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> I would like open source to be a viable model for projects run without maintainers needing to be independently wealthy or full time employed elsewhere. This article is pouting out that we’re a long ways off.

Why? There's no guarantee that's going to result in better software anyway. Sounds like a desire to just be able to work on absolutely whatever you want and get paid (very well) for it.
The average male lifespan in Russia in the 90s was 58.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1116380/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC259165/

The economic policies Harvard (and to be fair, the Clinton administration, whose fixers put Yeltzin in power in 96 -talk of interfering in elections: overt, boasted about even, and gone down the memory hole) inflicted on Russia in the 90s literally killed millions of Russians.

So, yes, "basically genocide" is an appropriate choice of words.
Your statement makes no sense. There is a lot of information that ought to be exposed, is classified and will cause harm to some people. Exposing secrets almost necessarily will cause harm to somebody.

Furthermore you refuse to allow assange to be classified as a journalist on that basis, which is exactly what Glenn greenwald did. So I suppose you would disqualify Glenn greenwald as a journalist as well? If not you’re wildly inconsistent.
But I think you need to take a step back and ask what the point of a military is.

If the point were actually about defending one's country, then there are surely more effective ways to spend the money.

By all appearances, the modern military is just a convoluted way to funnel public money into the pockets of a few contractors and corporations (whose investors and shareholders win). It's an immensely inefficient way to skim money from the general population.

One might say the modern military is more precise, suggesting that we care about avoiding civilian casualties. However, the US drone use blows that theory.

If the goal were to defend a country from terrorists (modern invaders), then we would be concerned with right wing extremism which is responsible for more deaths than foreign "terrorists".

Lastly, if we were just concerned with human lives and longer lifespans, we would be putting most of our money into combating heart disease.
I interviewed with such a place and started questioning them about what this really means. How much do people take on average? What would be unacceptable? The response was pretty much something like "You can take off when the workload and your projects allow it" and they didn't give any hard numbers. It made me wonder if people there actually take less vacation than the usual few weeks.
I started Surreal CMS 10 years ago. By far, my biggest fear was how to setup a business, taxes, etc.

It’s actually quite easy.

I’m in the US, but from what I’ve read below, it’s very similar to the UK. I think people get confused about the types of businesses and how they’re taxed. For a one-man show (and even some larger businesses) an LLC is probably the easiest way to go.

With an LLC, your business taxes are passed through to you. Instead of filing taxes for yourself AND your business, you’ll just file once and include a Schedule C for the business. Makes things a lot easier.

It’s a bit different in each state, but setting up the business is a matter of searching for a name (usually done online) and submitting a couple of forms. Once you’re “approved”, you’ll receive Articles of Organization.

You’ll also need to get an EIN number from the IRS. You can do this online in minutes and print it out. Take all this to bank and you’ll be able to setup an account. Now you’re in business.

After that, the only really complicated thing is taxes. You’ll need to pay quarterlies, and the amount is estimated from what you’ve made and what you expect to make. Once you have revenue, I 100% recommend hiring a CPA to help with this. They’re not as expensive as you think. (I was doing my own taxes with software for a couple years. Then I hired a CPA and she saves me more money than I pay her each year.)

That said, until you actually have something earning revenue, you probably don’t need to start the business yet. Here in the US, you can operate as a sole proprietor. The big drawback here is your personal assets aren’t protected, but until you have customers you probably aren’t worried about that.

I probably just made it sound more complicated than it really is, but I promise, once you get through the intial setup you’ll think, “what was I ever worried about?” Just keep in mind that this is my experience as a one-man show. More complex business structures should probably consult with an attorney.

My takeaway is this: starting a business is easy. Running it can be tough sometimes, but it’s one of the best decisisions I’ve ever made and it’s extremely rewarding.

Best of luck!

Edit: fixed typos
> I think it would be tough to find a suitable definition of "meaningful".

I do not believe it is tough to find a suitable practical definition of meaningful: If a piece of information has no effect on the output of the algorithm, regardless of its value, then it is not meaningful.

Examples of meaningful values would be any value in a list being sorted. Non-meaningful values would be any other bit than the lowest bit when determining if a number is even or odd.

I find it to be an incredibly trivial definition when considering algorithms.

> If "meaningful" is a non-trivial property, as difficult to determine as an algorithmic lower bound, then it's not terribly useful.

I find the case where the full input is not meaningful to be an outlier that does not at all affect how we normally deal with algorithms and bounds.

