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Maybe your question should be more specific. What use case do you have for this project that you believe might be inconvenienced by GPL?

Without that, it sounds like you’re spreading FUD about GPL.
My understanding is that having crappy latch design is incomparable to intentionally frying hard drives with taser.
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Hey HN,

I made an algorithm for predicting professional golf for my data science thesis and have been working on it since. The link is to the results of the latest version of the algorithm, you can click on the graphs to see what the forecast for an individual event looks like e.g.: https://www.golfforecast.co.uk/ProfitTable?eventId=4901

I'm super proud of the product but I've struggled with marketing and making it easy enough for the layman to use/understand so would love some feedback!
> Also, I'm generally bothered by comments like this one that stir up the general human tendency toward xenophobia.

Most countries cooperate internationally in getting bad actors from hackers over pirates to pedos booted off the Internet and into jail.

The exceptions are China and Russia who won't do anything against any bad actor and India which is a big base for phone scams (as is Turkey for the European Union, but even Erdogan's regime is cooperating with EU police in taking down scammers).

I agree, the line between demanding at least some sort of common decency standards and xenophobia is thin in these days, but we have to get everyone on board to protect everyone else from rampant abuse.
For example, your previous comment was more useful to me than her entire article. It educated me about things I didn't know about.
This goes in an infinite loop now.
According to Google his net worth is $150 million, so that is 0.1% of Bezos, and he owns 0 powerful companies to Bezos' 3. Not remotely in the same league.
This article was light on details of what this flight entails. Here is a better source [1]:

> Zero-G will begin from the third minute into flight, and then at some point between and the flight’s highest point, or apogee, at four minutes, Bezos and the others onboard will officially pass into space. Gravity will return at approximately six minutes post-launch, with the parachutes deploying at nine minutes, and finally a landing at around 10 minutes after takeoff.

So this is a 10 minute flight with 2 minutes of zero G.

It came as a surprise to me to learn that Blue Origin was founded in 2000 and SpaceX was founded in _2002_. SpaceX recently celebrated 100 successful Falcon 9 launches _in a row_. It's fair to say that Blue Origin at this point has... under-delivered.

I can't find a definitive list of commercial launches (which, presumably, would be for New Shepherd) but it seems to be a handful at best. And just how many billions has Bezos poured into this?

I do wonder if Bezos's retirement as Amazon CEO will lead him to taking a more active role in Blue Origin going forward. This flight is probably meant to bring attention to the company and maybe put the pressure on. It seems like quite a risk though for something still so relatively unproven. I mean Musk hasn't gone up on a SpaceX launch yet. To be fair, his contract with Tesla probably forbids it (as, I suspect, Bezos's with Amazon does as well).

Oh and to anyone commenting on billionaires flexing at each other and otherwise competing this is nothing new. I suggest you look back at the history of Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller and JP Morgan (to name a few). This is nothing new.

[1]: https://www.slashgear.com/jeff-bezos-is-going-to-space-07676...
It's still shockingly wrong.
>Elon Musk has promised to eventually fuel Starship with synthetic "green" methane.

Just so I can pencil this on my calendar, where does this fit on the timeline relative to full self-driving and the hyperloop?
You know, there’s a striking parallel between the passive income mentality and the “personal is political” self-actualization ethos of the 60’s counterculture. The counterculture was never really a political movement; it was all about freedom to become ones true self by flaunting the rules of society and engaging in all sorts of impulsive behavior. It was all about the deification of the sacred self. That’s why it transitioned so smoothly into the ayn rand capitalism of the 80’s and 90’s.

In that sense there’s not much open air separating Tim Ferris and Timothy Leary. Both were encouraging their followers to drop out of society in order to turn inward in search of their private, individual nirvana, separated from the real world around them, full of people doing the hard, boring work of keeping things going. Both are pied pipers though in that the vast majority of their followers will not achieve the self-liberation they crave.
This made me think of how many developers (who spend 10 hrs/day in front of their screen) choose Apples products. A linux machine might be better on performance, maintainance, and all that, but Linux does not care about UX the way Apple does.
> If we talk about revolution we could take a look at the French one and see how things can turn up.

It's never a mistake to get rid of hereditary monarchs.
Sure and so would a penny.

Suppose you want your investment portfolio to return 7% a year.

If it has $2,000,000 you have enough cash on cash return to live off. Enough cash on cash return that you might make maintaining your portfolio a full time job.

It's just as much work to get 7% returns on a penny (or $20k) but the cash on cash returns are not enough to make it worth working as a full time job.

