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What diseconomies of scale do you mean? If you mean that demand is low right now and so there is no economy of scale yet, that's hardly evidence against a gradual market takeover. That's what investors and early adopters are for, see: SSDs. If you really do mean diseconomy of scale, where unit price will rise with the number of units produced, what would produce such an effect in the SRAM market? Chip fab is almost always in the opposite regime, what's so unique about SRAM?

Also, I looked up RLDRAM [1] and it looks like their "low" latencies are still 10ns, which is good for DRAM but abysmal in comparison to SRAM.

[1] http://www.micron.com/products/dram/rldram-memory/1_15Gb#/
Banks have an obligation to report suspicious activity, and many will cut you off if they see a pattern or trend that could be suspicious to reduce risk.

The governor of New York's prostitution habit was discovered a few years ago when a bank risk guy flagged money transfers from his account.
"the interviewer's demeanor turned sour"

Weird. I haven't worked in a team where people used the command line for bread-and-butter source control since 1996 or so. IME it's harder (not impossible, but harder) to screw things up with fat fingers using a GUI, and pretty much every time you use SCM you're going to want a good diff view anyway. (We tend to do basic paired code review at commit time.)

It's kind of tragic; I don't think anyone would describe the git UI in flattering terms, but now that it's become a 'pons asinorum' for geek machismo it's almost impossible to replace it.

And I agree, SourceTree is lovely.
I think he should start a US nonprofit, or even better start cooperating with an international one, as that would allow people to deduct donations from their income. It's a lot easier to donate if you know that otherwise 30%-50% of that would go to the ever hungry state...

edit: It turns out every EU citizen can deduct a donation to GnuPG from their incomes!

https://www.wauland.de/en/donation.html#61
Seems odd that the MANY projects dependent on GPG don't donate enough to GPG to employ one guy.

Do Free Software project with funding 'pay it forward' to the volunteers on other projects they heavily depend on? (I don't really know) If not, they deserve to suffer the consequences.
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I like his office setup. Dual monitors, raised base for monitors, plexo? lamp, white board, real keyboard.
All of the Watson services are free in beta. (Bluemix, through which the services are accessed, requires a credit card after 30 days, but doesn't charge you for use of the beta Watson services.)

We wanted to get the services into peoples hands early, even though we're still working on them, rather than wait until we had a perfect product. There's a tradeoff here, but we figure that we can improve the services faster and better with public usage and feedback than we could in private isolation.

Since they're free, hopefully people will be able to have some fun playing around with the services, also!
It's a library that talks through the shell. I was kinda disappointed when I learned that. But it may be on purpose, as someone else mentioned.

I've used it while making bindings for it for my Scheme project: https://github.com/cslarsen/mickey-scheme/tree/master/lib/op...
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You are using Ubuntu, I see from your profile.
How much have you paid them?

This is how the stories goes: we haven't figured out
how to make good work worthwhile.

Perhaps we can learn something from our vast experience in profitably peddling shit?
Certainly some of it can be done with just algebra, but general classical mechanics requires the calculus. E.g. distance -> speed -> acceleration -> jerk (why flooring the accelerator of a car can be so much fun).

Or let's use Newton's infamous apple. We say that gravity exerts a force of kd/t^2 (in MKS 9.8 m/s^2), but to describe the motion of the apple....

If you want I can grab my copy of University Physics, skim it and go into more detail about what can and can't be done with just algebra.
Then how do you want to keep track of your votes and polls if you don't have a user account.
IAAL.

I'll cover money laundering first since it seems to get so often repeated here:

No, exchanging bitcoin for cash, or vice versa, is not in and of itself money laundering. Replace "bitcoin" with "casino chips". Is every casino in Vegas behind bars? No. Why not? Because there was no intent to launder, only an intent to exchange value for value.

Secondly, the concern over bitcoin dealing being a Money Services Business (MSB) is a little more legitimate. IIRC, FinCEN has already stated that these sorts of businesses are MSBs, and require all the usual compliance measures attached to that label. There are also some states that consider bitcoin trading businesses MSBs as well, on the state level. On a practical level though, hardly anyone is enforcing these rules. Does that mean there's no risk? No, of course not; there's definitely a risk. It's just not currently that large of a risk.

Lastly, with regards to unreported income, that's an issue with any income, regardless of source. If a stranger handed you $10 out of nowhere, that's income and you're required to report it. Hell, if you sold some crack to that stranger in exchange for those $10, you're required to report it. Unreported income is not a bitcoin specific concern.
Last year's Lang.NEXT conference had Stroustrup, Pike, some ES6 devs, and Rust devs (among many others). I really enjoyed it.

