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> Chef Software announced that it will be releasing 100% of its software as Open Source, under the Apache License

If I understand the change right, it's more accurate to say y'all are releasing 99.999% of your software as Open Source. That 0.001% being the the compiled/packaged binaries that your enterprise customers will actually run in production. Which runs into the same problem as doing the open core/enterprise split, but worse. If y'all make it easy to do that compilation/packaging then there's no reason for enterprises to pay a license fee.

I started using Rails for some side projects 4-5 years ago and recently started it using it again for a side project. I remembered chef as the tool to use for server configuration from when I first got into Rails and tried to use it for my side project. My experience was not very good and I gave up after trying to find documentation on how to write a simple script. The best I got to was either giving my info to download a 400 mb Chef workstation or being sent to an external site to install the Habitat CLI tool, which I'm not clear on what that actually does. Adding to that having to find a compiled chef from some third party is not good.

Long story short, I gave up after about an hour and decided to use Docker, Digital Ocean's Docker server image, and Gitlab CI/CD to manage my deployment. I've rambled a bit and I don't know if I actually have a point here. I guess if I had to end on one, it's that there isn't an immediately obvious and easy path into the Chef ecosystem which I think once existed. Ultimately, I don't know if you should or should not care that I didn't end up using Chef. My tiny bit of developer mindshare went away, but realistically it was unlikely that I ever would send any significant money your way. But, of course, there is that small chance that my project blows up or I end up somewhere as a decision maker and that potential revenue would go to the Docker ecosystem now.
Why Physicists Tried to Put a Ferret in a Particle Accelerator
> The security researchers also claimed they had created a modified version of Apple’s proprietary software development tool, Xcode, which could sneak surveillance backdoors into any apps or programs created using the tool. Xcode, which is distributed by Apple to hundreds of thousands of developers, is used to create apps that are sold through Apple’s App Store.

> The modified version of Xcode, the researchers claimed, could enable spies to steal passwords and grab messages on infected devices. Researchers also claimed the modified Xcode could “force all iOS applications to send embedded data to a listening post.” It remains unclear how intelligence agencies would get developers to use the poisoned version of Xcode.

Sounds suspiciously like XCodeGhost: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XcodeGhost.

This is probably worth a reference to Ken Thompson's "Reflections on Trusting Trust".
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I have:
3x raspberry pis
1x intel compute stick

iPhone (running MrMC) Apple TV (MrMC) but MrMC hasn't been updated to the latest Kodi yet so I can't use those in a shared env.
For one thing, anxiety isn't always a root cause. If you are autistic your anxiety may have roots in sensory issues, different from anxiety experienced by someone with schizophrenia.
Is there anything preventing a Firefox-derived project from using the Widevine CDM plugin? Or does that only work with official builds from Mozilla?
Where is the idea that software engineers are anti-union coming from? I'd like to know.

I like the idea of a software union and would love to flesh that out. Its been well documented that the FANNG corps have been suppressing wages for several years. Software is eating the world and if we have a role in that creation we should have a larger portion of the benefits.
How big is social media there? The #trashtag trend is really awesome, and would be good to get going. It's using people's desire for attention to do some clean up.
I didn't realize how many projects have been killed during the years until I opened the google graveyard: https://killedbygoogle.com
I hear you, it seems that technology is all about stonewalling these days...

I'm trying to bring to light a bug that allows to skip Ads in YouTube (no add-ons, extensions, etc.), but just can't get any attention: https://twitter.com/maketechfair
Show HN: MoonVision
Dear HN,
this is Alex, cofounder of Moonvision, an Austrian based computer vision company. We started in 2017 tracking grilled chicken at the Oktoberfest Munich [1] and transitioned into automating visual inspections tasks.

Our web tools are used by quality assurance experts to manage training data and create custom models without an external workforce. For such tasks and experts, the effort to label data is often prohibitive. Therefore, we built tools that work with low amounts of initial data.

To train a new pipeline we cover the following 6 steps:

- Video gathering
- Object mining
- Snapshot detection
- Annotation
- Training
- Deployment

Training data

Since video is the cheapest form of input, we extract relevant/repetitive scenes from it first. These scenes are cut to snapshots that avoid motion blur, occlusion and person specific information. Before an expert starts labelling, we create so-called auto entities. To further speed up annotation, we cluster entities interactively. Also, there are ways to check the data and isolate outliers.

We use a Redis based engine for label recommendations and few-shot detection on HTTP endpoints. Our training pipeline can also jumpstart these processes by unsupervised training.

Deployment

Our product is currently used by many big german manufacturing companies like Audi. This requires CD of x86 and ARM images that work on- and offline. Currently, we are looking to partner with integrators of machine vision solutions abroad.

