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Agreed with this, but I suspect the problem is no one's really sure how you react to things like this. There's no centralized body or medium for "out of band" issues - it's kind of the nature of open source.

I would say it does speak to the need for community managers, but again, a difficult ask for OSS projects. Who, when, how and what powers do they have?
"Torvalds needs to tone down if he wants to dictate the majority of kernel space" isn't much of an argument, is it? I don't see how your comment regarding Pottering is any stronger.

Our attachment to Hacker News is also a bit annoying from a FOSS perspective, unless there's been some release since the suggestion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5006037 . Torvalds uses Google+. How is your comment any different from the pot calling the kettle black?
Completely on point - I don't think people realize the scale you need to achieve to make money in the credit card fee transaction business. Billions and billions are required. To me the more interesting question is who will buy them.
> However my point is I think Lennart's been so carelessly cavalier in rolling out his code, and so unapologetic about the shitstorm he started that he's gotten a lot of peoples back up. Obviously this doesn't warrant the kind of bullying that he discussed in his post; however although he doesn't deserve such attacks, he has largely brought them on himself.

That is the "look what she's wearing" argument. The victim is newer responsible for receiving such violent abuse as Pottering has.
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That's a tricky position to take, as a political habit.

The problem with defining 'worker happiness' some way is that if unhappiness entitles you to something unhappiness can be achieved. What about the happiness of those who would like to be a worker, but can't because it conflicts with existing worker happiness?

Workers are ann entrenched interest group (or even class, to borrow more Marxist language) and they are interested in maintaining the way things are. The loudest are reactionary, preferring to go back to the way things were.

The unionized factories of 2 generations ago were not the pinnacle of human civilization.
I always derided art-talk. Art history, movements, art-appreciation. I saw BS and I assumed it was BS. I now think that art is just hard and part of why it's hard is that nonsense and sense are hard to tell apart. It's not that objectivity doesn't play a role, it just requires some work in applying it. In any case, I missed out on stuff I shouldn't have missed out on. Young me's loss. Old me's gain.

One idea, that I think could be expressed as one of those movements which encompass science, art and philosophy starts with the definition of history, which basically defines history as stuff people wrote about things that happened. Prehistory is the stuff that happened before with a hundred years of commentary, nuance, various waves of correctness and such. But, arbitrary demarkations are uncomfortable. We much prefer a nice definable river or mountain range to act as our border than a straight line on a map. As definition go, history's in an interesting one. Someone writes about a guy who was the king, that's history. Someone finds bones and a fancy hat in a lavish grave, that's prehistory.

Now, by that definition we're running into some interesting hockey stick phenomenon. Our accumulation of history, via the digital record is growing f-ing vast. Vast! Google decided (independently, which is creepy but moving on) to make me a little album with dates and places of a recent trip I took. It's choice of photographs was good and so was the labeling.

So, written history with some guy or girl compiling a list of kings and laws and even daily accounts of wars and politics and money are now superseded. Written history is giving way to recorded history. Is recorded the right word? Is history? Post-history?

Back to sci-fi. Sci-fi of the 20th century was about technology. Video phones and space blimps. Alien invasions and human colonization of new worlds. Fantasies of mixed specie societies reflecting our struggles to transcend ethnicity and culture. Today's science fiction is, I believe most enlightening in describing the human response to technology. What will the world be like when tinder puts you in a virtual room with a would be friend? How do we react to real wars (as apposed to a science fiction version of romantic fantasy) in the communication age. How will it feel to be a 90 year old who can run a half marathon. What will it be like for people who can access thousands of hours of conversations their grandparents had with their parents?

These are interesting questions.
Only that the open source community is a lot larger than your local town, so it's natural that you will get more extreme cases in the fringes.

I'm quite sure the mayor of New York gets death threats on a regular basis.
If you dont want to tell your children that they are stuck with shitty-software-X.

What mrottenkolber, is stopping you from being an ambitious guy who writes non-shitty-software?

Write better tools, and software than Poettering, and leave him alone to write his.

Nobody is actually forcing you to use any of his software, no not even Redhat or any other distribution, this is free and open source software, you havent payed for anything, you are free to use whatever software you wish.

You have a problem with Poetterings software? Do not use that software.

