andmarios

docker, kubernetes, prometheus, grafana, influxdb, caddy, vault, etcd, consul, terraform, cockroachdb, alertmanager

Makes you wonder though how despite all these collective spending, Russia with less than 10% of this budget remains a huge threat and NATO should further increase its budget to account for this. Seems more like we waste our money instead of spending wisely, doesn't it? Maybe someone should disrupt the war industry.

I'd say that $25/month in order to get support from the core development team within a couple business days is an excellent deal, especially for an open source software.

Binaries from github should also be free, though they do not have external plugins compiled in.

I guess what I hope about, is that right now the DMCA doesn't provide a good incentive to tackle wrong take-downs. Maybe by making this into a law, the process can get better. Companies will always do the absolute minimum required —and as a shareholder, this would be what I would demand as well. So it's up to us to set this minimum to an acceptable level.

Of course, I understand there are many ways this could go wrong. Law most of the time plays catch-up...

This is not entirely accurate. One thing that doesn't seem to get much publicity, is that this law also fixes the broken DMCA process.

Platforms are expected not only to avoid taking down the wrong content, but they are obligated to have stuff (not computers) that rapidly examine any complaints about unlawful take-downs and re-instate the content.

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20180906IPR...

Not directly related, but sometimes I do wonder how free software can compete with the services of the behemoths (maps, assistants, etc).

So the other day I hit this article [1] on planet.kde.org about KDE Itinerary, an application that can store your boarding passes and offer some additional services, such as calendar integration or notifications in case your destination has a different socket type, they drive on the left side, etc. It seemed quite useful and some parts are novel. Maybe there is a future for phones with just free software.

[1] https://www.volkerkrause.eu/2018/08/25/kde-itinerary-overvie...

No difference, it's KDE + android. Not only it has bidirectional clipboard syncing (so copy a 2FA token from the mobile to the PC) but also other nice features. Like if your phone is ringing, your PC will pause automatically YouTube or play music / spotify tabs on chrome. You can control PC media (e.g. again play music on chrome) from your phone, sync notifications uni or bidirectional, share/browse files, use the phone as a trackpad or keyboard for the PC, answer messages from the PC, etc.

At the end of the article, it says their end-game is to go vegan (no fish, dairy and eggs). So even vegetarians may get second thoughts.

It is not just a name change, this is only the most title-worthy part of the deal.

The FYROM constitution includes claims to Greek territories. Part of the deal (among others) is for these claims to be removed.

This is just a poll from a right (I would argue even far-right) paper, so better take it with a grain of salt.

Interesting story, though I'd argue this wasn't a network attack, rather an attempt to lower latency.

Most of the “software” mentioned in the post, are actually services (slack, zoom, tidal, etc). For many people, it is easier to accept to pay for a service rather than software.

While I do use paid services, I usually “pay” (donate) for free and open source software. Why? It helps me get my work done, support is usually good, I set the price and I know that people who aren't as fortunate as I (being able to afford to buy software) can use it for free and get the same opportunities as me. :)

I believe they don't use Gentoo, rather they use Gentoo's build system (portage) to build ChromeOS. They use their own tree (ebuilds) and they don't include portage into ChromeOS.

I am with RMS on this one. It is not an abortion joke, it is a censorship joke. He doesn't take a stance on abortion (a sensitive matter) but on whether they (FSF or a foreign NGO for example) are allowed to talk about abortion.

Also on any Linux distribution you will find figlet available from the default repositories. :)

http://www.figlet.org/

I believe kind is his default state. It's just that the few times he deviate from this, end up making the news...

Yes, you live better than people 100 years ago. But what about 40 or 20 years ago?

Is it easier for an average person to buy a home or car than it was for their parents? Do they work more or less from their parents? Is it easier to have and raise kids?

I think for a site full of developers, the almost exclusively welcome reactions to such a change are intriguing.

Don't you worry you will have to cross-compile to run your programs on the amd64 server? Or how you are going to debug locally bugs that may arise from a different architecture? Or that homebrew could be in an inconsistent state for some years until all software catches up with the new architecture?

I think it is a common social practice to disclose a pregnancy at the time of your choosing rather than amazon's.

