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>Stallman did write "I developed the GNU operating system, which is often called Linux", which you have to admit is a bizarre statement.

The statement is not incorrect or bizarre and is entirely accurate. GNU is the Operating System. Linux is the Kernel. Debian runs on the GNU Operating System (using the Linux Kernel). It would be like calling Mac OS X "XNU" instead. We don't do that because it's named after the OS and not the kernel. When people refer to "Linux Distributions" they are incorrectly referring to "GNU Distributions".

I can think of several explanations for why we call it "Linux" and not "GNU" - but I don't personally give a shit. Stallman is correct that the Operating System is called Linux by most people though. Does it matter? To him, I imagine it does or he wouldn't make a big deal about it. Most people don't care though. Why? Well they probably didn't contribute to writing GNU.

>Even if a web service is built on FOSS, you cannot see if it is tracking you, any more than I can tell what data is in a LibreOffice spreadsheet.

Correct. Even if a web service is FOSS there is no way to confirm the public facing code base is the one used for the web service. That relies on a bit of trust. I believe he spoke more on this and I'd have to find it as I can't remember offhand.

I believe his terminology for "web service" is a bit different than how most people take it nowadays - so this might also be an issue of semantics. I imagine people might take it to been SAAS "web services" but I believe he uses it in a more broad scope. A lot of web services can be 'built and ran yourself' so he isn't wrong, it just isn't very practical or realistic. Which is a fine criticism.

You can be "technically correct" but still "in practice; disconnected with reality". Which is where I stand with a lot of Stallman's claims. It's not that he is wrong, it's that what he is asking for (in the modern world) is simply unrealistic and impractical.
The people who have the talent necessary to change the world, and the people who can afford to buy real estate in SF are two sets with a small intersection. Both are small sets on their own, and the correlation of membership is probably pretty close to zero (being talented makes you more of a candidate for material success in some ways, and less of one in others, so the net effect is probably zero) so you'd imagine a tiny intersection.

It's not that "nobody goes" because it's too crowded. It's that the people you want don't go because it's too crowded with people you don't.
Ask HN: Historical examples of when housing prices become too high?
I keep reading about how expensive it is to buy a home in Silicon Valley, NYC, London, Toronto, etc...

I want to know if there is any historical context to when housing prices become unaffordable to the middle class. what happens? Do young people shift en mass to renting? Does the "bubble" eventually bust or do home prices stay stagnant? etc
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My first experience was at school ~ '85 on AT&T 3B2 (SYSV), and VAX (bsd4.2?), and DG/UX (who knows).

There were no books or tutorials. Someone said, just read man and rn! So I did, and boy am I grateful that's how I learned.
I was able to determine "flip the 8" due to my study of logic and AI: Modus ponens.

Unfortunately, I forgot about Modus Tollens, and forgot about the "Green" card.

The fact of the matter remains: the typical human does not study basic logic. And basic logic is hard to do without proper study. In fact, verifying that you must flip the 8 and green basically requires the human to "make the leap" and fully understand Modus Ponens and Modus Tollens.
No, the evidence is not "stronger" for the efficacy of psychotherapy over medication in moderate to severe depression. Nor is it "stronger" for mild depression - they appear to be about as efficacious.

And no, the "neurochemical" explanation for depression isn't bullshit.

But please do enlighten us with your own scientific theory on what scientific process other than chemicals underlies phenomenon like mood, motivation, focus, etc.

Stop peddling psuedoscience.
That's a good point, I haven't checked those out. Mostly been looking through stuff on Meetup.com. I'll do that and see what turns up.
Well, we don't like them very much in here.

/s

But yeah, they are the poster child of a Berlin startup.
not so because options and RSUs mean that until the vest you don't get ownership of the stock. So if you keep it for an ADDITIONAL year then you get taxed long term on the _additional gain_.

