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i was kinda following you until that last part, where "not getting more favorable treatment" spontaneously mutated into "getting less favorable treatment"
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What's wrong with their git repo?
Sooo... volunteers to make these? They sound like great ideas. Not sure how you monetize, as ads are sort of antithetical to the notion of clean, BS-free news feeds, and we're all trained to expect content to be free these days.
Do artists get payouts from free listeners as well?
From what I've heard the author of LuaJIT contributed a lot of performance improvements to V8.

LuaJIT is a blessing and a curse. It's magnitudes faster than the standard interpreter but on the other hand it's version is lagging behind which means a lot of people won't benefit from the latest lua version
Detroit has also raised the price of water a couple times over the last decade to make up for budget shortfalls from lower tax revenue. I think it's more than double what it was in 2005.
Thanks for the Taxi Deutschland hint. Unfortunately that app freezes on startup in my Android phone (I just get the screen with a selection of tutorial or starting app, but it locks up there.)

The app seems to be in German only, and it is of course Germany-specific. I can deal with that pretty OK but not all potential users can. Uber uses the same app for any country.

(Downloading an app local to a country while roaming there may be a rather expensive idea, BTW.)
Go work at Uber :P
>Oblivious or selfish

It's not selfish to use the road to its full potential. We should all be merging at the last moment, and using zipper merging to allow smooth traffic flow.
General semantics helped me be aware of how easy it is to confuse the map for the territory, as well as adopt models based on their usefulness. As a great philosopher once said, reality is what you can get away with.
Because you want to split hairs over terminology, I will rephrase: I did not want to contribute to OSS anymore because watching other people make money off of my unpaid work made me feel undervalued and resentful. It also made me realize I didn't have to do any OSS contribution to get good jobs and spend unpaid time coding stuff for other people to use.

There I didn't use the word "exploited".. are you happy now?
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I don't think even companies that "require" a strong GitHub portfolio are saying that they're not filtering out good or great programmers. It's about signal and noise.

If you are hiring for a senior development position and you have a filter you can employ that will cut out 90% of mediocre or bad programmers (or perhaps more importantly make it much easier to identify them), but will also cut out 40% of good and great programmers, it's not a foregone conclusion that you shouldn't employe that filter. If you still get enough resumes to make a decision, you've just decreased the odds that you get a shit hire by $MATH percent.

If social justice is something you care about you probably don't want to do this. If building good software is something you care about, you probably do. I think most here would agree that a random developer with a large body of public OSS contributions is probably "better" than a random developer without. I say that as someone who has pushed to a public GitHub repository probably four times in the past two years.
You have MechJeb mod for that.
I've actually found building Go (Syncthing, in particular) for the packaging system I use (Gentoo's Portage) a complete PITA, to the point where I don't understand how it can be so broken. And I'm not really a fan of the language itself. Still, people are building some nifty things with it, so there must be something they like!
Well, obfuscation with a hefty dose of "gee whiz!" at least. Goransson's paper that he links too at least states that it's about a "nonstandard parameterisation," as opposed to talking about how it's another form of time (hey Baez, I suppose you could explain MPH to people as being another form of time if your goal was to confuse rather than enlighten).

Anyway, people are better off looking at the paper itself (which is rather sober) than reading Baez's summary, as the two are about the same length. I've noticed there's an unfortunate tendency among too many physicists/mathematicians to focus more on trying to amaze their audience rather than to educate them (in it's worst manifestations, you find them spouting outright falsehoods).
Hindsight is 20/20. I thought I had missed the boat in 2007 when Facebook was valued at $500 million. "Clearly they couldn't go much higher than that!" I thought.

I have a friend who got an offer from a startup in 2011 w/ 0.15% equity. He didn't take the offer. The company was WhatsApp and his equity would have been worth $27 million.
> Yes we sent astronauts to the moon using KSP math.

I'm almost positive that we did not.

While patched conics would have been used very early on for rough mission analysis and design, we had a very good understanding of perturbation theory at the time. Wikipedia tells me that the restricted 3-body problem was also essentially solved in 1917. I've seen very detailed plots of the free return trajectories that the Apollo missions followed, too.

Using patched conics for the earth moon system would have resulted in an error on the scale of lunar escape velocity upon entering the sphere of influence of the Moon.
It's 2015. Why are you browsing the web with Lynx, and why should anyone design for the incredibly small population of people like you?
But if you're so talented and have such good fans, why would you need to put Spotify between you and those fans?
I suggest offering the option to both your donors and recipients to divert the funds to save as many lives as possible (call the Watsi crew).

"It’s a false dichotomy to say that you either save a life by helping a child in a poor country OR give to a water bill in the United States. You can do both in proportion to your ability."

