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> I've been happily using macOS server at home for a few months. It's not a production-ready deployment, but I haven't had any complaints.

It's not on AWS. Your use case is just a hobby or one man shop or just one data point. It doesn't necessarily scale well for other use cases.

I think what other people are pointing out is that companies aren't lining up to use it or replacing it over a linux server or window server.
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Come back and say that when you've tried using systemctl to find out why a service is failing. 200-line zero-content error messages are what finally made me purge systemd from my machines.
Maybe eventually Linus will become so fed up with systemd, that he would write an init system of his own, which would become a major success just like git did. Then conversations like this one will be pointless, because everyone and their dog with the possible exception of RedHat would have long switched to Linus' init.

Systemd and the whole controversy around it is anything but funny. It's upsetting and it already divided the community.
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He was not paid fot making that software so it is his/hers. If he/she did it on his own time in my mind he is the owner of the code not the company. Sell the license to use to other companies. Yearly or monthly license to use just like for example Adobe does?
This works for non-form elements as well which was a necessity in my case.
We don't have a monopoly on clever CS people =). I'm pretty sure Dropbox and Box.net have lots of smart people working for them as well. (In fact, I have friends at Dropbox)

I'm not an expert in that specific bug, so I won't speculate publicly - but the memory issue is something that has seen steady commits over time from various people who are plugging away diligently at it. It's a bit of a moving target, and there is a tradeoff. The customer's case is a bit of an edge case, and at the extreme end of things.

In terms of the customer support side of things, I don't know all the specifics of what happened, so I won't comment further. However, my details are on HN, so feel free to PM if you want me to see what I can do internally.
Lack of resources can make the kindest, most altruistic person behave in extremely ugly, selfish ways.

You don't know who someone is until you see them go through poverty. Also, you don't know who you are yourself until you experience that terrible feeling of scarcity.

For me, greed is the worst human attribute. When I see rich people being greedy, I find it hard to imagine how much worse they would be as human beings if they were poor.
The last point is contentious IMO. Why wouldn't there be a fee market with an unlimited block size? The miners would still want to make a profit, and would set fees to a level they deem profitable.
Obviously no, because it doesn't increase.

Like with credit cards, most of the money on loans is not paid on the default interest and with the perfect payment schedule, but on late payments.
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Spark MLLib both have high-performance distributed training algorithms for gradient boosted trees.

Well it exists, but I wouldn't describe it as high performance in either accuracy or speed.

I'm a big fan of Spark, but Spark ML needs some love from people who actually use it.

Until that happens, just use XGB (which now has Spark integration[1])

[1] http://dmlc.ml/2016/03/14/xgboost4j-portable-distributed-xgb...
Perhaps. But then again, the RHEL people really need many of the features SystemD offers. The Ubuntu Beta people can keep running init if they must.
Yes, and by another mechanism with different attributes.
> I'm not the type of person that doesn't know how to take breaks

May I respectfully suggest that a longer mental health vacation may be in order? It sounds a bit like burnout.
I'd say the exact opposite. If it's successful, it's competitors (the vastly powerful Telco/Cable/ISP hybrid monstrosities that significantly grew from the scattered bits of Ma Bell) will move to squash it - Making deals with sports broadcasters, simply cutting off the deals with Google, or putting pressure on Google in other ways - They're gearing up to silently disrupt Google in a variety of ways, many of them underhanded (Which is what the Net Neutrality debate is actually about - They're negotiating for rents from Google, and the question isn't if they will, but how much).

It's only if it manages to gather steam slowly that it has a chance of really disrupting the networks.

(Of course, I still really wish Google had simply starved the beast in the early tens; In 2010 or 2011, Google could simply have put less effort into copyright protection and more into original programming, and utterly rewritten the Movie and TV industries in one fell swoop)
It seems like most of these could potentially have been viable products, but none of them were ever going to be huge businesses making billions a year.

Why isn't a niche product making people wealthy seen as good enough anymore?
What if that African kid comes up with a "bullshit" idea that's profitable? e.g sports betting, USSD rebill, celebrity gossip etc, which are all billion dollar niches in Africa. Would you still fund him in that case?
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> a couple of brilliant assholes

Define brilliant. One changed the computing landscape by starting (and running for decades) the biggest opensource copyleft project in the history of mankind; the other is a bog-standard corporate engineer who simply leverages his parent company status to piss off most people and get away with it. Placing them on the same level is an insult to Linus, who might occasionally be an asshole but is still the most effective leader the opensource community has ever seen.
Have you read the article? He's nuanced on refactoring in a manner that the originator of this thread doesn't describe.