Basically options and RSU = normal income
>Salesforce's stock has been trading at all-time highs — partly because of rumors about a take-over, but also because the company has had some really good quarterly earnings and is growing fast.

>Now that it appears merger talks are over, shares of Salesforce are climbing again.

Stock price climbed due to potential for a merger.

Stock price climbs again due to end of potential for a merger.

Does a merger have an effect on the stock price? Its presence and absence are both (partial) causes for stock price growth.

I'm probably primed for this due to an article on a logic puzzle[0].

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9588845
Kindly take your pseudoscience to CrystalsRUS.com
Ok so given the example, you have a media query for a smaller screen and you switch the direction to be column.

Would it really present a problem to add 2 more lines of code to change hor-align and ver-align to be different if need be?

In the example, they don't even use justify-content and align-items frankly.

The trade-off seems to be that you define a flexbox and let's say define the elements to be spaced out evenly horizontally on the page and when you flip it to be a vertical layout - now they are spaced out evenly vertically.

Except you probably don't want that, so you're going to be redefining these justify-content and align-items based on row/column directions anyway so what are you winning by having it confusing and direction-agnostic?

In the real world, we scroll vertically and read horizontally in most cultures, so WE are not direction agnostic. Why flexbox is, is beyond me.

Granted, I haven't extensively used it - it could be that there's hidden powers that add complexity that I am not appreciating at this time.
> No alternatives given for fixing the problems that legislation engenders for commerce, just irrational hatred.

Not hatred, disgust. There's a significant difference.

What good is a service attempting to "disrupt" regulation if it lowers the quality of life for the most in need? THAT is not progress.
I had almost the exact opposite experience.

I lived in SF, then moved to Athens, GA for 6 years, then back to SF. I have a lot more disposable income in SF because while my rent doubled, my salary tripled. On top of that, anything with an MSRP set at a national level (cars, bicycles, guitars) is a much, much smaller percentage of my monthly income. On top of that, I can contribute 3x as much to my retirement as I did before. It's win/win/win.
Mineral content in tap-water can vary, even between places where tap-water is very well potable. Minerals can affect taste, according to [1] (I didn't check myself).

[1] http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2014/06/06/the-sec...
Not surprised at all that this trend is starting to get big enough for news outlets to finally notice.

Only once I moved to small town did I realize how much my quality of life was degraded by the long commutes, the over crowding, and the general scramble for access. Now I have 10min commute, up to 20min driving for any errands or shopping, and can't imagine moving back to the traffic jungles of a major city anytime soon. Especially since an average large townhouse in my neighborhood goes for $250K compared to $400-600K in Chicago.

It used to be that in small town America the only decent technology job you could get is by working remotely, or through the local university. Perhaps I got very lucky, but my current company[1] works with the biggest global companies, and I get to ship more software and work with much more diverse technology (most in the mobile space) than in my previous 10 years combined.

All I'm saying is that if are frustrated with Silicon Valley, or any other big city, don't assume that is your only option. I was pleasantly surprised when I landed in Charlottesville, VA.

[1] Its called Willowtree, and we are hiring, but I don't mean this to be recruiting spam, so look it up if you're interested.
What puzzles me is that MS refuses to get away from the OS in many many versions: Home, Pro, Enterprise, Education, Mobile and Mobile Enterprise. You would think that they would have copied Apple on OS and Server and be done with it.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_10#Editions_and_pricing
Personally, it's kind of self-advertising. you can find my products/things if you fly over to my site. Otherwise, some people might be afraid of the competition and are gathering some low-hanging fruit that not a lot are aware of their worth.
I'm working on a friendlier web interface for Amazon S3 to use it as a personal storage for pictures (mostly), files and notes.
> Up until very early 1900 it was the US's lifeblood to not involve itself politically with Europe (or the rest of the world) at all.

Erm... Monroe Doctrine anyone? How about War of 1812? US Leaders visiting France for support in the Revolution?

