending it, which China, the EU and Australia have already done.

What's going on at the FAA?
I am not intimately familiar with the finances of PayPal, Google, Facebook, or Amazon.com, but I suspect they may be able to afford an S/MIME certificate. Perhaps even two or three!

> Webmail (which a lot of people use) is also not ideal for dealing with certicates. You more or less have to trust the mail provider with your private keys. There are just countless attack vectors.

You are already trusting the email provider with everything. What's so bad with trusting them to verify a signature, too?

We're not communicating state secrets over encrypted email here; we're just verifying the signature on "PayPal sent you a message, click here to view it"-kind of emails.
Although the profits are the same, it is to do with volume.

For example, both you and I sell "widget X". The profit on each item for us both is $10. If I sell 10, I make $100. If you sell 1,000,000, you make $10,000,000. We are both have the same profit margin (i use this word lightly, as its only because of the subsidy that there is any profit), but I cant live off my small share. You, however, can afford to invest to expand your business - in a market which is NOT PROFITABLE (this is the point I keep trying to drive home, but you and GP just don't seem to get this point).

These large companies are growing their businesses in an unprofitable market, driving down the margins where it has become unsustainable for small players to exist. It's not a fair playing field as, due to the way the dairy industry works, all milk is equal. They aren't making better milk, or cheaper milk, they are making MORE milk - these large farms were specifically established for and driven by the ability to earn guaranteed "profits" in a UNPROFITABLE MARKET. You can call that optimisation if you like, but its still about the subsidies!

So thats the economy of scale, and it's been driven by subsidies. The larger you are, the more money you make.

Id like to also point out that these larger farms are able to secure funding to further drive their growth, based on them being so "profitable".

If the government stopped the subsidies, you are correct - that is exactly what would happen - and it would happen faster. The problem is that this entire situation has been caused directly BY the subsidies. Ergo, it's about the subsidies.

Of course, now these large farms exist they are able to reduce costs (primarily on feed) so there is certainly economy of scale in that regard - but they shouldn't exist in the first place - they were created out of subsidies, are supported by subsidies (they are still unprofitable!!!), and have made the market untenable for smaller farms.

Normal Behaviour:
Widget X loses $10 per sale.
Large company sells 1,000,000 widgets = -$10,000,000
Small company sells 1,000 widgets = -$10,000
Small company is more 'profitable' than large company.

Subsidised Behaviour:
Government subsidies widget X sales by $12 a unit. Brings profit margin to $2 per sale
Large company sells 1,000,000 widgets = $2,000,000
Small company sells 1,000 widgets = $2,000

Nothing has changed other than the government creating an artificial profit margin. The large company can use these assets to expand, and create more widgets for sale. The price of widgets goes down.

Im not an economist, so I cant explain this using some fancy formula, but all the literature is available for you to read if you are so inclined.
That’s handwaving. The only way to find out if rnns are more robust to noise than cnns is to test them on the same task, with the same inputs and the same noise. Preferably using similar number of parameters and achieving similar accuracy before noise is applied. Then gradually increase the amount of noise, and compare the impact.

Nothing like this has been published AFAIK.

After you have the results of this experiment you can try to explain them with attractors and what not, but I would be surprised if there was much difference. Would make a good paper though!
having "recent version" and "CI status" in the readme seems a tad unnecessary to me. No commits should be merged to `master` which fail CI, and the releases are only one click away anyway.

depending on the type of project, it can certainly be very helpful to have a link to a working demo. But presumably having a dockerfile wouldn't be worth the hassle if it were automatically possible for docker to use the config environment specified for CI and run the latest release?
But the title “if you want to cross the Amazon by bridge, you’ll first need to build one” isn’t nearly as snappy.
This is a "fifth risk" scenario, where the FAA misjudges other countries' aviation authorities as mere America bashers. The Feds also misjudge their own threat environment, gambling that the rate of hull losses due to MCAS problems is low enough to fly through.

The question, "What if we're wrong?" doesn't get asked. Instead, the FAA Administrator's boss tweets a complaint about aircraft being too complicated. No, the problem isn't overcomplication, it is failure to build, document, and train for the aircraft and pilots you have, not the ones you want.

The Trump FAA are clueless political hacks, not professional safety experts and airmen. They don't handle black swans well, and think of economic costs before human costs.
This response doesn't address why Netflix and Expedia Group is joining AWS open distro effort. Licensing is major headache for them I assumed.

Personally, as current and former administrator of multiple ES cluster, I'm quite worried how this "intermingling of open source and proprietary code" will affect my current and previous team.
We certainly not aware of it before this week.
"Shitty default configuration" I suspect this goes by another name: it's a configuration that focus on commonality with the previous generation

Because adding the indicator and how to handle situations will add training hours, this is not done.

But I'm glad Southwest is doing it.
Idea was to prevent licence violation. It is hard to do anything as an individual against companies that violates OSS licences. But since then I learned much more about licensing, and I think I changed my mind. I won't be mentioning any specific entity.
> The sudden rush to judgment on this case is unjustified by the evidence. If it turns out this was not Boeing's fault, a lot of people are going to have to eat their words, and millions of dollars will have been wasted for nothing.