Now suppose you $200,000,000. You can buy profitable businesses. You can pay someone else to run them from the cash on cash returns.

With $20,000,000,000 you can pay a team with cash on cash rounding error to figure out how to engineer the system so that small investors usually lose. So that they only win via statistical unlikelihood...aka "dumb luck."

Big money doesn't invest in the same way. Ted Turner had enough money to buy a TV station with the Atlanta Braves thrown in to sweeten the pot. $20k is not that kind of money.
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No, he wouldn't. He ain't a billionaire with significant portions of the economy at his service.
Not keeping track of serial numbers?
The DMCA is the least of your worries. The EPA has figured out that the only only reason people actually want to update software on their tractors is to turn off emissions controls.
For javascript packages, npm lists which other packages which depend on any given package, and how many times a package was downloaded in the last week. That gives you a rough sense of usage, but it can also be super mysterious.

As an example, here's a package I wrote which I haven't touched in 3 years: https://www.npmjs.com/package/jumprope

There are no projects on npm which depend on this, and yet it gets downloaded about 3000 times per week. Who's using it? I have no idea. Are they running into any problems? I suppose not, I mean, there aren't any issues on github. Its kinda spooky.
The more common name for this is Anarco Capitalism. Or ancap. It’s somewhat of a meme on the internet because of how absurd situations become with no government or central police force.
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It seems there have been quite a few fines like this recently, anyone have a running tally. I mean sure, it's only 0.4% of a quarter's revenue, but if your total fines is coming up on 4% of a quarter's revenue that might start to look like a warning - especially as you haven't started getting into real hefty gdpr fines yet.
> Tim recently addressed this exact argument with "my books are not for everyone"

That isn't a counter-argument to the criticism of the 4-Hour Work Week book. It feels like a cop-out on the part of Ferris.

In the 4-Hour Work Week, Ferris offers the advice that outsourcing tedious or menial tasks to economically poor countries allows you to reach your 4-hour work goal (the presumption being that you reside in a economically rich country that allows you to outsource to a cheaper country).

Disclaimer: I'm in the camp of readers who dislike the 4-Hour Work Week. Not just for the central premise of the book (outsource cheaply), but also for the excessively wordy style of writing that pads out the book.
> Now suppose we could have an alternative version of that tool, written by a skilled developer using a more performance-oriented language, and placing greater emphasis on runtime performance even if it means sacrificing some readability in the source code.

I'm just not sure that's a decision that we often have to make. Is more performant code most of the time also less readable? What about still using JavaScript, still having readable code and getting the execution time to 1-2s?

Also, using another language is probably never the issue except its some weird rarely used language.

But given your scenario: what if changing to the other language and the less readable code keeps other developers from extending the tool, writing plugins and stuff? So what if you have to give up all those contributions from other people?
Sometimes I feel like someone else is paying for my 40-60 hour work week. A bunch of people far poorer than myself are working 80-120 hours to mine rare Earths, assemble electronics, stitch clothes, dig coal, and so on, so that I can live in relative-to-them luxury. Not only do I work only 40-60 hours a week but it's indoors, in air conditioning, doing work that is largely interesting and not very dangerous. I even have time to punctuate it by posting shit like this.

The four hour work week is bullshit but it's just the snake oil we all consume distilled to greater purity. I'm sipping wine while Ferriss is selling 150 proof fire water.

You enter the global upper middle class already primed for a shot at being part of the global rich by simply being born in the developed world.

https://money.cnn.com/interactive/news/economy/davos/global-...

(There are several global wage calculators online. I use them whenever I start pitying myself.)
No, you're assuming a flat VAT on everything. The solution to that is adjust what and how much of a VAT is applied, e.g. staples like diapers, period products, etc. perhaps have a 0% tax, and then you could say put an 80% VAT on advertising.
Perhaps they are not able to move the lever as much as russian oligarchs, but both have some levers to pull.
Yeah and that’s why I added the caveat that these aren’t exclusive to a PO. And I’m sure there are differences at every org. I’m a senior at a small org and _before_ we had a PO I did do all that stuff. Now that we have a PO I only do that sort of thing internally with our team when we are planning and prioritizing our work for other groups. The farthest up I ever sell have to sell an idea is my own Director and I love it.
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Insects are one of the most successful kinds of creature on the planet.
Sounds like you've got some ideas. That's cool. Take a risk and try to run with some of your ideas. Maybe you can help them grow legs.