Seriously, what's with everyone not understanding basic history around here... I do recognize this is a tech forum, but its exceedingly easy to come up with counter-examples to so many historical statements...
I don't know: 55b is a huge number, not unfathomable of course but huge. Salesforce is a great company and a no doubt innovative and disruptive one, but they hold no talent that Microsoft doesn't have and they will hold very few businesses that are not already Microsoft customers in some regard. You might be able to argue that they have a lot of cloud expertise, but Microsoft has already built some incredible cloud offerings in Office365, Outlook and Onedrive that share a lot of the overlap with Salesforce. I have a hard time believing that Microsoft would even want any part of that, it just seems like a huge waste of cash for a very little upside. If they had mentioned Oracle, it might be a little more feasible.
You are told each card has a number on one side and a color on the other. The statement is mentioned in other words in the article - but what I quote is from the very first sentence of the YouTube video used to demonstrate the problem.

The confusion comes from making an assumption that if a card is odd then it cannot also be blue.

if even then blue //what is being asked
if even then blue && if odd then !blue //what people assume
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Ask HN: What are some solutions for managing team passwords?
I'm interested if there are any services or platforms that are good for managing passwords to multiple accounts for team collaboration.

Ideally, the service(s) should offer some means to update passwords and push to team members securely.
Oh God yes.

I look back my days of reading D&D novels (Krynn and TFR mostly) with some fondness. Yes they were part of much larger series, but the books were usually fully contained novels with strong story-lines and conclusions.

Sci-fi is in a similar situation (if you did not consider sci-fi to be fantasy in the first place). Remember reading (possibly your parents collection of) Isaac Asimoc novels? Or possibly novelettes by today's standards. Amazing stories and imaginations in what would be the prologue of a 1500 page monster today. And without the constant graphic violence that has become a hallmark of modern sci-fi.
I fail to see how any answer to the question would reveal any insightful information.
An web browser (HTML5 + Javascript) image editor, https://stet.io/edit/ .
It is a downside but you can avoid it by not looking at the EE code you plan to contribute. Looking at the EE code is optional, it won't be needed to contribute to CE. The GitLab company will solve any merge conflicts that arise.
We have always generally been pretty responsible drug users throughout our lives, and so he knows how to avoid addiction, or to minimize its affect on him. Opioids are easy to escalate in dose and frequency, and for some years I was prescribed oxycodone for my pain, but I did not abuse it, because I had his help in avoiding addiction. I think education is the best tool to avoid this.
Yeah, "man man" is an ethos that doesn't have much currency these days, alas .. but we still have time.

Unix may well be the best-documented OS we've ever had, even still...
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No, the serotonin insufficiency explanation for depression is mostly bullshit. Here is exactly the link for you: http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/04/05/chemical-imbalance/ (and a sequel: http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/04/18/polemical-imbalance/)

> but there's a reason why first line treatment for depression or for anxiety disorders in the UK is not meds but is a (more expensive) talking therapy

It's not actually that the evidence is stronger (as in, there is more supporting evidence) but rather that the evidence suggests the effect size is stronger. Talk therapy is a really good way to treat anxiety in particular. It's a good prosthetic!

I'm not arguing that there's a 1:1 mapping of neurochemicals to disorders; in fact, that's almost certainly the opposite of the case, and one of the main reasons drugs don't seem to beat placebo is that there are bimodal distributions where a given drug will only work on the subset of people with a given symptom where that symptom is caused by that particular chemical imbalance.

Sometimes what clinical depression needs is a dopaminergic (e.g. Wellbutrin). Sometimes what social anxiety needs is an SNRI. It's all a mess. But that doesn't mean that it's not all chemicals, and that there isn't a combination of chemicals that wouldn't put things right in proper dosages. Neurotransmitters are how your brain does multicast electrochemical signalling; any message that's not just a local one between two synapses is travelling via a neurotransmitter.