When you hear “refactoring” it’s a bit more of a yellow flag. Technical debt is a real thing that needs to be addressed and that you should be aware of. I recommend reading Paying Down Your Technical Debt to get a basic understanding of the concept.

However, it can also be just an excuse to change things to some conception of “better” for no real benefit. Whatever better means to that programmer today, you can be confident that they’ll think it’s shit in a couple of years as they gain more experience and skill. That’s totally fine, but you can’t afford to get caught up in a loop of always retrofitting everything to “better” every time the definition of better changes. Unless you’re Google, in which case you keep doing that until some other team solves the actual problem and your project gets deprecated.
Even worse than a non-technical manager is a mediocre developer turned mediocre manager.
What were the gradually escalating intimate questions asked?
Because the latter community enjoys a hodgepodge of scripts doing arbitrary things instead of a standardized well organized mechanism?
OS X in incresingly less Unix-like with every new version. They even changed its name back to MacOS.
User of desktop linux here (after 3 years of trying and failing with OS X).

Also people at work are allowed to use desktop linux at work as long as we don't bother IT.

(This with a serious company with even older more seriois roots.)

I think desktop linux is still on the rise.
If you are hiring tens of thousands of employees, its impossible to expect all will be top of the line.

My guess is Google has plenty of bad programmers, or worse Imposters.
> being difficult and have the group bond over that.

or, the sociopath way, which is even faster: identify the group difficult subject and join the pileup on it without adding new opinions but just reflecting and circulating those of others in the group.
> if you stood at the end of the valley when the shadows had grown long, then you had better run back to the cave or face the evening hunt of the local tigers

Is there such a thing as an evening hunt for the tigers? I'm not saying there isn't, I just haven't heard it mentioned in any tv program about tigers.
Mine has permanent errors for a bunch of folders and keeps disconnecting from a local peer on LAN. I gave up on it within a week.

Still looking for something I can use like AirDrop but Mac<->Windows
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Quite simply, because its fun... and interesting. Its similar to why Gilfoyle hacked the smart fridge.
If "they were told" she was going to resign and still Jonathan Teo did nothing, his words now ring hollow. He may not have harassed women himself but his inaction subjected them to the ongoing unsavory, unprofessional and inexcusable behavior of Caldbeck.

Caldbeck's actions of contacting the former partner's LinkedIn network to falsely state she was fired is beyond the pale of human decency. I guess it is true that desperate times call for desperate measures. Maybe his statement of the former Binary partner never working in SV again may be a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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> we are aware of the issue, and are definitely working on it.

I am guessing the fix for this issue would be to download the new Google Backup & Sync app [1][2] that replaces the current Google Drive client and is meant to be released on Wednesday [3]? :)

[1] https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2017/06/backup-and-sync...

[2] http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/07/01/googles-updated-driv...

[3] https://gsuite.google.com/whatsnew/calendar/
You can google how to do the equivalent to `tail -f /var/log/foo.log` in a minute.

What do you mean by ./just/run/some.sh?
> making SVN decline in popularity

Depends on the business area. I am still using SVN in 100% of our customers.

And they don't seem keen to move into Git anytime soon.
I guessed an exponential distribution of wealth right after the problem was posed. Apparently years of crying hot tears over agent-based economic simulations served my intuition well.
You'd know better than I would, though I'm not inclined to apologize. I will use more mildly negative language henceforth, however.

My problems with Grsecurity are, in order of importance:

- This whole licensing thing. I like the GPL. I publish much of my software under the GPL. I want the GPL to be a real thing that we all respect and abide by. When someone breaks that social contract, we all lose.

- The lack of effort to work with the rest of the kernel community. They've got this huge stack of patches (and it is huge), they're selling it to a bunch of folks (some of whom probably know enough to be making security decisions, many of whom probably don't), and yet they don't really seem interested in being a member of the OSS community.