For whatever proportion of someone's resources they are willing to give, they can choose to save lives for US$1-5k each.

Instead of providing one $1k life saving surgery and $1k water bill, two $1k surgeries could save two lives.

Sadly there is not a shortage of dying men, women and children who can be saved cheaply.

Perhaps one day there will be... if we stop goofing around.
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> "Its the 3rd Millennium, get with it."

No need to be condescending. People can disagree with you without being technically stupid.

> "SO that's what, a few gigabytes? Takes 30 seconds to download? Then run some stats, get some totals and compare it to your check. What's the problem?"

I think you underestimate the complexity of a database that grows by 20 million records per month, but let's say you solve the technical, computational, and programming issues. It's still a bad idea.

Most of Spotify's customers can open and understand their Spotify payment today. Your customers are not database experts. Most people have rudimentary Excel skills at best. Talk down to them all you want, but they won't know what to do.

So what, they should all hire data analysts? To understand their Spotify invoice?? You know you're using technology wrong when you take something your customers currently understand intuitively, and alter it in a way that requires technology. I understand that you're trying to fix a problem, but you're actually introducing new problems that are far more significant.

Don't let the love of nuance override your customer's experience. That's how you build "perfect" products no one wants.
So you treat people as if they have no worth until they do something you like. Got it.
Yeah, I agree it's currently not that great for non-technical people. Still, I'm excited that I finally have something that fulfills this need for something Dropbox-like but with my own storage that seems to get the job done (including syncing my 50 GB Lightroom collection!) with a UI that makes sense to myself, at least.
sudanese citizens are expecting more than promises..
It really depends on the company and the terms of the investments they take on. This is a little case study of what you equity might look like if you joined Uber in 2012: https://equityzen.com/blog/uber-employee-shareholder-value-a... . It's a little outdated but it goes over some of the math you would need to figure out what your shares would be worth.
I want the broadband connection you've got.
Why would they suffer? If you are concerned with your safety and trust the government vetting process, you are free to use government-licenced taxi services exclusively.
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If I released my circuit boards as "free", then someone would complain that I didn't use KiCAD instead of Altium.
I think the problem is that there is no distinction made between computer generated playlists (eg: Yoga Radio) and listener initiated streams.

Why not keep the existing royalty structure, but split the royalty pie based on user initiated streams and computer generated streams. If someone buys premium and only listens to Yoga Radio:

30% Spotify
70% Existing Yoga Radio Big Pool Royalty Structure

But if 50% of their listening is actual artists they have chosen (download to phone, click on artist/album or song/shared playlist from someone else/own playlist):

30% Spotify
35% Existing Yoga Radio Big Pool
35% Direct cut determined by per-listener chart

Or if Mom signs up and only listens to her kid:

30% Spotify
0% Yoga Radio
70% Direct cut determined by per-listener chart (all to one with love from Mom)

This not only rewards artists with loyal fanbases, but it also fairly compensates artists who compete in the mass market where people just listen to the radio and don't care.

Best of both worlds, no?
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The problem with actionable news is that you have to allow some individual(s) to make the decision for lots of other people what is actionable. Chances are you have someone in the audience whose creativity is greater than the filter's and could have figured out an action that was overlooked.

With old news, it does seem like there's a class of news subjects that are picked before ripe in a sense, and it'd be great to stop doing that—but stuff like disaster news is probably best to keep reporting as soon as possible...
> OSS is a vehicle for companies to exploit unpaid labor.

OSS is freely given, sometimes by people who are paid to do exactly that. The term "unpaid labor" has a specific connotation akin to slavery or indentured servitude. The two are not comparable.

Complaining that someone somewhere makes money (at best, indirectly) from an OSS contribution is the same as complaining that Good Will resold my donation at a profit.
Not sure why your getting voted down but once you've experienced the ups and downs of equity value it gets to be quite noisy. So the car I sold to used car dealer which I "paid" 1.6M for was replaced by another car I had bought using some stock money I got from a company that had acquired my startup, when I sold that car 5 years later the stock used to buy the car was worth a bit less than $400. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, but the reality was "Hey, I've got a car and no car payments." which at the time was relevant.

The message is very much that getting "rich" doesn't really matter if you're the founder or a later employee, and its pretty random with respect to "skill". If you happened to be at Sun in the 80's and you sold your stock in the late 90's you made a lot, if you kept it until Oracle bought the remains, you made much less. Same stock different value. (and yes I had a wee bit of stock left when Oracle bought them)

What I learned from that was that making money in the stock market was about targeting a gain and capturing it. So when Facebook went public I bought some at $18 and told my financial advisor to sell it if it ever hit $36 (which it did of course). So for that part of my portfolio I made a bit more than a 100% annual rate of return for that one stock. Its up to $81 today, at some point it will likely be worthless. But for me, it took some of my money and doubled it in less than a year. Good enough for me.

