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it did, but systemd is not the silver bullet that will fix it.

"It's often said that a half-truth is worse than a lie. In the case of systemd, a half-improvement is worse than a complete flop. People are focusing on the features they want to use and ignoring the ones that will come back to bite them later.

No, my biggest problem with systemd is that it is repeating the mistakes of System V all over again. It's just given them a change of clothes to appeal to the 21st century."

rest the rest at: http://www.steven-mcdonald.id.au/articles/systemd.shtml

for the debunking of the necessity of having journald see http://lpar.ath0.com/2014/05/18/why-i-dont-like-systemd/
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Filecoin: Distributed p2p file storage
I think that's what Stepwells are all about.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilWbowNv5PI <- This is a huge stepwell, to give you an idea of why these can be so amazing.
As a layman, it sounds like rotating an NP-complete problem.
Facebook Messenger, Whatsapp and Weechat use XMPP. I wouldn't say it is dead.
I'll agree with you on the keyboard, and even the heat issues.. but the mac trackpad is the main reason I'm still on a macbook pro. I also like the better display. However, Lenovo was a pretty bad actor just this past year. Beyond that, I happen to like the metal chasis on the MBP, though I'd really love to see anodized aluminum in either black or oher colors available... but then I'd also like to get user servicable batteries, memory and standard drives again.
I wrote the first full scale technical critique of systemd, so you don't have to tell me all that. I've read the articles, btw.
How hard is it these days to actually get the shares to short?
First thing in my mind was "reality has a well known liberal bias."
I don't understand one thing. All the articles I read about Valeant and Phildor say that Phildor only represents 6% or revenue. Does that mean the other 94% is legitimate and comes from pharmacies where Valeant does not have an option to buy them? That is the piece I don't understand.
You probably know this but just to be clear, to resolve conflicts on your pull request branch, you may merge master into your branch or rebase that branch on master; GitHub makes sense of either kind of resolution.
Almost-automatic driving is dangerous. There's a "deadly valley" which begins at the point where the driver starts to no longer pay attention. It ends when the automation is good enough that the driver doesn't need to pay attention. Between those two limits lies trouble.

The major vehicle manufacturers which have shipped driver assistant systems have put in controls that insist the driver pay attention. Mercedes, BMW, Tesla, and Ford check for hands-on-wheel.[1] They're desperately trying to stay out of the deadly valley.

Here's the problem with that.[2]

Volvo, and maybe BMW, have a second problem - too many modes and too many options. There are lots of semi-auto options available, and they may or may not be installed on any given vehicle. Here's what happened with someone who ordered self-parking without buying the "pedestrian detection" option.[3] Bad idea selling that option combination. It's been a learning experience for Volvo.

[1] http://www.greencarcongress.com/2015/07/20150713-eclass.html
[2] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2903692/Warning-reck...
[3] http://fusion.net/story/139703/self-parking-car-accident-no-...
yea, i tried to run it on real hardware a couple of years ago, and the response from the community was "no one does that, use virtualization."

i got the sense that it was a friendly group. expressing interest, even as someone who just wanted to play around and see what it was all about, was well-received.
The average CEO makes about the same amount of money as the average dentist. When you get to the big scary numbers, you're talking about the top 100 highest-paid CEOs, not CEOs in general. Out of about a quarter-million CEOS around the country, a very very few of them are managing companies the size of Walmart and it's not at all obvious (at least, not to me) that those few are being overpaid.

> there are dozens of people who can make those decisions, and many could do so for far less.

Sure, or you could make the decisions by having a monkey throw darts at a newspaper for free. The important question is whether those dozens of people earning less would make as good decisions as the one currently doing the job. If the current CEO's decisions are even very slightly better he's worth the money given that level of scale.

Similarly, there are dozens of people who could play basketball for less so there was no need to pay Michael Jordan the big bucks.
I ran my own xmpp server for a long time as well. Once gmail stopped federating xmpp (hangouts "upgrade"), most of my contacts just...went dark -- they still showed as online, but they never got messages anymore. The few contacts who also ran their own servers, or used a public one, eventually gave up and stopped using it too, probably because most of their friends were on gmail too.