However, when the two do not match, one can start discussing what your input actually is. I would, for example, argue that an even/odd number checker only ever takes a single bit as input. It may consume more due to architectural limitations around bit accesses on modern architectures, but that is not part of the core algorithm.
So... let me get this straight. Youre alright with a foreign national stealing or encouraging the theft of classified US intel and publishing as long as it didnt happen on US soil? Further, youre alright with Americans being exposed and/or killed b/c of it? Because, you know, though it was a crime against the US, it was perpetrated by a foreign national of foreign soil?
In 'Working' [0], Robert Caro spends pages on how much being able to join a community of writers meant to him when producing 'The Power Broker.' The New York Public Library set aside a room as a workspace explicitly to house writers working on books.

A passage from 'Working':

And these writers provided more for me than merely the glow of their names. In my memory, no one spoke to me for the first few days I was in the room. Then one day, I looked up and James Flexner was standing over me. The expression on his face was friendly, but after he had asked what I was writing about, the next question was the question I had come to dread: “How long have you been working on it?” This time, however, when I replied, “Five years,” the response was not an incredulous stare. “Oh,” Jim Flexner said, “that’s not so long. I’ve been working on my Washington for nine years.” I could have jumped up and kissed him, whiskers and all—as, the next day, I could have jumped up and kissed Joe Lash, big beard and all, when he asked me the same question, and, after hearing my answer, said in his quiet way, “Eleanor and Franklin took me seven years.” In a couple of sentences, these two men—idols of mine—had wiped away five years of doubt.

[0] Caro, Robert A.. Working (p. 76). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
Raising twins pushed me way over to the nature side of nature vs nurture. What works well for one child may be entirely counterproductive for another.

That said, one thing this article really gets right is the importance of not letting your emotions control your mouth and making threats/promises that you can't/won't keep. I also think it's very important that when you screw up while parenting (and you will screw up), that you be sure to take responsibility and apologize to your children. I think a lot of parents think apologizing will make them look weak or diminish their authority, when it's really the opposite.
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It is a good thing Electron below that line. Hopefully, it will stop developers from creating software with it, wasting our memory and performance, effectively making planet warming faster.
Editors have a lot of control over what is (and is not) published by a newspaper, so "the Guardian has a bone to pick with Julian Assange" could be translated to "the Guardian's editors have a bone to pick with Julian Assange". In addition, accuracy is not the only factor -- tone and angle are also incredibly important because they shape the conversation on a topic. And the tone of an article is definitely shaped by editors.

If there is a consistent record by a newspaper of negative (or in some cases outright false) articles about someone, I think it's fair to say that they have a bias against that person. I'm sure you'd agree with me the Fox News has a strong bias against AOC and Ilhan Omar -- it is sometimes reasonable to make a generalisation like that if the general trend is in a particular direction.
The cargo culting is unfortunately too true. SOX/SOC reporting exists for a reason and it's actually pretty easy to get real value (which is the intent) out of it, as it formalizes what you should be doing anyway. It's a really good feeling when appropriate processes/controls reveal things that fell through the cracks and they get remediated. Prepping for and performing a successful audit needs to involve the company's subject matter experts from multiple departments. If only the CFO is involved early in the process, it makes life harder for the CTO, CISO, and CIO (or whoever they delegate to) later on.
At least as if last Sep, no. I actually called customer service.

Wechat pay is an option though; you just need to find a Chinese national that will send your account money.
Puerto Rico energy plan introduces MiniGrids to avoid repeat of Hurricane Maria
I mostly speak from experience designing, implementing and operating a distributed database/storage system and traditional storages, databases before that.
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> Apache have a 30mm autocannon slaved to the pilot's helmet display, such that it shoots where the pilot looks

The same system also exists for the Eurocopter Tiger
nice downplay of the crimes of the Orange man.

Do you think that authoritarian regimes seize power outright? Even Hitler had to wait for the burning of the Reichstag, the symbolic destruction of the legislative body, to outright seize power. Before that it was a series of breaking norms, passing laws systematically criminalizing certain groups, propaganda against them etc. How is that different from the orange mans hate of immigrants that all his supporters seem to share?
You sound like you need to relax before commenting next time.
Unlikely unless you accidently kill /injure some one and then only if the family has a lot of $ for a private prosecution.
Ideally your automation and everything else is done so you have a reproducible environment. If that is the case and you recreate the environment when you run into that 15% problem you should be recreating the problem.

Yes there were methods of doing the same thing pre containers. smoother and simpler IMO

Simplest was the ship everything in a tarball using embedded deps so everything was inclusive. Production was pointed to the latest release via a link. New release was done and you simply changed the link. Rollback was as simple as changing the link back to the previous version.
How does the landing page work (specifically the clickable demo)? iframes? (I am on mobile, can't inspect element)
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Every time I mention that Chrome is the new IE, people on HN keep saying that it is not true because IE was bad and Chrome is good.