(I apologize for feeding the troll; I just wanted to write that post above for a long time, and figured this would be a good time to do it. To said troll: I will note that I'm not arguing for the pharmaceutical industry as it stands. My own personal desire is to figure out a set of non-invasive tests that can measure effective "executive weight normalization" on various axes the way dual-N-back measures effective IQ, and then give people a "chemistry kit" of various -ergics, reuptake inhibitors, and inhibitors, and let them do their own science.)
This is a serious problem for me: I want to move to the Bay Area, but it seems like the up-front moving costs and rent will be too prohibitive even if after a few months they settle down to a net profitability. I just don't have $10k+ in the bank to act as an acceptable safety net for the rent, security deposit, moving fees, tickets, etc.

I'd try to do a van-plus-PO-Box-plus-health-club situation but my girlfriend would probably never go for it.
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I've been contemplating a move to FL for some time now except that I don't know much about the place other then a few times I've visited. What counties would you recommend for IT folks?
Similar situation. Cost of living here in Cleveland is practically negligible compared to SV, while my salary is far more comparable.
The puzzles don't seem comparable, at least as presented by the article.

With the cards, you are given cards where you know if the if side of the problem is true or false and cards where you know the tend side of the problem is true or false.

With the people drinking beer, you are never given anyone cases to check where the then side of the problem is right or wrong (everyone is drinking or not drinking, there are no examples of people whose age you know but you don't know if they are drinking).

The people drinking problem is similar to if you gave people cards only with the numbers shown. I suspect the percentage of people getting the number part right would be much higher.

(Note, in the actual age/drinking situation, the experiment is designed to be the same; it just appears the author didn't explain that well in this piece.)
This is exactly why I wonder why some companies write things such as 'must be passionated about Java' in their job postings.

After all, programming languages are just tools. What really matters is the applications you create with them, and that people will find your application useful and use it with pleasure.
We got a chance to take the Faraday Porteur for a spin
Electricity costs vary considerably and solar is already at or better than grid-parity in a lot of places (e.g. Hawaii, Germany). Grid-parity is obviously a goal but does anyone think the current price of electricity contains the fully-loaded cost of carbon pollution and related externalities? Suppose you price carbon at $22 a ton. This is an order of magnitude less than the cost suggested by a team at Stanford. The result would be to drive up the average rate to about 15 cents per KWh. At that price, solar is better than grid-parity almost everywhere (on average etc). Whether that makes it a good investment is a different issue.
This comes across as a pet peeve. If the drives are branded, marketed, and sold as HGST, then they are HGST drives. Even if Yev is wrong, it's possible that WD or Toshiba are maintaining HGST drives to different specifications or QA standards.

And I don't think Yev's wrong, I'm pretty sure I remember reading/hearing the same, and http://www.zdnet.com/article/western-digitals-hgst-cuts-500-... also suggests that WD is maintaining HGST as a separate entity.

Calling HGST drives Western Digital or Toshiba would be more confusing, not less.
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I have to admit I'm kind of puzzled by this article and its countering article "Fantasy cannot build its imaginary worlds in short fiction." Look. There is great fantasy fiction being written in every length. And that's a wonderful situation! Why spend your time complaining because some works aren't the length you would prefer?
any alternative?
Rent control drives rents up for the people who aren't part of the program. Because real estate is so price-inelastic and market rents go up by a much larger percentage than is affected by the rent control, landlords as a group actually make more money under RC. The landlords who own RC apartments may lose in the deal, but landlords whose apartments aren't affected end up winning.

Purchase prices of 40+ years' rent signify a mix of speculation, regulatory corruption, trophy buying, and weird beta effects (i.e. amplified correlations with the national market). For example, Manhattan real estate has a beta of about 3.0, which means that a 50% swell in national prices drive Manhattan real estate up by 3.375x.
Best solution I've found: LastPass.