But the Ask HN post is about whether or not equity compensation is "worth it" and the answer in the Bay Area has always been "yes". How much, or how little, extra it is, varies but as long as you wait to exercise and make a profit (yes you pay a bigger tax burden but its always a positive amount of money) it is just "extra" money that you got in addition to your pay. It it worth to work for stock instead of pay? That is a much riskier deal and probably not if you can't afford to pay your own bills independently. And do you have to work at a "startup" to get a big boost out of equity value? Absolutely not.
>If the lower dynamic range tracks sound louder even after normalization then the normalization algorithm is flawed.

That's not quite true. Listen to this: https://soundcloud.com/amp-33/sets/uncompressed-vs-compresse...

Those two things have a pretty similar loudness(A-weighted RMS) and yet the compressed one sounds louder than the measured difference - ~3dB A-weighted which is not obvious to perceive untrained.

As a test - download them both, amplify the Uncompressed one at -2.7dB and listen to them again. They have the same A-weighted RMS yet the Uncompressed one sounds louder.

A-weighting - http://www.diracdelta.co.uk/science/source/a/w/aweighting/so...
RMS - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_mean_square
Measurements done with Audacity, wave stats: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?p=248505#p248505

edit:to add the quote
My reasons for leaving were 100% personal. Financially I would have been much, much better off staying for at least another 2-3 years.
those sites aren't talking about the actual mining, and roughnecking. did you even read the copy you linked to?
Don't spoil, you're depriving RMS from publishing another OP-ed on non-free electronics CAD environment...
The counterpoint to that is if we don't "mess" with them (i.e. mark them for preservation) now they're much more likely get plundered / messed with by other, less well-intentioned persons at some point later on.
You don't need to put your software under a GNU approved FOSS license in order to put it up on github and get all the benefits of listing it on your resume. You can easily put your code up there with a non-commercial non-free open source license, and still list it on your resume.

Seriously, companies typically give zero shits about which software license you personally prefer, they just want to be able to look over what you have accomplished.
I'd say it's a bit on the cheap side when you are talking full retail pricing. It executes well on its premise, has good polish and has no major issues that I've run into at release. That's better than most games asking for $50+ these days. And yet, it's priced at a discount.
I'm not against people getting medical treatments if they need them, but why call what we're doing "goofy"?

The single mother of three we helped who was contemplating forgoing her heart medication to make sure her children had water (and lost it anyway because she needed her heart medication) wouldn't call this "goofing around."

I'm genuinely interested in why you insist on framing this that way.

Edit: Nothing that we're doing suggests we value some lives over others. Watsi helps a specific demographic, we help another. Everyone wins here.
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Either you didn't read the article, or you are deliberately knocking down straw men for a seemingly bizarre reason.

RMS laid out EXACTLY the points you've described; that hardware & circuits can be patented, but the circuit topology cannot be copyrighted.

I think the idea that Dr. Stallman is writing about is a framework for sharing designs and collaborating that has the potential to grow into a thriving free hardware ecosystem.

It seems you may feel threatened by such a development, but for the reasons you outlined, it may not be a threat. I suppose however that having public repositories of innovative hardware designs could make it harder to obtain patents if it turns out that prior art was posted and timestamped on the Internet.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair
Most harassment is public.

- Twitter
- Facebook
- IRC
- Twitch
- Reddit
- Real world (some wear hoods)

Some are more anonymous, some less.
As an aside, I find it curious that so many mathematicians, programmers and others associated with logical professions be interested in music. I was relieved to see Olympiad guys from before my birth showing similar traits.
You could use the (A)(L)GPL license. With AGPLv3 even SaaS is covered. But it's a tradeoff as companies will prefer MIT/BSD over GPL, if there are alternatives.
May I suggest Leonard Susskinds "Theoretical minimum" as an accessible introduction to classical mechanics which attempts to show among other things why reparametrizations are cool.
Escrow, funds are only released once the buyer confirms that he received the shipment. If you have a ton of outstanding orders, you are going to have a lot of funds frozen in escrow.
My point was more about the propriety of bloviating forth over what others do with their money (regardless of how you choose to classify those choices).

A meal is a handy rubric because it is quite easy to be either cost conscious or extravagant, thoughtful or oblivious.
"Meritocracy" is not a real concept of how to run a community, but rather a satirical term used to lampoon the idea that "merit" is a 1-dimensional concept which can be measured linearly and used to judge people and rank them. The term was invented as satire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Meritocracy

Thinking that it's a good idea is like what happened with "waterfall" development. Someone described all the problems with what big companies were doing, and then someone else picked up that description of all the problems and said "ooh! all the big companies are doing this! this must be a great way to do things!" and then everyone perpetuated that disaster for the next two decades.