The prudent thing would be to err on the side of caution and suspend it until we know. What's millions of dollars (which I think is way exaggerated for a temporary suspension until the evidence is in) compared to a real risk of loss of human lives?
Thank you. I didn’t know about this.
I think you have an overly rosy view of the aristocracy of old. That social institution involved a hereditary monarchy, and you don't have to go very far back before the term divine right was being thrown around. Talk about entitlement...

If you go back in history, I believe you'll find that most socially advantaged people simply thought they were inherently better than others. "I worked harder", whether true or not, is a better narrative.
Quite frankly I think it’s a bit sensationalist for people and the media to point fingers at the FAA for making “irresponsible decisions” and being beholden to lobbyists while conveniently ignoring their track record.

The FAA is notorious for their draconian ways which has become the impetus behind why air travel is now the safest mode of transportation today. In fact, there hasn't been a hull loss on US soil since 2009, a magnificent safety record.

The FAA is a very hands-on agency. There is an inherent difference to how planes are maintained that touch US soil vs. those in other parts of the world. For example, many planes that fly in South America would never pass FAA inspection and would never be considered airworthy. That means a flight itinerary of LAX-SCL vs. LAX-PTY-SCL are very different when it comes to safety since the plane that departs from Panama is not inspected by the FAA.

So not only is the FAA risking an insurmountable amount of fallout for making this statement, they also have the credibility and processes to stand behind it. With that said, I think it makes prudent sense for other countries to ground their 737 MAX planes since they simply don't have the FAA.
> block JavaScript

How did we even get here? I remember when we used to hide javascript inside of comments to support user agents that didn't speak it.
In C++ using COW for std::string was a common implementation approach, before C++11 made it invalid.
Skype is abandon ware now. They want you to use teams.
I do the same and I get that a lot. Most of the time from people using Outlook.
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Really good point about use case specifications. I sure will be researching my options. Thanks!
What people seems to forget frequently is that a lot of the value proposition from elasticsearch comes from lucene, which is an Apache foundation project. And they are able to deliver more value over it because it's permissive Apache license. It's not like elasticsearch built everything from the scratch and there are others approfiting from it.
Millions of dollars could save a lot of human life right now, even in America.

Who in their right mind downvotes this? I realize HN is not representative of America, but I think if you take a moment to notice all the homeless people you step over on your way to work in SV you'd reconsider.
I dont understand quite why there are such long lines in Denmark. I know about America and why due to historical reasons they vote on Tuesdays, but this is the first I heard about queues in Denmark. Having been to Denmark quite a few times I always though Denmark to be better organized than Germany even. Maybe you could give some background as I am genuinely puzzled.

For some background. In Germany I voted in big cities, medium cities, tiny villages. Big elections and small. I never ever had to wait more than 5 minutes, I don't actually remember ever having had any experience that equated to 'waiting' as you would in a supermarket queue etc. I made some smalltalk with the election helpers sometimes but that's about it. I also never heard anybody ever mentioning waiting time when voting.

Basically voting happens on a Sunday. You get your morning breakfast. You decide to go on a walk with your family either in the morning or afternoon and stroll towards the voting place with your voter registration card and passport. You get the ballot. They strike your name from the list. You vote. You go home.

As for electronic voting. As a software developer I say it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever at all. It is already risky to tabulate the final data in software and forward this electronically. It would be better if it was phoned upwards and the written document then signed, sealed and sent afterwards for verification.
But not if you have 20seconds to recover?
Nonsense.

Ethiopian airlines is rated Category 1 by the FAA and can thus fly direct to the US and they are a member of the star alliance.

Just because they are the largest carrier in Africa does not imply dubious safety or maintenance.
> If Elastic wants to adopt an open core model, that's perfectly fine, but mixing the open source and proprietary bits in the same repo is messy and should raise eyebrows.

GitLab recently proposed a similar action. See the below link for the trouble they had maintaining two codes bases for one application. I have dealt with git submodules-it is not fun.

https://about.gitlab.com/2019/02/21/merging-ce-and-ee-codeba...

This is what GitLab proposed. I thought they handled it very transparently. Other companies should take note.

The gitlab-ce and gitlab-ee repositories are replaced with a single gitlab repository, with all open issues and merge requests moved into the single repository.

All frontend assets (JavaScript, CSS, images, views) will be open sourced under the MIT license.

All proprietary backend code is located in the /ee repository.

All documentation is merged together and clearly states which features belong to which feature set. Documentation is already licensed under CC-BY-SA.
> There's nothing stopping spammers from signing their spam. The pain point with signing and encryption is key rotation.

Yes, but those signatures can't be verified.

I understand this is tricky problem; how do we prevent people from simply clicking "accept this unknown key"? I'm not sure; but not every user is a blubbering idiot, and "unknown signature" strikes me as a lot better UX than "carefully look for spelling errors or misleading domain names".
What an incredible non-story burying an actual real and terrifying story.