With a strong background in applied research, we’ll make sure to deliver on the quintessential outcome: tools that take human-machine collaboration to the next level.
You can find a illustrative examples on our website. As a computer vision practitioner we would like your feedback on the annotation tool. There is a free version to use for your own project [2]

Danke

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHUnsdzFrWQ
[2] http://app.moonvision.io/signup
You are very certain of your conclusion while not knowing the answers to all the fundamental questions to make that conclusion.

> I don't see why it matters if they are airliners as long as instability does not translate to a higher safety risk

We don't know what the extra safety issue might be.

> I don't know if any other airliners are unstable or how unstable they might be.

We don't know if anyone has ever done this before, or how completely unusual it might be.

> In this case the instability appears to have been far less significant than the faulty corrective mechanisms.

And finally we don't even know the level of instability. The system was there possibly correcting for huge issues. After all the fleet is grounded instead of just disabling the system.
Worse, I read most of the article, but I never found the part where he actually writes the promised review.
I still have a 56kbps MP3 copy of Eminem’s first EP sent to me, pre-Napster, over AIM. I didn’t even realize it wasn’t unavailable until this post. And my son loves Eminem.
It is entirely possible to get your Instagram reinstated. What you need to do is know someone who has a close relationship with FB. In the past I used a friend who owns an influencer agency. After months of submitting my own appeals his single appeal did the trick.
Transitioning to an Agile QA Delivery Model
Biohack The Planet Science 2019 Las Vegas 8/31-9/1
You seem to be mistaking the fact that the W3C for Web Standards is just the browsers. The last time it wasn't, the browsers formed WHATWG and the W3C became irrelevant.
Not that I think anything I say will convince you to my thinking, but I didn't say "the CIA is spying on your phone so that the Russians and Chinese don't have to". I'm not sure how you got that from what I wrote.

In an ideal world, no one can hack my phone. This is why I support Apple and Google and Microsoft and all the others doing their very best to keep my devices as secure as possible.

In the worst-possible world, enemy nations have hacked my phone. Because if they've hacked my phone, they've also hacked those of my politicians and military.

In the real world, the only way for my country to be able to defend against enemies is to be as-good-as or better than those enemies at hacking my phone.

That's why I support it. Because I have a sneaking suspicion that truly awful people are working hard to hack every device out there, and the best infosec defense is a good infosec offense.

I don't disagree with you that "if you create a weapon you better be prepared for your enemy to use it against you". But a worse scenario than that is for my enemy to beat me to the punch and I'm standing here with sticks and stones.

The thing about an arms race is that once it starts, it's pretty much impossible to get out of. I didn't start the infosec arms race. It would be nice if the race didn't exist at all. But it does.

Only a "political doofus" would prefer to pretend otherwise.
Your second link is on a log scale. The left tail of that long-wavelength cone cell response is not related to the bump in the X of the XYZ color matching functions.
Show HN: Narrative – The World's Journal
You have a limit of 7500 people you can follow. Thus if you're going to be spamming following people, you need to unfollow them as well to make room for more follows.
From the looks of it, hypercasual games have extremely simple mechanics, no progression and often no end. Ex: flappy bird, .io games, etc... Advertising are their main revenue source.

Casual games are also simple but they usually feature some kind of progression, with new mechanics being introduced from time to time. For example, with Angry Birds, you unlock new birds as you progress. Candy Crush has different type of candy. In-app purchases are their main revenue source.
You're unfortunate if you don't have a choice of where you get your power - we do in the UK - and can readily take action, eg at the ballot box, to change that situation.

Meth isn't really a comparable need. However, suppose dodgy crack (cut with crap), or paracetamol, was available for treating headaches: you can choose the paracetamol which makes you partially responsible for keeping the dodgy crack producers/dealers in business if you choose their product.
Tuning AWS EC2 Instances with CloudWatch Metric Analysis
Would a person have any legal standing to sue their cell phone company for violating their right to privacy, assuming that the Bill of Rights could trump whatever license agreement we all agree to without reading?
The implementation of Multicasting (it's in GNUnet roadmap) can quickly make the mesh more efficient. In cities, wifi devices can start working together and manage bandwidth in a better way. Then a program can signal that, for example, 4 different wifis with GNUnet cover the same physical location. Somebody (network analyst hobbyist) could write to them and offer them to get a communal wifi that uses GNUnet superior performance while saving a lot on ISP services.
Impeccable logic
Indeed, and org-mode is supported (mostly, anyway) by Github and Gitlab renderers, as well as to a lesser extent by Gittea.

Since it is plain text, it is easily stored in revision control.

Apparently, this is not the case with Evernote[0].

[0] https://discussion.evernote.com/topic/95214-evernote-to-supp...
Frequency Tones That Targets Your Pineal Gland – Gamma Waves
Instagram is full of multi-million follower accounts doing this, it's very much an accepted practice on the platform. If FB wanted to disincentivize this they would, but they haven't.

