skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They did a little more than a bank. They built Android and its marketplace rather than just serve as an intermediary in the payment process.
The thing is, free riding isn't necessarily cheaper for anyone.

When you're depending on the software in question, it being underfunded might mean you're not getting the quality and features that would pay off in multiples for you. You could be sitting on a pile of bugs, or your dependency could be abandoned at your expense. These things happen all the time in open source land and it's a tragedy.

I'm not convinced that freeriding is really rational at all. I would however grant that it's both easy and lazy.
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The final example though, where a Crow returns the camera-lens cap to the family requires some pretty advanced thinking. We know that Crows recognize human faces and expressions, and communicate these facts amongst each other.

Crows / Ravens are the only creature aside from Humans who perform meta-tool use. They can use tools to grab tools to accomplish a goal. In many ways, they're smarter than (non-human) primates, and are probably the 2nd smartest animals on earth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Caledonian_crow#Meta-tool_...

Birds in general are pretty smart (see Pidgeons, Parrots, etc. etc.) However crows / ravens are on a completely different intelligence level. Crows break nuts by dropping them on the asphalt... timing their drops during red lights so that traffic doesn't hit them.

Besides, gift-giving is seen in far dumber animals than crows. Dogs, Cats, Penguins... they don't have the intelligence of Crows but they understand gifts and social situations.
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Developers are already paying to get installs, Google wants another piece of the pie.
It'd be great if clicking the bookmarklet didn't navigate me away from the page I'm on but instead overlaid something.
In the context of a sundial (Edit: in the northern hemisphere), it makes more sense. The right-to-left bits are mostly happening at night :)
Stalinist? Brendan Eich is cutting down trees in Kolyma? No, I don't think that he should have been pushed out, but come on.
Cool, looks like a re-imagining of Archon...
It'd be interesting to see a more general software section for Patreon.com. Maybe patrons could get support, prioritized features, etc?
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Maybe we should turn our open source projects into businesses? At least make it clear we're open to taking money for extra features and/or support?

In the past few years, that's become the stable way of generating returns on open source software. But "OSS-as-company" is still a huge leap for any given single popular developer since it takes much more dedication (company+sales+taxes+accounting+employees) and long-term planning than just creating+improving+maintaining code alone.
And even at that a quarter of the words aren't needed.
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nope, not fixed yet, same error. fsType bit should be 0.
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> the Semites---a people speaking similar languages, from which both Jews and Muslims descend

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I would be great if an independent lab would certify equipment and software as spyware free.

And it would be great if one could buy insurance to that effect on equipment and software.

The NSA has done great economic damage to US exports of software and IT equipment. I suppose that US government oversight of the NSA takes that into account.
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When I was a little kid, I watched Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999) a bajillion times. Great soundtrack – love the In a Gadda da Vida scene –, editing and overall mood. That movie might be the cause for my obsession with all things HN.

Although No Time from The Guess Who still makes me extremely anxious.
Do [m|]any open source projects hold patents?
I was thinking the same thing. I'm actually surprised it took this long for China to react.
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OK, I've lived in the US but now live in China, where I once lived right down the road from a Huawei office. Recently, I was visiting my birthplace of Australia and met a friend who now manages IP networks for (one of?) the largest mobile data providers in the country. He said they were about to buy Huawei gear as it was cheaper and as featuresome as they required. Then the government came to visit. They said, you're welcome to buy it but there's no guarantee your licenses will be renewed. Of course, they didn't buy it.

There's a lot of this government and intelligence pressure on infrastructure providers going on. The general public is not informed. The situation appears to be global.

Our secret intelligence culture and process is antithetical to democracy, and enabling of plutocracy, neo-fascism, and the total corruption of our government. - Robert David Steele, ex-Marine, ex-CIA, Open Source Intelligence Expert, 'The Open-source Everything Manifesto'

A lot of the US capacity to break in to networks seems to come from just being aggressive paying individual hackers to sell them exploits out of public view. Some of these people have said to me 'I know it's unethical, but it's what I enjoy and I'm good at - the only other market is organized crime'. It's a constant digital arms race where the public loses. Hopefully the governments of the world will realize the futility here and begin to redirect resources toward open source systems.
True, I always think the same thing. But if a wheel was rotating clockwise, it would be moving from left to right. That could be where it comes from.
>DRY is the reason I write a remote facade.

Remote facade sounds like a lot of boilerplate to me.
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> I've had about 80% of interviewees tell me that it's the most fun they've ever had in an interview.