You could just leave it up to somebody else to solve, but if you've got viable ideas, give it a shot.
Thanks. I would like to see more concatenative pauses as well, so don’t be discouraged from creating your own.

To be honest, I chose Rust because it was the most performant imperative language I know, not so much for its memory safety. I chose to transpile instead of generating LLVM because I wanted to focus on the frontend and type system more than the backend, and LLVM felt like it would get in the way more than enable it.
Still a government handout to private corporation.
You have a 40+ hour workweek, until you put in enough intelligently focused 80 hour work weeks coupled with some dumb luck, to possibly arrive at anything resembling a 4 hour workweek.

I'm really tired of seeing online 'equality' warriors think entrepreneurship is easy and should be used to pay for all of society's financial hardships; entrepreneurship is a significant toll that can cause financial ruin and mental instability just to have a chance at arriving at any sort of time liberation.

When you create something you place your own time, finances, energy at risk - in many cases you get a low ROI in return. But like all educations, one can get better and improve over time.

One must vision the system, design the system, find ways to finance the system, execute the system, manage the system, and optimize the processes. Then possibly, you might be able to receive benefits from that system - but it is in no way guaranteed.

So don't pity the founder, but don't denigrate them either; actions taken on own volition mean founders must enjoy or live with the outcomes.
> It has a few potentially interesting parts about work life balance, but the majority of it is self-help pipe dreams.

Yup, I had the same feeling when I got myself a 2nd hand copy years ago.

It's mostly a bragging book, where the author suggests trying and replicating his lifestyle.

If anything, one might pull out some quotes about work-life balances, but then again, if that's the game, there are better books about that stuff.
The businesses who are crying about not being able to find labor are the ones failing to deal with reality. They either need to pay more to secure labor or fail.

I believe we're currently at 5.8% unemployment for May 2021, down from around 15% during the pandemic.
“Willy waving contest” is long over and, ironically, SpaceX’s Gwynne Shotwell is the winner.

She’s a super hero in my book. Musk had the dream but she’s turning it into reality which is the hard part.
Is there any way to tap this hdd sensors data on linux? I remember there were some apps on windows that read these hdd sensors data and use them as accelerometer / gyro, which was pretty neat when run on a laptop (this was when iBeer and virtual lighter apps were still a hot thing).
I thought the same, hope hes keeping well.
Here in Portugal the public workers already have a 35 hour week, but workers from the private sector can't.

I hear people saying "tax the rich" and all other bs... it doesn't work, taxation doesn't actually solve the problem and the lower classes always endup paying all those taxes on way or another, either by having smaller wages or paying more for the products.

We need to find real solutions for these problems since nowadays I feel like people are working harder than in the XX century and having less wages.
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Try to care less about what other people want. It's your project, not theirs. Also, there will always be someone who wants another feature. always. It never stops. So, i'd recommend only doing the features you personally want and tell the others: no thanks.

Side note, there are alot of manipulative people on the internet that dont have the skills to create something, and they will try to say certain things to you, so you would create the things they want. And they may act like they care about your project, but they dont, they just care about themselfs, and then on monday they tell their boss, look, i created this new feature. It's sad, but i've met people like that.
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What I loved about Half-life demo-- it was a completely new level not in the original game--but it still had all the main things that made the game fun (aliens, marines, puzzles etc).

For music -- I guess you do need a killer opening, as people will change the channel (or click away) (unless you are already very famous).
There are many similar features such as:
a) The ability to fetch & merge data from multiple data sources
b) Widgets such as tables, charts & forms

The goal is to build more connectors and widgets while ignoring features that will not makes sense for majority of the users. Example of a feature that's intentionally left out (for now) is the schema browser for databases.

Also, thanks for pointing out the typo, fixed it :)
I think this post was fair in 2009, where there was no serious discussions (specifically in the US, certainly many parallels in Europe) over a second civil war or balkanization, a growing Marxist movement, etc. But, times have changed dramatically. To some degree people have to “pick a side”, and it may be to a greater degree in the coming decades. Instability looks inevitable. In other words, being “open-minded” and a “free-thinker” is beginning to seem like a whimsical privilege of the fading Pax Americana.
Even after having a Master's in CS, I never pursued a career in software development but worked as a business consultant in ERP (SAP) implementation. So maybe I am not qualified for an opinion. Before that I programmed a lot in Assembler, and later C, learned and programmed Prolog and LISP, later for side projects I used PHP, Perl or Bash. I occasionally program ABAP for my work.