Look at @lmao or any other "meme account".
She's mincing words, by overemphasizing a distinction between that "highly correlated" isn't that same as "completely explained by". It's akin to saying "There are no significant differences in height based on sex alone, since some women are taller than some men."
They are called buggalos :)
I’ve been running it since the earliest beta versions when it was literally Xbox Media Center - a media center for modded Xboxes (original).

I’ve ran it on all kinds of hardware from laptops, Android phones and tablets, Raspberry Pis (version 1 through to 3), Intel NUCs, etc. And obviously not forgetting the Xbox. Until very recently it was my go to media center.

I even went as far as to write some plugins for it. But they were for version 8 or something. It was probably 10 years ago and hasn’t been maintained.

I’ve never used a media center - free or non-free - that was as easy to set up nor ran as flawlessly as XBMC / Kodi did
Migration Strategies for Cassandra or Scylla Using Apache Spark and More
It's a different mechanism with the same outcome. If the scale of a solution is so immense that only one or two of the largest corporations in the world can realisitically implement it, then you've got a duopoly and all the bad power imbalances that come with it.

Which is part of why I think freedom is the wrong goal. You're free to choose between Kodos and Kang, but the ability to choose conveys no power.
> It's like the author doesn't realize that 99% of software development and deployment is done like this, or much much worse.

Not sure if you are talking about the author of the SEC document (the “bug report”) or the blogger, but in either case, what is okay in 99% of software development may be quite inadequate for critical software used in tightly regulated industries. Context matters.

> Managers care about speed of implementation, not quality.

Managers care about speed of implementation not quality insofar as quality is often hard to unambiguously measure and hard to assess impact on the bottom line (not just quantity, but whether there is really any impact.)

This is a fairly dramatic example of the impact being made concrete.
JavaScript How to build a racing game – Medium
No one outside of America has ever bought an Apple device, obviously.
If your question is "why haven't software engineers unionized?" the answer may be that the average software engineer doesn't get mad enough to start a union. haha
> The focus on freedom is too narrow

I think we need more resolution when discussing that part, too.

To me, the main difference between Free Software and Open Source camps is whose freedom they're fighting for. Free Software was always primarily about the freedom of the end users, while Open Source was about the freedom of the developer. That's why OS developers prefer permissive licenses - it's about granting themselves more power, making their lives easier. Free Software requires an ideology buy-in because if you advocate for more software being GPLed, you're making your life as a developer more difficult - you're really fighting for the freedom for your users.

Ironically, and in complete opposition to the author of the discussed article, I used to be strongly in OS camp when I first started programming. I had dreams of selling games, and dealing with GPL dependencies was annoying. But over the years, I learned to appreciate the insight of FSF and pretty much prophetic writings of Stallman, and now I find my beliefs being increasingly aligned with those of FSF. Open Source of today is a paradise for developers, but it mostly serves companies that abuse the end users.
The cheapest one you will find will probably be Rplidar or ydlidar x4.

Those sensors will not be great, but you will be able to do SLAM with them.

Here is a review of X4 that I wrote earlier this year: https://msadowski.github.io/ydlidar-x4-review/
I wonder what exactly they will be blocking?

$ nslookup http://sci-hub.tw/

Server: 127.0.0.53

Address: 127.0.0.53#53

Non-authoritative answer:

Name: http://sci-hub.tw/

Address: 36.37.242.94

It is trivial for the user to appoint another DNS server, or even to add the site to his /etc/hosts file manually, if they try to block at that level. It is also trivial to tunnel over another ip address to reach the one wanted. How is "blocking" supposed to work?

In the court document, they asked for an injunction against a list of domain names. Therefore, I assume the "block" will be limited to blocking them at the DNS level.

"Toutes mesures propres à empêcher l'accès" ("All appropriate measures to prevent access"), means everything and nothing, especially, when it is most likely impossible to do. What they really want is to block particular content. In my opinion, it is not possible for an ISP to support that.
He's tagging the original source, so presumably the actual authors get notified, and they can request the photo to be deleted... But obviously most won't, because their photo being shared, benefits them too!
Hyperbolic origami-inspired folding of triply periodic minimal surface structure
'Innovators' by Walter Isaacson is pretty great when combined with 'The dream machine' as suggested by others.
I wouldn’t say there are no differences between the “male” and “female” brain. I do know my brain wasn’t very happy on the hormones I was born producing — and there’s promising research about how gender identity actually has a basis in physical differences in brain structure [1] which are hypothesized to form based on exposure to various hormone levels during gestation (and which have already been shown to impact gender identity through the very elevated rates of transition of children of mothers who took the synthetic estrogen diethylstilbesterol).