Have these people and the google developers behind Chrome considerd that maybe they are the baddies?
The other one that bugs me the most is lack of bouncy overscroll with my trackpad. Being used to that in the rest of the OS, it feels very jarring when you scroll up to the top of a page and it abruptly jerks to a stop.
The A-10 is a relic and the areas that it can be effective in are shrinking.
Maybe to create legal precedent to go after the sectors that do?
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>I know I don’t want to turn a blind eye to what is happening, but at the same time I don’t know what else I can do except being stoic.

I've been thinking about that for a long time, and still do. I reckon the best option is having a mindful and critical attitude while doing our best to come up with alternatives. Persevering in having a constructive mindset always goes a long way.
I tell every entrepreneur that asks me for advice that the donation model for any business gets no more than 1-10% (depending on the industry) compared to a business model of selling commercial software. This is the difference between poverty and 6-figures. The open-source model is good for launching your own career, but you should avoid trying to make the career the open-source project itself.

The open-core model is a good alternative if you wish to be around open-source software. Or make your project de-facto standard and charge for consulting. Or, you can make an entirely commercial project that uses and contributes to open-source projects. That way, you are surrounded by open-source and can help them financially to add features you need.
EFF asks for DOJ efforts to break Facebook encryption to be made public
Because the 8088/8086/80286 had their own bugs, and 68K was a better architecture than x86. No segmentation, orthogonal registers and instruction sets, etc. This superiority probably peaked around the 68020, which started losing out to the 80386 the next year, and after that Motorola never quite recovered. The Pentium, which I imagine most here think of as a starting point, was really more of an endpoint in a complex battle between Intel, Motorola, NatSemi, and a whole bunch of RISC alternatives.
You could use a reusable cup.
> and if you click the + button to open a new tab the cursor ends up over the new tab, not over the + button so you can click again to open a new tab.

Same experience for me on Chrome on macOS too, so... You sure you didn't change those defaults somehow?

I usually open new tabs with Command + t or Control + t on Linux / Windows.
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You don't need a broken trillion dollar jet to combat 1970s jets. Our F16s would do that job nicely, even if the maintenance cost is high (but nothing on the scale of what the F35 costs to even operate).

You can disrupt 50s utility equipment with radio/em. You don't need a trillion dollar jet for that.

I'm just saying that we're spending money on the wrong stuff. And we're doing it in a HUGE way. There's a reason we do that, and it's not because of defense concerns...
Yeah when web apps started to take off, circa 2000 I'd say, the big selling point was the ease of deployment and update and the ability to have a single code base for multiple OS's. Also, up to that point application installation mostly consisted of going down to uber electronics store and buying a box with the app burned on a CD.

However, not too much later I found many instances of mom, pop, buddy and sis having no troubles downloading and installing apps like iTunes and, ironically, web browsers; regardless of their operating system. Also, these installed apps phoned home to keep themselves up to date.

Fast forward 10-15 years later and there's a significant increase in internet traffic but the increase is do to thick clients on mobile devices and now it's the same issues as before; how to package and deploy on multiple platforms and maintain a single code base. But the thing to not is users don't seem to mind installing and uninstalling apps if the interface they're using makes it easy.

And that brings us to present day where mobile development has pretty much ditched web apps but desktop development is still holding on to web apps. And it's rather hilarious to watch the schizophrenic evolution of web app technology over time regarding who much of the code to put on the client vs the server.

All that to say, I agree; technologies exist to build multi-platform client applications that reach back to servers for data if they need to. And I wish the whole application in a browser thing would just die and browser would return to what they were designed for, displaying hypertext.
The difference is that the US government isn't known for disappearing thousands of dissidents without trial and the president has a term limit. It's really not the same at all.
Their tours sell out instantly, they don’t need marketing scams to promote them
Vue.js is outstanding here. I spent the last weeks getting my hands dirty with Vue.js and I am quite disillusioned about the state of the ecosystem and the performance when it comes to large datasets --- compared with its competitors, notably React.js. Which is not even part of this small sample set of projects analyzed by Staltz. I wonder how it compares.
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"The results I found were shocking: there were two clearly sustainable open source projects, but the majority (more than 80%) of projects that we usually consider sustainable are actually receiving income below industry standards or even below the poverty threshold."

This is a general principal of the world. Almost everything, including customers, getting dates, and wealth follow the same pattern:
Pareto.

There's even a Bible verse:

Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them.

Matthew 13:12

May be more interesting to compare the jobs allowing open source contributions at the top of the scale.

Or put another way: comments closer to the top attract more karma than those at the bottom.
Here's the direct link to the platform: https://www.ts.today/
> Arrays are almost but not quite the same as pointers.