So yeah. I think xmpp is pretty much dead, and google killed it.
Oddly, irc still lives on!
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So RedHat's choices impact Debian/Ubuntu, Arch, and SUSE so much? Honest question; I don't know the details. Or are you saying that distros rely on other components that are simply not feasible (maintained) anymore, so they have no choice?

Just seems like if it's as bad as so many say, it just doesn't make sense for all these distros to blindly go along. Even the GNOME lockin doesn't seem like it'd explain it.
Hypothetical logic is flawed anyway. Higher ability Asian graduates could be less / only equally successful in the workplace due to pervasive external bias too. A lot of this is exacerbated by the fact that "soft skills" are more important for high status careers, and your "soft skills" are pretty much defined by tribal associations. It's the core of how we interact socially, and it causes problems that are really only fixed by alleviating scarcity.
To be sure, if it's the most prevalent vegetable across generations, there's going to be a lot more recipes and pairings than with other vegetables.
If the views are diverse when viewed across all disciplines but a monoculture inside, then you've made an argument in favor of the position you're against.
I don't understand the hard on people around here have for predicting the collapse of sports. It's like the very idea of getting revenge on the jocks makes you all salivate. Revenge of the nerds writ large? Or is it an extension of the 'toxic testosterone' propaganda?
You need to rewrite your landing page. It currently sounds like it was written by someone who speaks English as a second language. Here is the current text:

Polghi is a niche fashion brand that offers a contemporary view of “elegant simplicity”.
The designs of our exclusive clothing and accessories line have been conceptualised to facilitate comfortable yet refined outfits.

Polghi is a blend of the finest artisan traditions of "Made-in-Italy" and the newest technological trends. We rigourously follow the life of our range of pure cashmere products from their origin as handpicked fibres to post-manufacturing quality control.

Our dedication to excellence and to the highest quality in all our endeavors is something we wish our customers to experience firsthand.

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Suggested edits to start:

Polghi is a new brand that offers a contemporary view of elegant simplicity.
Our exclusive line of clothing and accessories are comfortable to wear yet present a refined image.

We blend the finest artisan traditions of Made-in-Italy with the newest technology to bring you practical beauty. We follow the life of our pure cashmere products from their origin as handpicked fibres to post-manufacturing to ensure the highest quality control.

Our dedication to excellence and to the highest quality brings the best and most beautiful fabrics and designs to our customers.

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Do not use the word niche. It signals small rather than exclusive. If you sell high end clothes, you need to be a bit of a snob about it.
This is really fantastic. I hope they can scale out to more villages in Mexico and around the world.

In such remote places, there are regular outbreaks of serious waterborne diseases like cholera and dysentary, hepatitis A is widespread, and amoebas, giardia, schistosoma, various parasitic worms, etc. are endemic.

The hard part is setting up the social/institutional structures to maintain the equipment. The technological problems per se are relatively straightforward at this point.

Rural peasants typically don’t have the technical knowledge, connections, or capital to set up their own water treatment facilities, and often communities are too remote and sparsely populated to be worth piping fresh water in from a long distance.

I particularly appreciated how the MIT engineers trained local residents to operate and maintain the system, and they set up enough payment structure for the plant to pay for its ongoing costs. If that can be sustained indefinitely without too much need for additional external help, then the project should hopefully keep people healthy for decades, on only a small up-front investment.
In addition to losing less information, your solution allows you to keep merge conflict resolution off of master entirely (if that's your choice).
This is the ironic part -- are hackers who attend & present at Defcon using AppleTV?
Everyone dismissing the notion of political diversity being a problem because of the author's institutional affiliation should check out this site:

http://heterodoxacademy.org/problems/

It's a group of political scientists from a wide range of well respected schools (Harvard, Northwestern, Penn, NYU, Georgetown) making the exact same argument.