But like anything involving gendered characteristics in humans as expressed in the world, the range of observed behaviors within the two populations overlaps so much it’s hard to draw meaningful conclusions about any individual by differentiating the two.

Based on my personal experience and from talking to others who have medically transitioned, the difference between “inherently male” behaviors and “inherently female” behaviors can be nearly entirely explained by hormones. As in, you change hormones and the behavior changes: testosterone tends to cause elevated anger / aggression while estrogen tends to make people more neurotic with a wider range of emotional response. That’s it. The rest of the differences are either personality or environmental / social factors.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-17352-8
Yeah, on the internet it's really hard to tell if a question is disingenuous.
That's more or less GALS ("globally asynchronous locally synchronous ")
For people who don't know what the costs were like, here's this page from a 1988 Whole Earth catalogue giving some pricing information.

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2janfrd&s=7

Compuserve $11 per hour, had "more than 250,000 subscribers".

The Source $8 per hour.

Delphi $6 per hour had a loyal but small (less than 10,000 users) following.

BIX $9 per hour.
I've learned a tremendous amount about how to be a better friend by reading "Daring Greatly", "The Science of Trust", and "12 Rules for Life", as well as from how my friends and family have helped me when I'm down.

Verbally expressing your love and support for your friend, and helping them see the positive aspects of their self, their situation, and the world around them can go a long way. If you can get them to talk about their views, and help them see when they're stuck in unproductive negative self-talk, that can be truly eye opening. Help them love themselves. Encourage them to come on a walk or run or other exercise with you; don't force them or over pressure them, but say that you promise they'll feel better.
I've had visions of this but in a subway / hyperloop tunnel below the ground. Getting stops every 30 miles or so, just tracking along the interstates.
Any union-related post on HN fills with anti-union comments pretty fast.

It may only be artificial. I suppose HN is as susceptible to astroturfing as any online platform. If that's the case, we would just need an expressly pro-union discussion forum or a subreddit to become popular for the idea to take off. Edit: Huh. Incidentally, I just stumbled upon /r/devunion which appears to be exactly that, although it's shut down.
> There are no significant differences in height based on sex alone, since some women are taller than some men.

"Boom! Myth shattered!" - The Guardian
If you think people moved to ansible, that’s the wrong direction. They’re moving towards containers.
I don't much care for planes, but I found this 'short take off and landing' contest pretty impressive:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pw4OE7gM2M
The Future of Computing and Why You Should Care
Walter Isaacson's innovators is that book - yes, it refers to that Usenet posting as well :)
The biohacking community is a bit like the personal computer community was thirty years ago, exciting, rapidly growing, and vibrant. I keep looking for a kit that will let my grandkids grow glow-in-the-dark bunnnies.
Good point - sorry if my comment was a derail!
She wasn't talking about breaking up Amazon randomly. Whether I agree with her or not, it was a well thought out position. You must read that before passing judgment. Basically, her point was that Amazon as a seller and Amazon as a marketplace must be two different entities that cannot and should not coordinate with each other. This makes a third-party seller on the marketplace at an equal footing with AmazonBasics. The marketplace stays neutral and is not subsidizing the Amazon seller and thereby putting other sellers at a huge disadvantage. Where I disagree with her is that this is the exact same practice that every major supermarket brand does.
Good point. Thinking about this more, I’m wondering if OKRs are just s byproduct of abstraction. Management needs to feel like they have a way to have “traction” on things they don’t actually have any real understanding of - eg the code. Similar to how devs think java is what the processor actually does.
A literate Go implementation of the Poly1305 crypto algorithm
1) Gentrification has moved most of the lower-income folks in Queens away from the subway lines. And in the Bronx, there is not much subway access to begin with (the lines are spaced as far apart as the entire island of manhattan).

2) The NYC congestion pricing scheme would apply to folks entering Manhattan. That would seem to include folks coming in from the Bronx and Queens.

The overall point remains--the "bridge and tunnel crowd" aspersions always were classist, but the gentrification of manhattan has now made it quite racist as well.
Maybe we're splitting hairs, but if you're paying 1.5 or 1.8 a month rent after you split 3 ways, that's around $5000 a month rent for a 3 bedroom and at city rental yields that's likely a 1.5-mil-plus unit (for ownership), which was kind of my point. If you want to be a homeowner with this property you need to be a multimillionaire. If you look at properties worth 1.5-mil-plus in Tokyo, rather than the average middle class house, I'm sure your opinion of the Japanese lifestyle would be different.

The tradeoffs are just as bad as in Tokyo, they're just different tradeoffs. Instead of a tiny house with poor heat insulation with a 50 minute train ride, you have 2 roommates and still pay a hefty sum of rent. That's a no-go for many people, especially those with families.
No, why would you? It’s typically highly, highly proprietary.
This isn't a problem..now. But how about when this is no longer profitable and he needs to get another job?