Did you ask them this during/immediately following the interview? That may... skew your results.

Then again, if they're offering that insight without being prompted, that's a very good sign. I think the execution of this strategy, and the general tone of the people involved is very important.
I'm working on a side project now that will eventually be an open source project. I think it could benefit a lot of people.

My problem is that I have a full time job. When I come home at night I want to cook dinner, run, socialize, drink a beer with a friend, or work on an art project. I don't particularly want to configure Ansible or read the OpenVPN docs.

At most I can get 3-5 hours of productive work per week on this project before I start getting really irritable.

I'm not a terribly skilled web designer so I feel like contract work isn't really a feasible option.

So I'm stuck with a chicken and egg scenario. I could make huge strides on the side project if I got funding to quit my job, but I can't get funding without an already working product.

I've considered quitting my job and diving into it for a few months. I have savings but this seems foolishly risky to me.

Maybe I just need to be more disciplined.

If anyone has been in a similar situation, I would greatly appreciate advice.
That's a fair point - for myself applying for jobs (vs. being the hirer), I more often did not apply for jobs based on stated salary range. Anecdotal at best, of course.
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Crows are incredibly smart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY8-gP3Sw_8
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How about an idea collector

Campus map/direction tool

Local resource directory

Pocket dorm room inventory
Obviously it depends on the circumstances. There are cases where it's so important to you that you might as well pay up, free riding or not.
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It certainly makes sense for an object encircling you. For a wall clock it then comes down to whether you imagine yourself standing out from the wall on the clock face, or if you are burried into the wall. The first is perhaps the most obvious imagination chosen by most people.
I agree about letting our brutal tendencies out.
I don't agree with the redefinition of violence from physical harm to include cyberbullying. Bullying is correlated with acts of violence, but violence and bullying are different things.
I think our in-group out-group behavior and all the brutal tendencies stem from our very evolution. Macques do the same thing ( http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/2011-01598-001/ ).
That being said I also don't think any group has an extremist anti-social attitude. It seems like an paradox, how do people who are extremely anti-social form a group, wouldn't they just be bunch of isolated loners ? I think are simply extremist towards people they see as the "other" or outside their group.
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A big problem here in London is the willingness of big firms, especially financial ones to pay market rate in all conditions. An example:

I work at an IB, doing Python/Quant development. We are presented with two candidates to interview.

Candidate 1 is ok, has a year or two of Python but otherwise mostly Java background. Did so-so in the algo and numerical discussions, was ok in the problem solving categories. He was currently earning 75k and was asking for a 5k bump. HR were fine with this.

Candidate 2 was unbelievable, has authored and contributed to many open source Python libraries, was well known in the community, did very well in the questions, would have been an absolute asset to the team and business. He is currently earning 50k at a Django shop. HR rejected his application as hge asked for 70k, on the grounds that the jump was too big. Even though it was less than the overall pay for candidate 1.

Employers suck hard sometimes!
While I don't care either way if this exists or not, I do worry that this will further result in Google ignoring the "discoverability" problem in the Google Play app store.

Because if they improve discoverability for free, then who will buy their adverts? The worse the store is at pointing you at the correct apps, the more ads people will buy (so less work for them and more $$$, win/win).

It isn't helped by how large of a stranglehold Google has gained on the Android ecosystem. Amazon is the next largest, but still tiny by comparison. Piracy might outnumber Amazon frankly.
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Yes, it depends whether you watch the upper part of the circle, or the bottom part.

But people imagine drawing circle starting at the top, so it makes some sense.

BTW: right is Right, and left is "sinister", so to go from sinister to Right is good, and to go the other way is bad.

BTW2 - in my native language (Polish) the association are similar - prawy (right) means also "virtous", and "lewy" (left) means "counterfeited", "illegal".
Github is hosted in the butt, so I agree with your suggestion. I'll make a bullshit pull request and upload it to the butt soon.
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> I don't apply to jobs that don't list a salary range. This is a red flag that tells me that the employer doesn't have the budget to pay market rates

Do you only work for startups? Most major tech companies don't list salary ranges, and Google, Facebook, etc obviously have the money to pay what people are worth.
Meh, I still think your first paragraph is straw men. I do have some voice in the matter, as I do with the government. That I have very little voice is not really the point here.

Thanks for the links. A couple of new papers to read there.