Hoping it happens again; seems like it's every two years.
Just quit after the deal goes through.

You are not a slave.
That would be node-gecko (if it existed), wouldn't it? But yes, it's a bit misleading, by node-firefox I was expecting the full blown browser written in javascript myself.
Economists also thought stagflation was impossible before the USA in the late 70s.
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It sounds like you're putting the bait out so somebody will disagree with you and then you'll explain the alternative to using identity as a form of authorization.

Can you save us a long and stupid discussion and simply explain your plan to practically deploy a better authorization system that will cost many orders of magnitude less?
It is unconscionable that a service like this is served over plain, unsecured HTTP. How do I know that the 42 i'm getting is genuine?
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GnuPG sounds like a prime candidate for Linux Foundation's core infrastructure initiative. http://www.linuxfoundation.org/programs/core-infrastructure-...

If they're willing to fund a new NTP implementation then they should be able to drop a few coins in the GnuPG bucket too
> Sadly, it doesn't seem to be happening this way. I don't understand why not.

In at least one case it's because a single open source contributor with an ideological conflict with App Stores was able to get an app removed:

http://www.tuaw.com/2011/01/08/vlc-app-removed-from-app-stor...
There's a lot of guilting people into taking bad deals in startups. At least that's my experience.

I've seen it happen numerous times, and experienced it.
His point stands though. GPG never caught on as a commercial product or something that people would pay for. Both are Open Source, that's not the issue.
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I'm in the process of getting Anthem to pay for my credit monitoring now. If you're in the same boat of not wanting to wait for a snail mail letter, call 1-877-263-7995 and escalate twice.
The question is the wrong one. The better question is: why does so much software choose to depend on an underfunded library?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/US_Solar_... (From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_the_United_State... )

There are issues with transmission and storage, but I'm seeing a pretty comforting trend on the solar side of things.
I had not thought to do that! Will pack the iPod and some candles!
Hope we start experimenting with this in the US also. Maybe at a state level.
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The problem boils down to "Really I am better at programming than this business stuff.".

Someone with his talent and expertise should have no problem with getting highly paid consulting gigs. Then he could continue working on GPG in his free time and even use the consulting income for hiring additional programmers to work on GPG. There are quite a few product-based businesses that could be built upon GPG as well (secure email, corporate communication tools, some kind of public-key-based social network come to mind ...). These could be used to support the continued development of GPG itself.

It's of course not as easy as it sounds. Not everybody wants to deal with 'all that business stuff' and that's fine but then by all means find someone who can help you with that part. If you want to change the world sometimes idealism alone just isn't enough. You also have to proactively deal with the everyday stuff like where the cashflow for paying the bills will come from next month.

There's also a problem with the purism put forth by some of the 'free as in freedom' enthusiasts, most notably Richard Stallman, who seem to gloss over the fact that coders have to make a living, too or who even frown upon making money with software altogether. Software eats the world but even RMS can't eat software.

How many successful larger companies come to mind whose business model is based upon open source? Red Hat, Ubuntu and that's about it. If we truly want to avoid dilemmas like this one we also need to think about how to successfully implement sustainable open source business models.
Or some thing like node-js but using SpiderMonkey instead of V8. Name really does not fit and blows up expectations. node-firefox-simulator would be more apt.
Not only that, but Proxy has been implemented in Firefox for a while†. I remember having played with it a long time ago.

†: Since Firefox 18 according to the MDN: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/JavaScript/Referen...
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Can't promise its pretty but: https://github.com/JWally/jsLPSolver
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I wish there was a sort of "Patreon for open source" nonprofit service where I can support projects like GnuPG, OpenBSD, etc all in one place.
I freely confess to being flabbergasted by these displays
of less-than-rigorous thought processes.

How would a free software project 'pay it forward'?

They are in a very similar position, aren't they?

Edit: For some reason, I can't reply to child comments (probably a cool-off time-out at work?).

Just a short note here, then: $1.25e6 for the FSF translates
to 10 developers like Koch being paid (the donation page quotes "120000 EUR").

That's ten. For the whole FSF. As an example of a well-funded project.
I'm not going to comment on that. HN would rightly give me months of cool-off time.
Just donate, for christ's sake
Making people pay for software might still be evil, but supporting software with teaching how to use it, documenting it, publishing books about it, making conferences, supporting it is what I think is a reasonable way for oss spirited souls to make money.

SQLite comes as an example - while completely free, public-domain, what might (I don't know for sure) be making money for the three people behind it is the extensive test suite, various other extensions (compression, security) and possibly support/integration/customizations for specific needs (less memory/cpu usage, or who knows what..)