It's one thing to call into the question the motives of the AEI president, another to make the same argument against Harvard's Steven Pinker.
Nothing of value has happened in last 30 years, since the introduction of low-powered osmosis with feedback loop. I recall hand-cranked devices came about 1985 and I also remember I bought 6 watts solar panel for 80 Australian dollars.

So this is not an important piece of news at all. Sorry.
Bisect has saved us many times. Learn it, master it!
Minsky certainly knows what the experts can do: he and Seymour Papert more than decimated research in neural networks by writing "Perceptrons".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptrons_(book)

He remains critical of neuroscience:

http://luttrellica.blogspot.com/2007/01/marvin-minsky-bashes...

I've sometimes thought that AI would be solved only once Minsky passed from the scene.
Indeed. The problem is that people frequently infer unfair rules from unequal outcomes, without taking into account the possibility of systematic group differences.

Alan: I believe in equality of opportunity, not equality of outcome.

Bob: How do you know there isn't equality of opportunity?

Alan: Well, just look at how unequal the outcomes are!

At this point, Bob would be wise to change the subject, because if he pressed on, he might get this:

Bob: Can you give me an example?

Alan: Group X is underrepresented in Field Y.

Bob: Maybe Group X isn't as good at Field Y.

Alan: What? That's racist and/or sexist!

And if Bob were to make a comment to this effect on Hacker News, he's probably get downvoted. This is because most people agree with Alan, and many of them abuse their downvote privileges to punish ideas they disagree with rather than those that don't further the discussion. This degrades the quality of discourse, but at least it helps reassure the downvoters that they aren't racist and/or sexist.
Right, because the other 90% of the planetary population hasn't learned about life.
> while the US Republican party has become more radicalized

Not picking on you specially, but I've noticed that the word reactionary has been dropped from the political lexicon. I feel kind of silly rooting for a word to be used more, but most of the time that I see "radical" applied to Republicans, I think "reactionary" would be a better fit..
Machine that could revolutionize the way we use energy
It doesn't seem to respond to tapping, is that right? Gotta click it? And there's no buttons, so no easy way to right or middle click (middle click being great for tab management or entering scroll mode). What do you like about it so much?

Lenovo is shit and I despise them. But they are the only ones making ThinkPads so sorta no choice there.

User replaceable parts are great. X250 shipped when 16GB SODIMMs weren't common. Now that they are, it was a simple 5 minute upgrade.
Then use linux.
I thought YouTube was pretty popular nowadays, and you can watch the CCC videos there.
I seriously doubt this student "only knows how to produce a particular answer for a particular question". Are you claiming he could compute 3 times 5 but not 5 times 3?

On the contrary, I think this student may be showing that he knew the two techniques, and that he is smart enough to pick the easier computation.

But yes, if your goal is to kill any creativity in intelligent should punish kids that deviate from the lines hard.

If a teacher asked "compute 1000 x 1", no sane kid would do "1 plus 1 equals 2; 2 plus 1 equals 3;...; 999 plus one equals 1000".

This teacher would have failed Carl Friedrich Gauss, too, for computing sum(1,100) in seconds.
Thank you. The article made it sound to me like struct Foo<'c>, 'c is the lifetime of the struct. Am I correct in thinking that, in reality, 'c must live as long or outlive the struct?
I've also been running my own federated XMPP server for a few years. To my dismay I discovered about a month ago, that a Gmail user on the "new Hangouts UI" never saw me as online. I could send them messages but they just got dumped into an "email"-looking message within Gmail, which I don't think even registered as unread. You'd have to go looking to find it at all. I think they could send me messages, but why would they if I never appear to be online? If the Gmail user reverted to the "old chat", things seemed to work as expected. They're nice enough to let you toggle between them for now, but my friend said only the new interface allows free SMSing or something.

Don't take my word too heavily, as this was just what I saw in a quick test with one Gmail account of my own. But I decided if Google is going to basically hellban me, and since almost all of my contacts are on Gmail anyway, I'd just transition to a Gmail account to talk to them. I only have one contact that's not on Gmail, and it's an acquaintance I'll probably not talk to again. Maybe I'll keep the server running just for decentralized geek-cred. At least Google is nice enough to let me use a desktop client, for now.