The crux of this entire issue is a company known as Dark Matter, which is essentially a UAE state sponsored company, potentially getting a root CA trusted by Mozilla.

It's highly suspected that Dark Matter is working on behalf of the UAE to get a root trusted certificate in order to spy on encrypted traffic at their will. Everyone involved in this decision is at least suspect of this if not actively seeking a way to thwart Dark Matter.

Mozilla threw the book at them by giving them this technical hurdle about their 63-bit generated serial numbers - which turned out to be something that a lot of other (far more reputable) vendors also happened to have this issue.

Should it get fixed? Ya, absolutely.

Is it nearly as big of a deal as giving a company like Dark Matter, who works on behalf of the UAE, the ability to decrypt HTTPS communication? Not even close - this is far more scarier, and much more of a security threat to you and me. It's pretty disappointing that this is the story that arstechnica runs with instead of the far more critical one.

The measure of what makes a trustworthy CA are things like organizational competency and technical procedures. These are things that state level actors easily succeed in. There is no real measure in place for motives and morals for state level actors. That should be the terrifying part of this story - anyone arguing about the entropy of 63 or 64 bit is simply missing the forest for the trees in this argument.
How can this possibly be a surprise. It's public interest vs a multitude of companies: airlines, Boeing, their suppliers etc. It's absolutely no contest in current the US system.
These flowers are like something out Alien. Scares the heck outa me.
No, not as opposed to them.
One reason is a trusted PKI. Even if an email is signed, how does one verify the ownership of the key? I hope certificate authorities aren't the answer here, we've all seen how that worked for the web.

This is where a PKI on a blockchain makes sense.

Product Pitch: Signed emails, with inbuilt verification of key ownership, backed by a PKI on the blockchain
All I can say is OMG yes. I've been meaning to write the exact same blog post. How is it we're at 2019 and email clients don't demand some kind of signature? How is it that you can spoof email... simply by entering the fields however you want to? It's insane.

I agree that the key exchange is difficult, but seriously I'll even take a CA if it means that I can reasonably tell that email that appears to come from my bank probably comes from my bank. Even better if a technical user can manage the keys themselves, but at least lets do the bare minimum!
It shouldn't be offline, using recognition online but at your own cloud would be the way too.
As for Switzerland. Swiss women can only vote since 1971 (I was quite shocked learning that).

Also see https://www.newlyswissed.com/die-gottliche-ordnung-film-revi...
That's what everyone said before the Ethiopian Air crash as well
If they deal in interest they are worse than slave owners in my eyes
It might turn out that the MAX situation is a similar roll of the dice.
But literally a paper trail is generated that can be used to audit any problems. How is that not better? Your "hanging chad" issue being a feature makes it sound like you're OK with disenfranchising people you look down upon.
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that is why multiple people in the office of different political factions count the votes. And they are also present all the time. Otherwise you can simply do it the Russian way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oSeRyaFllY
By financial measure. If Norway grounds the plane (by not allowing it in its airspace), it impacts their (and other nations) airlines. If the US ground the plane, it impacts their (and other nations) airlines, and their airplane manufacturer. (The impact for the latter is hard to measure, particularly for the long-term).
How is voting by mail any more secure or privacy preserving than voting digitally from your couch?
wow i feel nervous enough having to drive someone else's car without having a quick look at the different setup.
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> One would certainly hope that after this was revealed, all Max-8 pilots would be well prepared to recognize the situation and handle it

Far from certain, becaus Boeing is selling and the companies indeed treat it as "the same plane like old" even if it obviously isn't:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19374386
There is a painful but telling postscript to the excellent article about the tragedy of crime in Baltimore and the ineffectiveness if not obliviousness of the city's mayor to stop it. Last night, March 11, during the three hours between 6 and 9 p.m. in Baltimore, four people were shot. This evening, March 12, within 24 hours of these shootings, Baltimore's Mayor, Catherine Pugh, is hosting a birthday party for herself and asking attendees for $6,000 for her re-election. What more is there to say!
Some "interactive" websites have to use javascript, it's true, but it always seems tragic when a site that doesn't really need to requires it anyway. Isn't there something appealing about a platform where millions of strangers can converse and publish information without needing to fully trust one another?
Boeing spends a lot of money on lobbying and the CEO called Trump after his tweet.
they stopped flying 737 Max even in Russia. That is in the country where drunk (not to mention heavily hanged over) pilots isn't something out of ordinary :)

Anyway, reading for example this https://theaircurrent.com/aviation-safety/what-is-the-boeing... for a layman like me it sounds like making 737 (statically stable plane) into the Max Boeing produced a kind of F-16 - a statically unstable (and thus a great dogfighter) plane which cant be flown manually and requires constant controls adjustments by software.
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AI systems that are able to work offline are great for privacy.

The thought that every interaction with my phone is being streamed in realtime to a third party server freaks me out.

Kudos to Google for working on this.