How fucking hard is that?
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People talk about killing or maiming politicians all the time and don't end up in jail. It's only when the threats are credible that there's a problem (In Poettering's case, having a bitcoin fund for a hitman certainly constitutes this).
This. Many commentators especially in Germany are complaining about the lack of a will to innovate, yet uber is nothing new under the sun. They pretend to be part of a sharing economy, yet charge more than the fuel costs of a trip, which is the quintessential difference to ride sharing. They are simply a global taxi company with a fancy app that is trying to benefit from not being regulated by claiming to be something new - ride sharing.

They are a taxi company so should have to follow the same regulations as all the other taxi companies.
This article has no value.
Use of "Shadow Internet" term solely to increase the buzz. They are talking about ESNet (Energy Science Network), consisting of a very few end-points connected together. Comparing it to Tier 3 network is nonsense, that is like saying Tier 1 blows Tier 3 network out of the water.

The monitoring tool provided by ESNet [1] displays around 25 users, and the topping users are not even exceeding the 10 gbit mark, theoretically they would have same experience with Google Fibre as well.

[1] - http://stats1.es.net/top.html
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Wow, fundraising a hitman. That is horrible.
> much worse for members of minorities, or people from different cultural backgrounds, in particular ones where losing face is a major issue

This is true, and a huge issue. Even being white, western, between 30 and 40, but female instead of male can expose you to huge amounts of abuse. It's a big problem for people who come from cultures where people making your mistakes personal is considered extremely aggressive and offensive.

Even in international organisations with experience in this sort of thing it can be delicate to work with different cultures and expectations. Open source communities have almost no sensitivity for this - people (Linus included) seem to operate under the assumption that they have the right to say anything they like with no responsibility for how people might be affected.

No one needs to censor themselves all the time, but you have to recognize that when you work with a team or a community you have to understand and respect the people you are talking to, especially if you hold a prominent position.
I can confirm that 'womb' is a perfectly normal word here in the UK. It's no stranger than 'fortnight' or 'autumn'.
Frankly, Linus is in the right here. There's nothing constructive about the initial tone of the post being made. It is a hostile question from the outset. He goes on to explain in detail the why of the answer. It's not a flame.

To bring this back to Lennart Poettering, I'd argue this is why community issues are hard to fix: there's far too many people who are happy to use efforts to stamp out really harmful stuff (threats of violence/death, flames and spamming/harassment) to instead try and knock down a prominent figure just because. It's a distraction that ultimately makes it irrelevant, and to boot ruins any forward progress to be made.
But here's precisely the role of politics. If more workers would mean no one can make a sustenance, then maybe it's society's role to tell the newcomers, "look for something else". Or maybe it's the opposite, and when all interests are considered, it's best to let the incumbents shave a few percents off their income. But this kind of decision is exactly what politics is for. I wouldn't want to let a Silicon Valley brat with tons of VC money behind him to decide that for me in the name of "innovation" (here we're starting to see how "innovation" is being used as an instrument to restrict freedom).
Before we throw any more hate again, here's what I understand:

* Most Linux-based OSS communities (specially the kernel) market themselves as a Merry Community

* In reality, they're not, they're full of bullies who won't hesistate to call you or your mother names

* You must equally be a bully enough if you want to stand on your own

And I relate with this a lot. Bullies act like this in groups, and they always feel extremely proud and righteous of themselves, and think they're doing God's Work. But beyond all that overflowing sense of righteousness, bullying is simply, plainly, wrong.

Unfortunately, most of these Linux-based communities have grown to become bands of bullies, and they are also extremely proud of it. Such a sad situation to be in. Folks who call themselves "Freedom-loving FOSS members" behaving in polar opposite to the values that they supposedly care about. Some things are just unacceptable.
>My involvement with the kernel community ended pretty much before it even started, I never post on LKML, and haven't done in years.

Poor baby. Why is everyone so mean to him? He's western, white, straight, male, 30s-40s (really?).

> I can only imagine that it is much worse for members of minorities, or people from different cultural backgrounds, in particular ones where losing face is a major issue.

Speaks for itself.
My student newspaper has written about the Moser couple and their research several times [1][2]. It's in Norwegian, though, so not sure how much of use it is to share (edit: apparently we have an English version of the second article, see response to this post).

Does anyone have good resources about their research for a layman? Most international articles I've found contain very little other than the same stuff in this press release.

[1]: http://dusken.no/artikkel/24478/ett-kart-for-alle-rom/
[2]: http://dusken.no/artikkel/22614/hjernefamilie/
I hope this is useful - there's a lot of documentation on systemd etc but I haven't found anything specifically focused on node developers before.