I also noticed Google doesn't seem to support encryption on federated chats. I guess the proper solution is something like OTR anyway, but that was disappointing to see.
In the post, PG states that First Round's study is evidence of gender bias in VC financing. But footnote [2] is important: Uber was excluded as an outlier. Now...excluding Uber is reasonable (it is sort of an outlier), but so is not excluding it (it was a company that First Round invested in). When the conclusion from a data analysis depends on which way you go on something like this - which of two reasonable alternatives you pick - then the results are fragile and they don't really support either conclusion very well.
that is not at all what happened. Here's Kay Sievers, defiantly posting after in his own words after the incident: https://plus.google.com/+KaySievers/posts/3cWXzYqB6MB
If a libertarian took a broad enough view of fraud to object to Valeant's core business tactics then we'd get along just fine. I suspect that most do not.

Tactic 1: buying other firms' medicines and then swiftly hiking their prices

Tactic 2: exploiting the principal agent problem between insurer and insuree with bribes (err, I mean "coupons")

There was a comparison to Enron earlier in this thread. While accounting fraud brought them down, their core business model was legal, compatible with market philosophy, and familiar:

Tactic 3: buying up the power generation infrastructure and creating artificial scarcity to ramp prices.

For companies that are actively engaging in this sort of nonsense, see telcos. Or Goldman Sachs -- they were in the news a while ago for doing it with Aluminum. Anyway, the fraud is almost incidental, it's the "innovative" business models that drive me nuts. Because at the same time as pharma investors, execs, and lawyers are raking in the cash, Chem PhDs and postdocs are getting paid peanuts if they can find a job at all: http://chemjobber.blogspot.com/2010/07/whats-happening-to-ph...

> To illuminate for US readers, a UK-based PhD chemist such as myself with about 10 years post-PhD experience can expect to earn 35-40k GBP, which translates to about 55-60k USD

No, I'm not one, I code now, but I would have chosen differently if the market hadn't hammered so hard to shoo me away from contributing to, IMO, the more important cause. I'm convinced that the non-excludable (and therefore "valueless," per the market's reasoning) goods produced in academia account for a healthy fraction of the value in the pharma and medical industries, and it pains me that the market not only disagrees but strenuously so. It gets its priorities not just wrong but completely backwards. A "circus of values," as one popular philosopher put it.
Methamphetamine doesn't cause dental problems really. Just like Krokodil (desomorphine) doesn't cause the horrible issues you see in the news. It's just unhygienic users not taking care of themselves.

Just like if you start taking a diuretic you should increase water intake, other medicines require other steps.
oh my good. use 15 instead of 9. you savage!
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I feel this post confuses two different notions of lifetime. And also mixes concrete lifetimes with lifetime parameters.

There's the CS notion of liveness, and then there's the lifetime notation in Rust.

> To know when to deallocate objects

This is handled by the CS notion of liveness. Well, an approximation to it. "Things are live until they are used, or until they can no longer be used".

The deallocation comes from Rust's affine type system.

In fact, Box<T> and other self-deallocating things don't have an associated "lifetime" in the Rust sense of the word, at least not one that dictates their deallocation.

The lifetime syntax is basically a form of generics which lets one put constraints on the allowed liveness of &-pointers and their ilk.

> example_function<'a> names the lifetime defined by this function, called 'a.

This isn't true. There does exist an anonymous inner lifetime for the scope of the function. It's not `'a`

What's happening here is that we're saying, "For any lifetime `'a`, we can have a version of example_function which returns a pointer which can live that long.". This doesn't compile, because the compiler knows that this function can only return pointers which live as long as its scope or less, not "any" lifetime. (Which is impossible to return from anyway).

This becomes clearer when you have a function like `fn foo<'a> (x: &'a [u8]) -> &'a u8 { &x[0] }` (FWIW if you omit the lifetimes Rust will elide them and internally produce the same function). Here, what we're saying is, "For any lifetime 'a, foo can take a slice that lives as long as 'a and return a pointer that lives as long as 'a". This compiles, because the compiler can see that a reference to x will live as long as x itself.