I'm also amazed at Mike Pall's luajit's effort, and he keeps his sponsors page here: http://luajit.org/sponsors.html

I've never used directly GPG, but since I'm debian/ubuntu user I've donated money after reading one of the posts here.
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Now that certainly is useful, and I'm forever grateful for the 8th grade teacher who was also the middle school's assistant principal who taught me that (and who's younger brother did a good job with general chemistry in high school).

But echoing the general discussion, he was not able to convince the high school placement drones that I was ready for biology, so if not for a great Algebra I teacher I would have totally stagnated in 9th grade, and it was generally grim since I'd correctly realized in 1st grade my calling was science and was learning absolutely none of it that year (1974-5 academic year, the ARPANET was 5 years old with 46 IMPs on it (Interface Message Processors; they could support multiple computers, but few sites had more than 1-2).

Continuing, OK, now you know the scientific method. How far can you take that without math? How many of today's big scientific public policy issues require a fair amount of math (and physics) to really think about?
Where true basic income differs from this experiment by Canada is that true basic income should be for every adult, regardless of income, race, marital status, sexuality, etc. Not just for poor people, as with Mincome in this Canadian town.

A few arguments for:

1) It becomes a defacto emergency lifeline when a ostensibly middle class person loses their job or suffers an extremely expensive illness. In the US, it can take forever to get on disability. With true basic income, there's no need to worry about getting on disability, since you already have a basic income (and yes, this means that disability should be eliminated if this passes).

2) It becomes much less expensive to administer. No massive bureaucracy started up and growing larger just to weed out candidates for some shitty benefit. You're an adult person? Great, you're in!

3) When everyone gets it, it's much more politically feasible to start and maintain. No more questions of "them" doing this or "they" ripping off the hard working man.

4) It allows even healthy middle class people to take risks that might have a big payoff, such as starting up a new business, or embarking on a quest to invent some new technique. Or build an open source project!
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Are you familiar with an immensely super-linear cost scaling in the # of transistors vs DRAM or are you quoting a cost figure for putting SRAM on the CPU die?

If you put DRAM on the CPU die I would also expect it to cost hundreds per GB, but that's not a very interesting comparison because we know from current DRAM best practices that you can put it on its own die at a much lower cost.
Conversely getting 100k SSNs vs spending a significant amount of time and/or money on a handful is a different story. I'm not disputing that SSNs might be easy to obtain, but obtaining them at scale via breaches as this are apples and oranges. One is targeting a company because it is known to handle this information, the other is targeting an individual.

The difference is simply data dispersion. If a breach dump ends up on the public Internet everyone has access to that data, worst case scenario, infinitely. Individual targeting has a similar risk but the overall impact is smaller.

Not sure what your point is with the "head in the sand" comment - I happen to work for a security company in an engineering role. I'm not, in any way, defending security through obscurity or the way SSNs are used or (mis)handled. Reading through these comments it is apparent credit agencies don't even get it - and that is disturbing in itself.

But stating that you "doubt a whole lot of SSNs were gathered in this hack that weren't already effectively disseminated widely" is, in fact, a head-in-sand approach compared to doing everything you can to preserve and prevent in the mean time. I, personally, don't agree.

edit: added "compared" to second to last sentence for clarification
> What's difficult is getting the labelled data necessary to distinguish between "is this a picture of a person or a picture of a cat?". Watson is great and it seems like IBM has made an investment in acquiring and collecting the data necessary to do that.

Are they using more than ImageNet? The ImageNet dataset(s) are not hard to get.
Perhaps they're doing it during their day jobs, meaning on top of their normal job, effectively "double dipping." Could be a good, low-risk way to fill downtime.
Can you still make decent coin buying and selling domain names? Are there alerts you can setup for when one becomes available?
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So true. If you can't accept the risk of random bit flip in memory, laptops are only good for using a real computer remotely. Memory errors do happen all too often on laptops. Have had it happening in the middle of a AES CBC encrypted data file... How hard would it be to get ECC RAM on laptops for better reliability?
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I gave a little €5, but I'll gladly give more when I have more income, I'm still a student :P

I used PayPal and it went like a breeze too.
It doesn't seem to be happening this way because FSF fundamentalists like RMS want the whole hog to be 'Free Software' not just 'Open Source'. Any compromise is unacceptable even if it means cutting off their nose to spite their face.

See what happened to VLC as an example.
There's the Permanent Fund Dividend in Alaska, though it only hit $3269 its peak year, and that was with a bump from a budget surplus.
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To see that performance matters, talk to the guys who are closer to the electricity bills that the big honking clusters demand. There is quite a bit of money to be saved by using hardware effectively.