I really enjoyd LISP. I liked C for it's roughness.

In many ways I believe ABAP is one of the most misunderstood und underestimated language in this list. SAP, which uses ABAP as codebase, is a integrated software system based on >500k database tables, has >5.5 M programs and about 100k "Apps", all within the same system and available on your fingertips. You have dozens of programs working in parallel on the codebase.

In ABAP you have header files, no manifests, no dependencies, no git, no malloc, no gc, no lambdas, no promises, on monads, no clojures and until recently no pointers. Never missed anything of it. The type definitions are stored on the database. You temporal sturctures tables instead of arrays. SQL statements are natively embedded in the language. It supports native rollback an commit functions. The debugger is a dream.

You can understand programming in the most simple way: Processing of data. Development times are short due to the simplicity of the concept.

But the main point is: In spite of it enormous size the system is simple and easily maintainable. Even I as not being a professional programmer have no issue to understand some 30 year old programming code without documentation.

ABAP is procedural.
> accusations that I didnt read anything

> accusations of fanboy

Not only did I read this weak attempt to pass of petty gripes as brave political stances, but I've read the author's other petty stances, too.

https://jessicalexicus.medium.com/nobody-will-ever-give-a-fl...

What a delightful screed. I really enjoy it's mask-off partisan nonsense, her dedication to single-issue fixation, and her ability to shoehorn that issue into any context she can conceive of.

A real wordsmith.... who is just shoehorning her gripes using the exact tactic I described above. Maybe Teen Vogue can snap up this shining star before she starts her own Substack

Incoming fangirl downvoting in 3, 2, 1...
Please do realize that if your project ever ends up under source code management, reading diffs and merging changes may cause headaches for anyone who wishes to contribute to your code. SCM and liberal use of code reformatting tools usually don't mix well, unless you're very careful while configuring them.
That's someone subcontracting, a bit different to Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic saying "buy a ticket here"
Tasers aren’t really firearms. Also I’m guessing this was more of a stun gun anyway.
But them issuing their own cryptocurrency is very different from adopting Bitcoin, is it not?
That's a different program.
And that $10B (actually $6B, and even that $6B will be split among 4 companies) hasn't actually been awarded.
Jeff has put $9B of his own money to Blue Origin so far.
I meant that 21 megatons is big enough to be among what the USA and USSR would have called their biggest H-bombs.

(megaton, to be clear, is not a measure of mass when talking about bombs, it's a measure of energy released - a 1 megaton bomb is equivalent to the energy released by a million tons of TNT, if such a volume could be detonated)
My impression is that the idea that the market average beats most strategies in the long term hides the fact that some strategies perform horribly, and some perform great in the long term, but many of the strategies that perform horribly look good in the short term, and distinguishing between the strategies that are attractive in the short term but horrible in the longer term, and those strategies that perform well in the longer term is a very hard problem.

Of course, this might be a rationalization of me not wanting to spend the time and effort to construct an effective trading strategy.
IANAL but wikipedia says that you just need some sort of gain, not necessarily financial benefit. Warranty service entitles you to replacement only if it's broken, not when you feel like it. In that aspect you are gaining, since you're potentially getting a replacement you're not entitled to.
Winamp 5.0 worked on a 400 mhz Pentium II with 64 MB of memory (total) and was crazy responsive, while also being capable of much more than the modern Spotify app
This isn't true. Websites can cache themselves for offline use.
No Linux can be a very good multimedia system.
Are you suggesting $1.8M for expansion of Starlink to deliver broadband to rural America is not a net win? As someone in the midwest US, Starlink is the first realistic opportunity for many people I know to access broadband internet. My mother-in-law has had to teach from home all year using her cellphone as a hotspot because that's the best internet she could get no matter how much she payed.
Can someone explain to me the point of having a law that says "if you do this bad thing and we find you guilty, we'll fine you a tiny fraction of what you made from doing that thing"?

There is no disincentive from what I can see...
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8-10 hours a day :)
Using Tabler for builiding the user interface helped me speed up the development.
You can possibly find some users in Github: https://github.com/search?q=jumprope+filename%3Apackage.json...
What about gains from allegedly manipulating those cryptos up? Are those universally good for humanity?
Are you missing the point where there’s a law on the books but some people don’t care? Say you get rid of the Indiana, then they’ll get there guns elsewhere. The problem is not the guns
Or, if you can't give the dev some money, or a thank-you, fix it yourself. I think that's supposed to be the point of open source.
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