- There's a recurring theme (even before now, I've heard this argument) of people asserting that someone attacked their server, and, because they had grsec, it crashed instead of allowing the attacker to exploit the system. As though that's not a successful attack in and of itself. The quality of grsecurity code has been called into question by more than one kernel dev, including Linus.

- There's some misleading marketing going on somewhere. I happen to work in the industry sort of parallel to grsecurity. We have a handful of the same customers, there's some overlap in the systems we see and the ones they exist on. For whatever reason, our users who have grsecurity on their systems are the most poorly informed about how the security features of a Linux system fit together (and they think all of them come from grsecurity, even though usually it's none of the ones we're talking about or helping them with). I don't know if grsecurity folks are misleading their customers, or people are just filling in the blanks with where security comes from (obviously it's the security product they paid money for, rather than the kernel itself which was free and thus obviously worthless). It's like the Fox News of kernel patches, somehow messing with it makes people less knowledgeable about the security of their systems.

It's a personal pet peeve, I guess. But, there are, as I said, good ideas in grsecurity. I wish they'd go through the usual process of getting things into the kernel. As it is, they've got a cool research kernel that's unfortunately been pushed into production on some of the most dangerous systems out there (shared hosting and multi-tenancy systems that have barely trusted users and frequently run poorly maintained web apps that often expose the system to untrusted code).

I'm rambling a bit here, but my point is, I won't call it snake oil anymore, but I'm probably not gonna shower it with praise, either. The folks building it are clearly very smart. I really don't mean to denigrate their skills, their experience, or even the software they've built. I just wish they worked with the kernel community more, and I wish whoever is spreading around myths about kernel security and how grsec interacts with it would stop doing so.
As an introvert, I used to get fooled by this in college, I would think that this person was somewhat close when they in fact had 100 other friends in my position... After a while though, you understand that their level of empathy just doesn't measure up to your expectations and you gradually part ways.
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For historical context:

June 12, 2010, 08:14:44 PM

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I have the same question about Google translate. I'm not convinced that its errors can simply be chalked up to neural networks. As you said, they ought to be constantly trying to improve their word segmentation and datasets.

I'm not convinced that Google Translate is as major of a focus at Google as other things.

Perhaps I'm wrong, and it's just a hard problem, but the translations I've seen haven't improved as much over the years as I expected given progress in other areas of AI.

They may be more focused on adding new languages than improving existing ones. Don't know.

Japanese translation is pretty good. Chinese is bad. I guess Chinese is harder because nobody really uses any phonetic writing for reading beyond grade schools. And then there is traditional/simplified, and, I imagine, other differences between how different regions use characters. Baidu's translate is better than Facebook/Google in some cases.

I wonder if translation just isn't as sexy as image recognition and self driving cars, therefore research dollars aren't as focused on it.
For the most part, it is that the articles are extracted (Pocket/Instapaper style) for easy read.
>People love to read morals, ethics, and politics into analyzing bug bounty submissions, but none of that is the primary factor here.

Just disregarding these things and justify it with "economics" or "it's bad business" doesn't make ethics disappear. I'm guessing you wouldn't sell exploits to ISIS even if they were the highest bidder..? What about North Korea? China? Russia? Syria? The US? The US with Trump in charge?

I personally like tptacek's comment on this from last year:

>None of them are adequate compensation for the full-time work of someone who can find those kinds of bugs. Nor are they meant to be. If you can, for instance, find a bug that allows you to violate the integrity of the SEP, you have a market value as a consultant significantly higher than that $100k bug bounty --- which will become apparent pretty quickly after Apple publicly thanks you for submitting the bug, as they've promised to do.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12230677
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Will fix. I was in a rush.
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> my duty is to act as a bridge betweeen you and my bosses and my customers and my customer service etc.

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> You're arguing a technicality regarding one pithy sentence in my comment.

You're right. My comment was nothing about the case involving Caldbeck, in fact, my entire point was to call out that pithy comment because I don't think it's something that is generally true (even if it might be true in this case).
Interesting. I hadn't thought through the scale of a large bank.
The only thing, is that you can't code? By that do you mean your ability to type stuff into a computer? Being able to engineer software is quite different from "coding". This is typical case of not knowing what you don't know.