BTW if 90% time is spent in garbage collection, something is definitely wrong in the choice of tools or methods.
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Is this really the case? I recall that proper library support is slow-coming, not because of security model concerns, but because "doing it right" takes more time / money that there is in GPG development at the moment.

EDIT: For example, I believe that it would require rewriting a lot of code, and that means said code would need to be audited to make sure no security bugs were introduced. It's "easier" to just wrap the current command-line tools because they are a known quantity.
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Yes it has, there are a variety of licensing solutions for Mac OS X that do this (the openssl verify signed cert for licensing).

For example: https://github.com/glebd/cocoafob or
https://github.com/bdrister/AquaticPrime
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For that matter, I don't know what I would do without BouncyCastle: https://www.bouncycastle.org/donate/index.cgi

This article made me think about donating.
There are many free software projects that are decently or well funded. They have no problem meeting their donation requests, and having a good budget year over year. These projects are usually end user facing, in a way that their dependencies aren't.

It seems reasonable that these projects should consider adding items to their budget to redistribute funds to projects that they depend on.

Some probably do this, however I think the GP was suggesting that something like this become more common.
Hadn't thought of it and didn't plan it but that's a good idea. Fancy giving it a try?
Interesting that you chose to note that this is "the annual policing budget of 185,000 people," rather than the fact that it works out to 15 pence per-person per-year. That will be lost in the noise of my tax returns, which most people could probably only guess to the nearest £100 or £1000.
I like this idea a lot, but what would stop goods/housing from rising in price to meet the influx of free money?
> He should take a job, take care of himself (no one else will), and give gpg whatever time he has left, if he has the energy.

In your scenario, what will happen to GPG? The world just loses this essential asset?
Hopefully this article leads to a call-to-arms in the dev community to come up with best marketing/fundraising practices. I know that the idea of meritocracy is very powerful (and not altogether wrong)...but it's a tragedy when great software doesn't get the minimal exposure because of relatively easy friction problems that can be fixed.

I think of all the random, stupid things I've backed on Kickstarter, simply because I saw it on a friend's Twitter feed...things like GnuPG may not get as much consumer reaction as most Kickstarter widgets, but there are enough developers with disposable income who would happily donate to open-source-in-need if such causes were just slightly more visible.
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Probably for the same reason the history channel publishes a lot about the nazis. They make their money from eyeballs and eyeballs are attracted to dramatic things, like Hitler and sex.
Amazing and useful write-up to a non-engineer audience such as myself. This is very relevant to my participation in the Local Motors LITECAR challenge (goal: reduce curb weight significantly with developing tech for 10 year outlood) sponsored by ARPA-E. If you have any references for "materials" type people with composite experience, I'd love to have a technical partner with whom to expand on my entry and share the prize money. I can be reached through the contest site or rockstarguitaristforhire at the service of mail by the big G. My apology if this strays too much, I just really enjoyed this response and felt excited about pushing boundaries.
We're our own worst enemies. Software developers have this sort of circular firing squad where nobody wants to be the first to keep their source closed and try to charge for it. Because then you're just "greedy" and not pure enough.

But that'll never change unless all of a sudden we say "Ok, on the count of 3, everybody stop giving away their hard-earned expertise for free. 1... 2... 3..." We're like musicians nowadays. We love it, so we do it without insisting on compensation.

A few months ago, I Show HN'd an open source project, but reserved the copyright to the code. The commenters immediately took note of this and I felt compelled to switch it to an MIT license. (It was open source for security reasons, if you're wondering.) I'm glad I did, but the point remains: there was pressure to conform.
I would do:

absolute copyright - life of the author + 21 years (too account for minor children)

Derivative work would be treated like trademark after life of authors plus 21. You have to continuously use it in commerce. If you have the James Bond rights, you gotta still be in the business of making James Bond movies. The caveat would be it has to an identifiable brand. Like Trademark, you won't be allowed to license it readily either.

For direct copyright, I'd still banning the commercial distribution of the actual work unless the work falls out of print and is no longer widely available for purchase.
Depending on your taste in writing styles, you might enjoy this: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2014/01/randi_zuckerberg.html
While your API is well-done from a technical perspective, what I'm really impressed of is your client ecosystem. There are bindings for pretty much all relevant languages, even COBOL and bare x86 assembler. And most are even part of the language core, so you don't even need a library. That must have required some negotiation skills!
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It's an interesting observation that agrees with my experience as well.
One of the points in the article reminds me of this XKCD cartoon: http://xkcd.com/1205/
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Thanks for your answer. It's definitely complex as a situation, and never easy to know to what extent what you're being told is true -- hence, if you're really breaking the deal or not.