If there's anything that needs correcting give me a shout and I'll update it.
You stop writing code for a 'week'. Don't 'touch' the codebase during that time. Come back after that duration has passed, re-discover the code and write the documentation then.
>Go to your local town hall and threaten to kill the mayor because you don't like his opinions/work.

Have you ever lived in a small town? This is what we call Tuesday evening at the local bar. Until they start buying bullets people threatening to kill you are to murder as people telling threatening to fuck you are to rape.
Why don't you brew your own then? http://diy.soylent.me/
I know nothing about this man, so I decided to look him up...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennart_Poettering#Controversi...

"The "Poettering effect" is now sometimes used as a negative term for presumed damage his mindset is doing to opensource communities."

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.sys.raspberry-pi/...

I guess there's two sides to every story...

What a strange situation.
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But clearly the issue here is not compensation for the workers. The issue is cost of license. Consider this hypothetical:

1. Country A - taxi license costs $300,000. Average ride costs $30, driver keeps $10 after paying off the license mortgage.

2. Country B - taxi license costs $100. Average ride costs $15, driver keeps $15 since he doesn't have to pay it off.
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In Barcelona there is someone taking care of the queue always (I think if a taxi driver allowed clients without due respect to the queue he'd lose airport access rights, so lose a lot of money), and the price for airport-City centre is written in the windows so you see it before entering (and also seen in the inside, it's a fixed price with minor variability depending on day of the week) So, from what I've seen here it's unlikely I'll be taking taxis in Madrid, but will keep using Barcelona taxis when I need them.
Especially in teams, one thing I've found that helps in documentation is standards and templates. If everyone knows exactly what to document, how to document it, and where the documentation lives then it's much more likely to get done and done well.

Start with a minimal set of standards and templates and build up, rather than over-engineering and not getting anything done.
I don't see what the problem is. In Spain the rule is that you need a taxi license to be a taxi driver or you'll get fined. Uber pretending they don't need one is bullshit.
When I took a taxi in barcelona the taxi driver held my luggage hostage and insisted on a flat fee instead of the meter when we arrived at the destination. I had no working mobile phone so there was not much I could do but pay him.

An anecdote but I doubt it's the only time that happened.
Well, the "western, white, straight, male, blah, blah" rhetoric should at least bring out some pavlovian support these days. Maybe it's time to replace Linus as BDFL, and this could be a fine tactic too.

I stopped caring so long ago that I wasn't even hit by pulseaudio, so both Lennart and Mr. Drepper have my sympathy and support, as long as they keep to Linux (thankyouverymuch).
Perhaps this? http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/30/science/may-britt-and-edva...

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But notice that's all technical in nature--what he's discussing is abuse and harassment. I don't know a lot about the context, but if he's right, those are very different things--not really two sides at all.
Doesn't Uber use considerably nicer cars than any other taxi service? When I get an Uber in London it's a very new and clean spacious black car, not your standard taxi. And the drivers are far more polite (they don't try to ask me about football for example).
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When people talk about 'heavy regulation', they don't usually specify what regulations they are actually talking about. In Germany for example, Uber is in trouble because they are not ensuring that their drivers are insured (a normal private car insurance won't cover commercial operation) and not ensuring that the vehicles have the required level of mechanical safety checks (commercial vehicles require more regular tests because they do far more miles).

When you peel away the vague and emotive language of 'heavy regulation' to look at the actual issues then suddenly things look quite different.

Hands up who on HN thinks filling our roads with uninsured drivers is a good thing? Hands up who thinks mandatory checks on vehicles brakes and other basic safety systems is a bad thing? I think I see pg's hand at the back there. But in general the vast vast majority of people think mandatory insurance is a good idea. That's why nearly all developed countries require it by law.

Uber don't want to actually come out and say 'our drivers are not insured', but make no mistake, thats the kind of thing Uber and SV VCs are talking about when they complain about 'red tape' and 'regulation' and 'lack of entrepreneurial spirit'. Ignoring insurance laws makes it easier for them to undercut law abiding and sociably responsible competitors, and they want to continue to get away with it.
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>What mrottenkolber, is stopping you from being an ambitious guy who writes non-shitty-software?

>Write better tools, and software than Poettering, and leave him alone to write his.

The general perception is that Poetterig is able to push his software thanks to his position at Red Hat instead of its technical merits.
I use mailgun for that - it's easy to set up a catch-all on some unused domain to forward to your email address. Free for <10,000 mails per month.
Your link repeats again and again (and again) that his criticisms only apply to password storage. In his own words "as a Key Derivation Function, it is still very much useful and secure".