The fact that "hacker" culture has uncritically picked up on "meritocracy" and doesn't realize it's a snarky joke about unfairness says a lot about the unbelievably sheltered and privileged position that most people reading this site enjoy, and our collective lack of social skills. By "social skills" I don't just mean, like, how to behave at parties, but also how to manage groups and how to be aware of the perspectives of other people.

Not to mention the fact that if your open source community isn't measuring merit on an objective, defined-in-advance, linear scale, with measures in place, then you are not even practicing the (unfair, broken) system of "meritocracy", you're just doing "rule by cognitive bias" ("biasocracy"? surely nobody is going to take that term and think it's a worthy goal to aspire to).

You can trust me, because my community _does_ practice objective, quantitative meritocracy, and therefore I am provably the best and most deserving person in this conversation: https://twistedmatrix.com/highscores/
If this is your attitude, you will never earn my respect, and rightly so.

People should be treated with respect until they have shown they don't deserve it.

Your comment here betrays a nasty perspective on the human race.
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I gotta say, that sim of three lanes of cars all merging into one lane to turn right really was painful to look at. Darn near had flashbacks to my morning commute. Really nice work.
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I can't wait. I can't use Win8 because the interface sucks so much on a real laptop. What was MS thinking? And I also hope they speed up the startup time, because it's definitely not faster than win7. In fact, all it does is show the "desktop" quicker, but you can't do anything until the little circle stops spinning, and that takes just as long as win7.
I'm now on my third startup that has IPOed (Zendesk). I've been relatively lucky, but I also tend to eschew media and gaming companies; my perception of the risk of long-term failure is higher for those. I prefer to work for B2B and infrastructural companies that serve up-market customers and provide real technological value (i.e. can't be easily copied), and my choice has served me well thus far.
I came back to Perl about 18 months ago, after working as a sysadmin for a couple of months and being fed up with Python's unicode handling (Python 2.x, I haven't given Python 3.x a try, yet).

I do not think Perl is a pretty language, but I have come to appreciate how useful it is. If all you want is a smallish application (roughly, less than 1 KLOC), especially if you're only going to use it once or maybe a handful of times, no other language I have met can keep up.

And for the kind of problem I typically use Perl for - reading, say, a CSV file or an Excel spreadsheet, filtering the data according to some criterion, fetching and adding data from an external source, say, an LDAP directory or a relational database, then inserting the result into a database or emitting another CSV file - it is also surprisingly hard to beat Perl's runtime performance, especially its regex engine.
I'm not saying it can't be done, but for a program you're essentially throwing away after a week or so, it's usually not worth the hassle.
At 1000 users you can likely get a good licensing deal to bring that down a bit.
Yes, I should have been more clear: The idea that contributing to OSS is A Good Thing is dogma. It is a vehicle for companies to profit from work they don't have to pay for.

It has nothing to do with whatever political axe you have to grind.
The trouble is your first and second categories conflict. If someone is about to be appointed to some office the citizenry may want to weigh in on it. If a disaster occurs then people may want to donate money or volunteer to help victims. A product review of a product not yet released can inform the decision of whether to buy an existing product or wait for the new release.

The actual problem is with 24 hour formats reporting things they don't actually know. Which happens because there is an ongoing story with ~15 minutes a day of new information, but just repeating those 15 minutes of information all day will cause you to lose viewers who leave the news on all day and don't want to hear the same thing over and over whereas reporting other stories for the rest of the day will cause you to lose viewers who tune in at random times looking for specifically that information. So they try to report "new" information about the most popular story all day even when they don't have any.

There is a fairly obvious solution to this, which is to discontinue broadcast reporting and provide news on demand. If you want to know the latest on the lost plane, here it is; that story will stick at the top of the page until people stop clicking on it but nothing new will be posted until something new is actually known.

Then let people create custom news streams like channels on streaming music sites: If some news happens with the missing plane then make that the next story in my stream, otherwise give me news about NSA surveillance, then protests occurring locally, then tech product reviews, etc.
That's true but most people are used to a smaller DR(up to a point of course but that point is way out) and still prefer the lower DR even after normalization.
Brokering narcotics and everything else to the entire world is an unsustainable business you have no safe country to flee to if caught or outed. Surprised these black markets don't just focus on one foreign market from their stronghold in Abkhazia or something.
OSS also empowers individuals to create great things - despite limited financial resources.
https://www.google.com/#q=economist+meerkat ... to by pass the pay wall. Twitter continues its bad practices to loyal developers who base their application on their API.