You can set up teams. Share folders of passwords. And it's all secure and synced between members.
But but but you're destroying the Earth by wanting to live in a peaceful small town where you have to drive to go shopping rather than taking public transit everywhere!
/sarcasm

To be serious, though, threads about various transit innovations tend to be dominated by people who strongly prefer urban living and can't imagine why anyone would want anything else. Your case study is a nice example of why there are good-natured people (engineers even!) who simply prefer a different style of life. It doesn't prove that there are no externalities to suburban living (nor urban living), but we should all remember to be thoughtful that different people may actually enjoy different lifestyles.
I'd be more curious to see a salary range analysis. It would quickly turn up that of hundreds of Germany startups perhaps a ten or so pay some reasonable money while the rest stick with the 40-50K range and set for cheap workforce only.
A joke between friends turned into an application.

Basically a way to send postcards to people with funny images on them. We pride ourselves on being the best meme2mail service.

https://memery.us/
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I wonder whether they'd get different results if they used shapes rather than numbers, or by phrasing it slightly differently:

'All pyramids have red on the back, which cards do you need to turn over to verify this?'

IME people tend to turn off when numbers get shoved under their noses.
> GNU is the Operating System.

No, its not, at least not for the thing Stallman refers to that is "often called Linux". GNU is a set of userland tools. GNU has, at best, no more claim to be the operating system than Linux does.

Actual OS's based on the Linux kernel typically combine Linux, some GNU components, and many non-GNU components. There may be a GNU operating system, but real Linux-based OS's aren't it.
email isn't any more secure than their solution, heck it's probably less secure.
FTP again insecure, FTPS/SFTP maybe but 99.9% of user don't know how to setup an FTP server and it's again goes back to the problem that then you need a server hosted somewhere which is a limitation that will kill the potential market for the product.
The difference between Oracle and Microsoft is that Oracle has offerings in the majority of the places that Salesforce.com plays in. Oracle has a CRM, a Marketing Cloud, Analytics, and so on.

Microsoft has a CRM, but not one with a significant market share. They also have an analytics platform, but not one that is as clearly defined - there's SQL Server, Azure Analytics, BI for 365. They have no marketing management, no real helpdesk/support system, etc.

If anything I would say that there is much less overlap between MSFT and SFDC vs. Oracle and SFDC.

Plus Ellison is an investor in Netsuite - not that it precludes a SFDC acquisition, but it's yet another hurdle.
Older browsers dying so we can actually use Flexbox on sites that have to work back a couple versions will probably help even more.
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find a service where encryption keys belong to you.
I've tried wuala but their java client sucks. after I exceed my storage the client didn't prompt me to upgrade but told me that I was now locked out of wuala and my service suspended and went into an infinite loop forcing me to exit the X-window manager and kill the process.

Also google drive has become annoying (e.g. I upload a ripped DVD movie which I own and paid for and share it with my son who lives in the same house, google tells me that I'm sharing copyright content (wtf)) So they definitely look at content and behave like big brother.
For what is light without dark? what are nice fonts without ugly fonts?
I'm in Central Florida (Tampa/St Pete area). I never look at the local job market, as its not the type of work I do (either finance or healthcare mostly).

IT is taking off in the Tampa/Orlando area, and Miami has a bit of a startup scene that's coming up to speed.

I suggest spending a couple weeks in the area, drive around, see what you like and what you need to live near (I don't have kids, but when I do, I'm home schooling. I work remote, so a commute does't matter. My housing selection was based solely on recreation, or rather, where I could park my sailboat).
Your salary tripled? I think that might be the extraordinary factor here.
Could just be me but it feels like feinternational always show a very inflated price. 3x seems too much specially for companies that are barely 1 year old.

Also, it is extremely difficult to sign an NDA just to inquire more about a sale as feinternational does not give any details upfront. Totally understandable that the company in question wants to maintain its privacy, secrets etc but this is a difficult situation. How do we move forward without knowing more about a company but they want you to sign NDA even without giving any details.