There's a big misunderstanding here. Arrays and pointers are entirely different things. An array is a chunk of elements that lie next to each other in memory. A pointer is just a pointer.

The only thing that C does that causes confusion is pointer decay. If you use an array in an expression context, other than the sizeof operator, that expression evaluates to a pointer to the first element of the array.

And while it's confusing the heck of many people who never learned it properly, it's very useful. For example, string literals are arrays, too! Would you prefer to write printf(&"Hello, World\n"[0])?

That's it, in a nutshell.
10,000 years isn't that short a time in a rapidly changing environment, though it would be in a static one. Human mematic evolution fed into human genetic evolution in a number of ways over that timeframe. As people started getting most of their calories from farming they didn't have as much dietary vitamin D and their skin got lighter. People in Eurasia got more resistant to contagious disease and were able to live together in larger groups, accelerating memetic evolution.

Gould came up with the excellent name "punctuated equilibrium" for the discontinuous nature of genetic change, though the math describing it had existed before he popularized the concept.

It is true, though, that all the big changes of the last 10,000 years seem to have been simple changes in individual genes or their expression rather than more complex changes.
Can you use a password instead?
It's pretty frustrating to see the discussion on this submission dominated by people litigating the "constant time" terminology. The authors, Bernstein and Yang, are using constant time in the conventional, complexity theoretic sense of the word. Here is a quote from Section 2, "Organization of this paper":

> We start with the polynomial case. Section 3 defines division steps. Section 5, relying on theorems in Section 4, states our main algorithm to compute c coefficients of the nth iterate of divstep. This takes n(c + n) simple operations. We also explain how “jumps” reduce the cost for large n to (c + n)(log cn)^2+o(1) operations. All of these algorithms take constant time, i.e., time independent of the input coefficients for any particular (n, c).

In particular note that last sentence. The asymptotic runtime of the presented algorithm does not depend on the inputs, n and c. This algorithm analysis is confirmed throughout the remainder of the paper, which walks through each stage of the algorithm. Now let's look at a few canonical definitions of "constant time", i.e. O(1).

From Skiena, we have:

Constant functions - f(n) = 1 - Such functions might measure the cost of adding two numbers, printing out the "Star Spangled Banner", or the growth realized by functions such as f(n) = min(n, 100). In the big picture, there is no dependence on the parameter n.

Likewise from Sedgewick & Wayne:

Constant. A program whose running time's order of growth is constant executes a fixed number of operations to finish its job; consequently its running time does not depend on N. Most Java operations take constant time.

I'll update if I find a choice example from Knuth in TAOCP, but I think this suffices. The discussion about whether or not the cryptographic use of the term satisfies the complexity theoretic sense of the term is a red herring; it's a distinction without a difference. Algorithm analysis focuses on asymptotic behavior, which is definitionally given by tail behavior, or rate of growth of a function. Among other things, this paper is not about an implementation methodology that ensures the GCD algorithm will take exactly the same amount of time regardless of the input.

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1. The Algorithm Design Manual, 2nd Edition, § 2.3.1 Dominance Relations, Page 39

2. Algorithms, 4th Edition, § 1.4 Analysis of Algorithms, Page 187
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They likely do. My hospital has patient handouts that cover common antibiotic resistant organisms such as MRSA, VRE, CPO etc.
The easiest way to defeat the aircraft is to cancel the program. I'd wager a lot of negative press the aircraft gets is pushed by adversaries who are scared to fight it.
Wolfgang Paul Was a Great Physicist, Not a Typo of 'Wolfgang Pauli'
Now if we can just get a courtcase similarto this one for the entire contents of the British museum and other artifacts looted by pirates like this one:https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/sep/26/westminster-ab...
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IMO, it is preferable to try growing GMOs or alternative crops than putting at risk the effectiveness of medicinal-value fungicides.
It is a shame that it has been down almost since it was posted, I see from your history that you were looking to sell the site eight months ago. Is that still the case, if not what changed?
Actual study: https://elifesciences.org/articles/45183

Seems to impact nearly all medical disciplines.. https://iiif.elifesciences.org/lax:45183%2Felife-45183-fig2-...
The most recent report shows that the pilot lost spatial awareness.
> thus couldn't give the required consent

While they weren't technically wrong, holy throwing the baby out with the bathwater, batman. This is the problem with single-issue voting.

I wonder if they have logicians on these panels. "So you want to take a person who will live...and maybe make them die...because you don't want to test on someone who will die?"
Well, who calls what's "unnecessary"?

Killing animals for their meat is not like torturing animals for no reason (which indeed would be unnecessary).

And how steep would the slope be? E.g. what about killing rodents and house pests?
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