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Re:Show HN: Minimal build system using just /bin/sh on Friday August 18, 2017 @01:32AM (#15043821)
"notabug.org"... interesting.

Anyway, how does this compare, features-wise, with GNU Make? For example with make you have `./configure` files, do I also have them here?

Re:Show HN: Mathcha – Online Mathematics Editor on Sunday August 13, 2017 @04:34AM (#15002098)
License?
If they advertise a software as an "Anonymous Discussion Platform", the minimum standard that I think of is a P2P network built on top of GNUnet, Tor, or other similar networks.
What does "anonymous" mean in this context? Simply because I get to post a message without registering a nickname, it doesn't mean I'm anonymous...
Re:Ask HN: What is your content discovery daily routine? on Thursday August 03, 2017 @08:39AM (#14918990)
RSS, email subscriptions (mailing lists), and content aggregators for specific topics like HN or www.freepo.st

I used to read reddit years ago, but nowadays it's just too much noise and bad content (even the slower subreddits).

Re:Show HN: Add a play button next to IPA on Wikipedia on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @09:04AM (#14653679)
I think the idea behind the new "WebExtensions" is precisely "write once - run everywhere". But I don't know if this add-on is one of them.
Re:Show HN: Add a play button next to IPA on Wikipedia on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @05:22AM (#14652751)
How does this work? Where does the audio come from? Does it use some database of recorded IPA sounds, or does it convert from text to speech on the fly?
Re:Show HN: Add a play button next to IPA on Wikipedia on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @05:19AM (#14652740)
Is this add-on also available for Firefox?
Re:MusicBrainz: an open music encyclopedia on Monday June 05, 2017 @01:43PM (#14489549)
Looks like GraphBrainz stands for "MusicBrainz + GraphQL". Unfortunately, this has nothing to do with RDF.
Re:Agens Graph – PostgreSQL Based Graph Database on Sunday June 04, 2017 @05:18AM (#14480499)
But it's not a "native" store. It's just a layer on top of other RDBMSes.
Re:MusicBrainz: an open music encyclopedia on Sunday June 04, 2017 @05:17AM (#14480496)
What about http://linkedbrainz.org ? Is it a dead project?
Re:Agens Graph – PostgreSQL Based Graph Database on Saturday June 03, 2017 @04:56PM (#14478456)
According to [this page](https://neo4j.com/editions/) it's not. In fact, they are restricting important functionalities to their Enterprise Edition exclusively. Which means, the codebase is not the same.
Re:Agens Graph – PostgreSQL Based Graph Database on Monday May 29, 2017 @03:01PM (#14440755)
So, are you saying that Neo4j is 100% free as in "100% AGPL, otherwise Commercial License if you don't want to use the AGPL"? In other words, the code is exactly the same, only with a different license?
Re:Agens Graph – PostgreSQL Based Graph Database on Monday May 29, 2017 @02:52PM (#14440710)
I agree. This is not the point though, nor what I said.
Re:Agens Graph – PostgreSQL Based Graph Database on Sunday May 28, 2017 @02:24AM (#14433330)
The Enterprise Edition is not AGPL. It's under one of "Neo4j Commercial License", "Neo4j Evaluation License", "Neo4j Educational License", or "Fair Trade Licensing". In other words it's not free. Why would I want to use the "Community Edition" of a company whose interest is to force me into buying their Enterprise Edition? The more people use this "Community Edition", and the more they are encouraged to force their "Enterprise Edition" under my throat, because "it will be easier to buy a proprietary plugin than change database". They are already restricting the use of important features such as "Unlimited graph size", "Database storage reallocation", "Schema constraints", "Runtime to accelerate common queries", "Role-based security", "Kerberos Security", "Load balancing", etc. Why would I want to get into this?! I'd rather spend my time learning and contributing to Jena or Janus than a bait "Community Edition".
Re:Agens Graph – PostgreSQL Based Graph Database on Saturday May 27, 2017 @07:06AM (#14429668)
There isn't a lot of competition in the "free/libre database" market though. The only serious players are Jena/Fuseki (an RDF store) and Janus (a graph store).
Re:A proposal to move Gnome to GitLab on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @03:01AM (#14356234)
No you're not the only one :) I quote 100% what you said. Also I think you don't hear much complaints simply because people quit GitLab once they try it and just move to GitHub instead (or something else for self hosting).
Is there anything like this for SPARQL endpoints?
Re:Show HN: Discopedia on Friday March 24, 2017 @01:22AM (#13946826)
Where do you get the data from?
> I'll move on to things like GitLab or IPFS for transmitting projects I'm working on.

Or NotABug (https://notabug.org) which is a lot more friendlier toward open source projects. IPFS sounds good, I'd love to see something P2P in this space, but nothing P2P seems to be mature enough.