FWIW, my assertion that Watt held up development of the high-pressure steam engine and thus the locomotive came from Mokyr, not from Boldrin and Levine. I hold Mokyr in pretty high esteem, so I trust his interpretation, but I have not read the primary sources myself. It's interesting that the paper you mention has had almost no cites...even though it mentions that Mokyr et al commented on it. If they believed it threatened their views, you would think they would respond.

I tried to be evenhanded with the last paper by cutting to a neutral quote. I agree with your interpretation, but what that says to me is that patents are, on average, neither good nor bad for a startup. The plethora of papers arguing one way or the other, almost all with some flawed methodology (c.f. "do patents cause more patents to be filed?" or "why doesn't stronger patent law cause more patents to be filed?", etc.) says to me that there is not yet an answer to this question. This is a problem because patent law consumes a ton of resources, so there should be a rather more definitive answer about its efficacy. (It also seems eminently answerable, albeit with a lot more work defining and collecting metrics; I think, given that academics generally despise "business" questions, that simply counting patents is about all the work they are willing to do. That last paper I cited is the most actual roll-up-your-sleeves work I have seen addressing the question.)

My slant comes from 30+ years in the computer industry, 20 of it backing startups. My general rule of thumb is that if a founder's pitch puts a ton of emphasis on their patents, I pass. Patents have simply proved an ineffective way to defend a new business, in my experience.

Of course, if I were in a discovery-based business, like pharma, rather than an engineering-based business, I would have seen a different sequence of events and so have a different opinion.
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In which case they should expect to pay a premium to compensate the good employers for the risk they take on switching. Around where I live, they often use contracting companies on a contract to hire, and in that case the profit the contracting company is making is the premium, but one that the employee isn't getting. This results worse candidates on average as the best are going to either demand the guarantee from the start or that they receive the extra pay for the risk instead of it going to a contracting company.
Streamus A chrome extension has been working great for me.

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> It seems to be a peculiarity of our human nature that if we are watching the movement of a stick's shadow, that we face north to do so.

No, it just logic. If you're standing south of the stick (facing north), the stick's shadow will move in (roughly) a half-circle throughout the day, starting at the left of the stick, moving right and up (while contracting) to vertical (pointing north), and then extending further to the right until it reaches (almost) east. It will be shorter in the summer and longer in the winter. You could also watch this "from above" (north of the stick, facing south), but if you're south of the stick, looking at the movement of the shadow in the half circle is quite similar to looking at the movement of the sun in the sky (except in the opposite direction).

Most things are reversed if you're in the southern hemisphere.
Great idea, and quite funny to use :)
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Needs work. Only about 10% of the relevant terms in Weird Al Yancovic's "Mission Statement" were marked out.

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To quote their Director of Development: “I know this isn't an easy challenge, but senior-level work is a lofty claim. Nailing this challenge is a pretty quick ticket to landing this job.” You don't consider that cocky? As for wordy, well I just like to be creative while clearly explaining my point.

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I think it's a bit unfair to call vim and all the standard command-line tools in a typical linux distro "a hammer." There is a hell of a lot you can do before you begin to customize them.
OrientDB started disrupting the Graph Database market since the beginning by forcing existent products to improve their offer to reduce the gap with OrientDB. Some vendor already cut prices, other vendor announce to be "Multi-Model". Yes, because OrientDB is not only a Graph Database, but also a Multi-Model at the engine level.

Today OrientDB releases the Enterprise Edition FREE for development. For production users are free to going with Enterprise (commercial) or Community (always FREE - Apache2 licensed).

It's a big momentum for the whole DBMS market!
Fair enough, thanks for the perspective!

What library would you use instead of slick?
I've had a similar issue, and decided to treat it like a hobby - too risky to see as a job, but too interesting to ignore.

If you have a hobby and part of the pleasure of the hobby is the end result, then I'd suggest carving time out daily to work on it like exercise. Even an hour a day and 2 hours on each weekend would triple the time you've put into it to date.

That said, if you enjoy doing other things more, I wouldn't sweat it.
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Sorry if it sounded harsh. It's a decent article on grammar and semantics – an enjoyable topic by itself – but the writer chose the easy way to market it, that is, "sexism". I hold The Guardian in high regard, so I was surprised the article came from it.
Well, clearly the temp salary should be much higher than perm salary in order to compensate for the extra risk, right?
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I am pretty surprised by my ranking in San Francisco :) 86 in Lua devs? not so many Lua devs around ...