As GP said, Android uses it as a disk encryption KDF.
Nothing like a good old cherry-picked fiery comment out of the thousands of public messages Torvalds posts. Not to mention that you've sizably mischaracterised the 'meat' of his argument - which I find more offensive than hearing someone called 'full of BS' followed by an explanation.
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All the BSD's have a "centralized" userspace, I wonder why they haven't recieved any flak and death threats.

This is what systemd essentially is, an attempt to have a standardised minimal base OS beyond the Linux kernel (again like the BSD's), I don't see how it's 'highly political', if anything it's practical, which in turn is why it has been widely accepted by distros and software which makes use of it's features, like DE's.
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Documentation can end up sucking up a large amount of your time. It's also very easy for documentation to get out of date.

It's therefore useful to tie your documentation to the code itself:

1. Generate documentation from the code where appropriate.

2. Automatically test examples in your documentation each time you regenerate it.
It's hardly an OSS problem though. It's practically a "western society and the internet" problem. Death threats are probably less common now then they were in the early anonymity days of the net, but conversely they're a lot less mundane.

But this a problem which turns up in every community where there are politicized issues. See: anything to do with women talking about video games.

We can take this problem even wider and start looking at say, American domestic politics and it's infatuation with "second amendment solutions". It's apparently socially acceptable to drop that phrase when discussing elections, policy and the president when you're a state or federal representative. Locally in Australia we've got an entire political party that carefully fans the flames of almost but not quite encouraging violence and intolerance.

You can certainly improve things at a community-by-community level, and OSS definitely should try to do so (and there should be support to do so in sensible, constructive ways). But this is a problem which goes a lot further then software development.
The authorities wouldn't need to be successful very often. So long as there's a possibility of a large fine the number of drivers would start to fall. If it falls to a level where getting an Uber car takes too long the customers will leave, and then Uber withdraw because they aren't making any money if there aren't any customers.

If 1% of Uber drivers are fined leads to 50% of drivers being scared away that could be enough to stop Uber completely.
Yes, of course they are a taxi company and they are playing a game of words in pretending not to be.

The reason that they do so is that the licensing rules for taxis protect the incumbents from new entrants.
The structure of the arrangement between taxi companies and the government is different in each area, and is subject both to particular deals struck (and I don't mean that in a bad way, though sometimes it is) and to whatever extra safety procedures the government wants to enforce. For example, a country should be free to require an expensive insurance from taxi drivers, as well as background checks as means to preventing future costs, or as part of a deal. Thing is,	Travis Kalanick and his ilk are trying to restrict our freedom to choose what's right for our community, as if there's only one way to run an economy, and as if they know what it is.
We had a class like this at my school (LTH in Sweden) and it was probably the most enlightening school experience I've had.

We started the first week with a handful of diodes and resistors building latches, and slowly built an adder, memory, a calculator and by the end eventually ended up with a programmable traffic light computer.

They were also phasing in FPGAs in the education so you could pick between breadboarding everything or doing it in software with an FPGA or even a mix. Very very fun.
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But isn't it a little fake?

e.g. form validation: In the examples i see, the client did not have any validation code, it sends the raw data to the server, which validates and respond to to the client. So the client did not use the same code.
I am from a small town. I am not from _your_ small town.
then maybe it's society's role to tell the newcomers, "look for something else"

On the other hand, there's almost 5 million people in Spain "looking for something else". Many of whom have already exhausted their unemployment benefits.
That might be the case in the US, but not everywhere.
>The general perception...

Based upon what anecdotal evidence is that the 'general perception' ?

And furthermore how on earth would he be able to 'push this software' just because he works at Red Hat ?
Since there are hundreds of companies there are all sorts of cars. Uber does have the best cars in its price range (standard taxi prices) though. You can always get a black 7-series from a company other than Uber, but you are probably being ripped off since standard taxicos run more standard (such as e-class or v70) cars.
>What mrottenkolber, is stopping you from being an ambitious guy who writes non-shitty-software?

Yeah. And he should also personally fix global warming and create world peace. Otherwise he has like, no right to complain.
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A lot of the ipods were overpriced and underfeatured. They were shiny, but didn't always work as well as competitors. I once bought a video ipod - that was a mistake. And no radio? Crazy.
The councils(not the goverment) sell/auctions a tiny fraction of licenses. There's a secondary market where license owners sell them, usually when they retire.
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I donated before, in the hope that the visual synchronisation between left and right panel would improve (select something right, and it gets selected in the source left). Unfortunately, nothing happened within a year.