The manager is basically a group resource that _developers_ use. Instead of thinking of yourself as a boss of developers, think of yourself as a secretary that serves the developer team. For that you don't have to be very skilled, you just need to be able to communicate basic things, and know a little bit of lingo, which I'm sure you've been able to master.
systemd has a few nice ideas, and it might be alright for whatever your use case is. I'm working on a product which uses it as its init system, and it's an endless source of problems. Its flaws are deep and unfortunately pervasive.
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I believe personal experience is anecdotal at best and not "the universe". My anecdotal experience with pulseaudio is that it simply does not like my setup (internal sound card + 4 external usb card + occasional hdmi sound transport) and having an occasional pop or crack on a 10kW PA system is not desirable.

I've read a pulseaudio guru post explaining that when you know what you are doing you can work out a pulseaudio config that reduce pulseaudio latency issues, real time resampling, drop outs and high cpu usage. Just don't use the default config.
When you log out of your desktop session, does mpd continue playing? I have mpd setup to stream via icecast so I can listen to my music remotely and the issue I was having was that when I logged out of my desktop, the music would stop playing because the sound server was tied to my desktop session.
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I think one of the issues is that in VCs allow the hottest start-ups to take money off the table in later funding rounds. So the question in an entrepreneur's mind becomes whether he should build slowly and make a few hundred thousand a year steadily, or whether he should pump up with VC money, knowing he'll be allowed to take a couple million off the table before the music stops. It's a no brainer in my mind.
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> How, exactly, has systemd "broken user space"?

userspace was working, systemd got an update, userspace now not working.
Also, alsa+dmix does everything pulseaudio does (for all my use cases) without having to run an extra daemon / abstraction layer.
You're totally correct. But I never wanted to. I do love technology and certainly try not to ignorant of current and future technologies. I respect the art of the programmer. But to be slightly rude just to make a point: an average or above average coder is a commodity. In theory many many people could do your job. But a great manager is not a commodity. They are highly prized and compensated. They can break down barriers and fight fight fight.

You are right not to be a burden in the conversation. You need to kill your Ego - talking endless confusing bullshit to make yourself seem important is a nightmare. But my MD could be accused of the same the way he had to realign my priorities with that of the company.

But when you understand that some of the people on the board of the company I worked for never even use a computer, a bridge is necessary.
I think your #2 is why I bring this up. It's interesting that our in-depth understanding of the specific mechanics is fairly recent; before, it was easy to say that there may be some essential quality of life that made it unique and valuable, simply because it wasn't fully understood.

The implications start getting dangerously close to http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html

"keep track of opinions that get people in trouble, and start asking, could this be true? Ok, it may be heretical (or whatever modern equivalent), but might it also be true?"
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dies
Maybe more precisely finding patterns in answers in relation to the inputs.
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I've started to notice that customers are getting uneasy at the prospect of incoming legislation here in The Netherlands. I believe there's a new law in the works that makes accessibility mandatory in some cases, mostly pseudo-government related content though, so its scope remains limited.
And yet again we have this MBA mentality that tech is unimportant. I quote:

I was a non-techie founder

and then

college roommate [...] co-founder [...] no dev/design skills

OK, so, you started a tech company with no tech founders? Go on ...

4) Get clear on what your actually making.

OK, i see "your" issue here is much deeper...

drugs

And, suddenly, everything is clear...
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What makes you think life can only be biological? What about artificial life and digital organisms?
So when my computer fails to boot following a system update due a change in how fstab is handled, isn't that a broken userspace ?
Google is planning to completely trust a computer to drive? Have they never used a computer?

http://downdetector.com/status/google/map
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Ask HN: Has anyone successfully monetized a TinyLetter Newsletter?
I just came across http://tinyletter.com/ a few days ago on a Show HN, this one => "My first side project: one hand picked song delivered to your inbox every day (tinyletter.com)" => https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14696823 -- that since appears to have been either deleted or has moved.

It's free for upto 5,000 subs and the interface is very simple and straightforward, for sending daily newsletters.

I was wondering if anyone has experience with TinyLetter in terms of monetizing a very niche topic by way of product sales, or affiliate links?

Reason for asking is, I'm thinking of starting a newsletter curating the daily news in Boxing, and am wondering if I can monetize it somehow without ads (which are universally demmed super-annoying)

Related Story [2014]:
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