Also, it seems that some of my repo are not taking into account, like https://github.com/picsoung/uberSlackBot which has 13 stars.
I agree with some of the other sentiment.
It's probably due to connections with various people.
I personally don't approve of such underhanded tactics in the indie scene.

When I was part of the indie game scene in the beginning (New York scene), there was a lot of hope and I guess naivety ,that the best game would naturally float to the top in terms of news and such.
However it seems more like the people you were friends with mattered a lot more than the actual game, that was incredibly disheartening to me and I dropped that scene.
I would say the indie scene right now works exactly the same way as AAA scene, with all the underhanded dealings just in its own microcosm.
1,500 is a pretty small test group when you're dividing in to ethnicities which are subdivided between "East Asian" and "South Asian"
Here's Mesosphere's take on Docker Swarm, orchestrating at scale with Swarm + Mesos

http://mesosphere.com/2015/02/26/deploying-with-docker-swarm...
Signup is broken, how could that be. That is the only functionality of that site.
I never got that much sold into ORMs when doing anything more complex than plain CRUD, I rather use the expressiveness and performance of plain SQL and its associated procedural extensions.
A lot of crypto have actual use in the real life :) I guess there is a zero knowledge solution to this problem as well
I don't have a degree in economics and I never tried my hand at advertising, so please forgive my ignorance. To my uneducated ears, what you just said sounds like:

"Advertisements are a good thing because they help surface the products that are making money (which is in some way a proxy for providing value, usually) faster than the products that are simply most popular."

If I think of any advertisement I see, ever, then value has absolutely nothing to do with it. Axe, Jack Daniel's, any laundry detergent, McDonald's, cars.

In fact, most advertisements themselves stopped trying to pretend to be "better". Of that list, only laundry detergents talk about how they are better than competitors. Which is still complete bollocks, of course.

Since when do ads have anything to do with the value of the product? How would that be any different for apps?

I'm not trying to be coy, I seriously don't understand what you said.
> So: the only people who will apply for jobs with no salary listed are the ones desperate for any job.

And people who hire complain about the bad standard of applicants!
That's pretty ridiculous. I guess I don't feel bad about being less than honest when asked by a potential employer about my current salary. It's really none of their business.
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This isn't particularly awkward.
Everything seemed reasonable until he complained about the lack of access to "telephone pole infrastructure".

I can't speak for all 50 states, but in Indiana the pole infrastructure is actually the power utilities where anyone can request (and are mandated by the state regulatory body to have equal access to all) permission and access to attach to the poles. The process IS painful as the power utility has to perform engineering studies regarding the attachments to their poles, for each steenkin pole. The requestor pays for all such studies.
This is why you shouldn't tell prospective employers your current salary.
Any way to automatically apply this to techcrunch.com? I imagine not much would be left.
If your company doesn't appreciate enough to pay you market rate unless you explicitly ask for it, you're better off finding a different employer.
A further step towards the gamification of Open Source development.

On the other hand, maybe that's Github's future business model: Rank Open Source slaves and sell that information to recruiters.
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Related: I'm recording myself code up a new microservices hobby application. I'm doing the whole thing, from selecting a domain name to services orchestration (much later, of course). The technology stack is F#, Mono, .NET, ubuntu, AWS, BASH, Apache. We're talking about architecture, design, user stories, TDD, philosophical differences between traditional OO coding and FP coding and more.

It's all free.

If you're interested in more microservices stuff, here's the link to the first one. Fair warning, though: this isn't professionally produced or slick. It's just some schmuck (me) programming.

http://vimeo.com/120136738
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I don't apply to jobs that don't list a salary range. This is a red flag that tells me that the employer doesn't have the budget to pay market rates and that applying and interviewing could be a colossal waste of time for both of us.

This one also has an evil sibling: you say something meaningless like "Salary: Competitive" and then when an applicant turns up to interview, you ask them what they're currently on. I see absolutely no reason, from the candidate's point of view, that discussing current compensation with a prospective future employer would ever work in your favour.

Worst case (edit: for not disclosing your current deal) is that the manager/HR drone stick to their guns and won't move the discussion on before you give a number, in which case you know what kind of employer you're dealing with and can decide to leave the interview early if your interest in working with them has faded.
As proprietary software yes, but the moment you have something free with source code available, why should I pay you for it?

This is why most successful desktop open source desktop software, actually live from another sources of funding, but it hardly created the same changes as with developer tools.