Similarly, with structs:

> Sheep<'c> instead of Sheep
>
> This is not doing anything concrete. It's just giving a name to the lifetime that Sheep structs can last for.

This is wrong, too. It's giving a _parameter_ to Sheep, saying "Every Sheep has an associated lifetime 'c, which is the lifetime of its inner reference".

In fact, it is possible to define the body of sheep in such a way that Sheep is guaranteed to live _longer_ than `'c` (instead of shorter, as in the example above). This is explained in the Rustonomicon (http://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/nomicon/subtyping.html). But it's an advanced topic, doesn't crop up often in actual Rust programming.
Arch linux spawned a distro called manjaro which leads the way on not joining the systemd bandwagon. Debian got forked into devuan which is debian minus systemd. As systemd originated from redhat it is expected that the other faces of redhat namely fedora and centos would also feature systemd.

Then there is slackware, gentoo, pclinuxos that either did not bit the systemd bullet or offer alternative option. Not sure about ubuntu.
This is pretty cool. Are there any practical applications? It seems the CSS images are orders magnitudes larger.
Relevant: http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/07/22/freedom-on-the-centrali...
But goto-based workflows are natural, if you are accustomed to writing assembly on a CPU that doesn't have a hardware stack :-)
Good to know someone else experienced this. Federation with new Hangouts may not be completely dead -- see my sibling comment if you're interested -- but they crippled it so bad, it may as well be. It's such weird behavior that I almost wonder if it's an accidental regression, as I don't why they'd bother to have it almost-work like that.
I would argue they are unenforceable "adhesion" contracts, which are basically non-negotiable contracts where one party has more power over the other, such as rental car, cell phone, and back of the form type contracts. Arbitration clauses are not some giant conspiracy by big business. The courts have been pushing it for years. True, they found a loophole to avoid class action suits, but this could be easily remedied by the legislatures.
Yeah, the lifetimes on a struct are the lifetimes of things that the struct points to, not an instance of the struct itself. For an instance to be valid, everything it points to must be valid, so if `foo: Foo<'c>`, `foo` cannot be stored for longer than `'c`. E.g. this code is invalid, because the `Foo` instance would live longer than the thing it points to:

let foo = {
let age = 0;
Foo { age: &age }
};

The `age` variable goes out of scope at the } (i.e. the maximum possible lifetime for &age ends there), and hence letting the `Foo` escape from that scope would be a bad idea.

(NB. this applies to the "core" lifetime'd types like `&'c T` too: that is really just a nicer way to write a parameterised type like `Ref<'c, T>`. So the rule "cannot return a reference to a local variable" is the same rule that stops a `Foo<'c>` living too long.)
Watching videos from https://archive.fosdem.org/2015/schedule/speaker/samuel_thib... it felt like he used as it's main OS[1].

[1] he talked about HURD's advantages for mounting remote iso images, it felt a little too practical not to be something someone experience on his own daily driver.
Why do you need to short if you can just purchase (or sell) options?
There are plenty of users of those distributions (sysadmins) who aren't happy about the switch to systemd but, for various reasons, are stuck with it.

Fortunately for me, I'm not one of them.
The article is wrong/misguided. See my comment above :)

When you say `Foo<'c>`, all you're saying is that each `Foo` instance has an associated lifetime `'c`, similar to a type parameter. When you add the `x: &'c u8` field, then you're saying that "this lifetime is the lifetime of the inner u8".

> Am I correct in thinking that, in reality, 'c must live as long or outlive the struct

For the specific example, yes. It's possible to have an example where 'c must be shorter lived, and cannot outlive the struct.

If you had an &mut instead of & there, then 'c must live exactly as long as the struct.
Facebook Messenger deprecated XMPP support: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/chat
Whatsapp is built using XMPP, but only as a basis. They don't want you to use it with anything but their official clients.
I don't know enough about wechat.

All of them never had federation support