A premature disclosure can significantly affect you.

This would be an interesting case for a GDPR request.

Here is a small issue: https://github.com/claudiodangelis/qr-filetransfer/blob/mast...

I don't know if it is the barcode scanner app (I use the one from zxing, a very popular choice), or the Android implementation (LG, Android 7), but here is a description of what happens:

As soon as I scan the barcode, it is copied to the clipboard. Then something goes to check if the URL is working (the barcode app? android clipboard? not sure). Since you exit after the first request, my browser never gets the chance to download the file. If I remove the os.Exit(), I get it working (and then terminate qr-filetransfer via ctrl+c).

Anyhow, very nice work. Kudos!

Samsung has already demonstrated a MicroLED TV, LG is also on the wagon, yet the article fails to mention at all any of these big display companies and keeps going on about Apple and how it competes with Google and a few startups in the space.

Disappointed that this article has IEEE's brand.

For programmers I think it is more about the tools, you may keep yourself from spending too much on a keyboard, mouse or a new monitor, maybe a license for your favorite ide.

For example I remember when I bought one of the early LCD monitors, using expensive CRTs until then. The difference was huge, suddenly I could code for 10 hours straight without feeling tired at all!

On the other hand I kept away from SSDs for more than I should. Again, such a huge productivity boost by making my computer so much responsive that immediately I thought “why didn't I buy this 2-3 years ago”.

A more recent example, couple years ago I moved and at the first couple months hadn't set up my home office, so I started using my laptop's keyboard and just kept doing it. I thought it was ok until recently I switched back to an external keyboard. My typing improved tremendously, much faster, less errors, actually blind typing all the time now. Again, inertia didn't let me realize what I was losing all these years.

But I also think it is important to start from lesser tools and upgrade as you go. A novice most of the time can't really appreciate a professional tool and as many people wrote in other comments, obsessing too much with the tools at the start can hinder the path towards your real goal.

An update, since I see some upvotes.

I followed @XiZhao's advise and managed to sign up without giving access to github which is very good. If I want to have scans run automatically on github projects, I still have to grant write access. The other option is to run the tests myself, which probably is what someone in a professional setup will do anyway, so I think it is not a very serious issue, although it would be nice to be fixed.

As for my go endeavors, I haven't yet managed to analyze my go projects, but I did have better luck with javascript and scala (gradle) which was very impressive.

Great project overall and I am sure it will be a success, because I know firsthand how cumbersome can be to do this important task manually.

Thanks for the quick reply! Happy to see I can test this without giving github access.

Still have some issues, hope I will work them out.

This looks great, alas I am unable to test it.

When I try to sign up, they want write access to my repos, to the org repos I am a member off, etc. Let's make this clear: I am not giving to anyone write access to my repos and certainly not to other people repos. Read permissions should be enough. You want to add something to my repo? Do a PR.

So what remains, is to test the command line app without using the online service. But the documentation is bad, so I am not able to do that either. No docs for scala, when trying with go, I get cryptic errors, like 'no supported Go build tools detected' until I install a third party go binary (godep or govendor) and 'could not find Go project folder (maybe your Go build tool is not supported?)'.

The idea is great, the execution needs some work.

I don't know what they do on their website but it is as heavy as they can come. Scrolling the article in Chrome, causes music (play music, playing in another tab) to skip!

Personally I strongly disagree with the author here.

A characteristic of intelligent people is that they know their limits, what they know and what they don't, how quickly or slowly they can learn a new thing and in general have a pretty good idea about their intelligence and how they might be positioned across other intelligent people they know well.

You can't get far if you can't perceive your limits and limitations. This is also where your modesty should come from; the understanding of your boundaries.

In the last few years I've spent almost a triple number of days in hospitals (not as a patient). I can tell you from first-hand experience that most patients that are hospitalized —except in the ICU— do not need multiple doctor visits per single day. Maybe they need a couple different specialties, but certainly they do not need multiple doctors of the same specialty in the same day or more than a few specialties.

As has been pointed out in many submissions on HN about USA's medical practices, the main reason you get many visits is to inflate your bill. I think someone even wrote that he was charged $600 per 1-minute visit during his stay in the hospital.