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Well, people love the nutjobs, and want to love the assholes. Is the style of communication really RMS's problem?

I think the problem is the content itself, not its delivery. RMS seems unable to separate the good arguments from the stupid ones. For example, don't have kids because of overpopulation (good argument), and also don't have kids because parents have to do whatever someone with money tells them to do instead of what's right (breathtakingly stupid argument).

The life RMS has chosen to live is inspiring on some level, but has also warped his perspective, and therefore his arguments often miss the mark.
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.

This is a common issue. It happens on Windows and Mac, as well. Am I to understand you don't experience it with some other way of handling sound (e.g. not using PulseAudio)? Are all of them being driven by the same program?

I DJ, and have used multiple independent interfaces in the past; there were frequently pops and warbles as the various timing crystals in the various interfaces fell out of sync and were forced back into sync by the software. It happened on both Windows and Linux (though it was slightly less pronounced on Linux, and I never figured out why). JACK might be the best way to deal with that problem on Linux, though I never tried it (I just switched to a dedicated DJ controller with multiple outs and headphone output).

But, it's a common enough problem that most DJ software has something about the problem in their FAQ.
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For lots of games there is server software available (e.g. Minecraft) which allows a server to become host and all players can then join the server and play together. This panel allows to easily control those servers ;)
You don't have a detailed knowledge about the state of every molecule in the bowl soup and its environment, so you have to rely on statistical mechanics. And the current macroscopic state that you observe could correspond to a particular microscopical state that evolves in surprising ways. But the probability is so low that it just doesn't happen.

To make things worse, quantum mechanics is intrinsically random (at least as far as we know) and having a detailed knowledge of the state of the system allowing for certain prediction of its evolution is impossible in principle (and not just in practice).
I skipped the conclusion, though, I'd still be interested about the channel that could be used to report such issues.
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What I saw was poettering spouting garbage about what he thinks is an invalid user name (when in reality, it is not and common tools like useradd don't complain about it).

As the owner for a critical service like systemd (I don't use it, I prefer openRC on gentoo), he should know better.
There are many many MS bugs that last for years. Pretty much any time you search for a bug in MS software you will find someone in a support forum giving generic advice (known issue that we will work on, not a bug, please reinstall Windows and applications) and users complaining.

Typical example: https://excel.uservoice.com/forums/304921-excel-for-windows-... basic problem that has been there many many years. For this one there are workarounds but many others there are not.

The only real long-term solution is supporting competitive products.
And Spotify started with being a torrent client for the employees MP3 library: http://gizmodo.com/early-spotify-was-built-on-pirated-mp3-fi...
Similar in sentiment to "I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone."
Are there really 'high-ego'/'low-ego' individuals? Is it not a spectrum over time? Is it not controllable to some degree?

How is this different than toning down the ego a notch when trying to make platonic friends, while trying to be confident when looking to make romantic partners?
If you have soda and water within reach on the same shelf, and children choose soda over water, should we blame the results on the children or the arrangement of soda and water on the same shelf?

It's possible to modify the interface or situation to accommodate the person, rather than asking the person to change to the interface.
If free users and paid users both have access to the app, then it's not a paid feature.

You just assert this as if it was self-evident, but it's not. The same feature can be offered for free and as a paid component of a package, just like the same code can be licensed to some under the GPL and to others under a proprietary license.

In this case, syncing is part of the service being purchased, and the means to achieve that is absolutely part of the package, even if it's also offered for free to others.
If you were trolling I'd rank this as medium to high quality bait.
I imagine that whoever paid you a ton of money might not be happy afterwards. I also imagine they're not the type of people you want to make unhappy.
Regarding your second quote, my assumption is that she is applying the 'Death of the Author' principle to photography. It doesn't matter who the person behind the camera is, it only matters that what is captured and shared is interesting. Presumably masters find their clothing in consistency and dedication, not Bach-tier composition. That's my guess, at any rate.
Think you might be talking about founders here.
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No, the article says this is a regression in how processes close.
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They even advertised it as Unix-like.

https://www.apple.com/media/us/osx/2012/docs/OSX_for_UNIX_Us...

We are using it for develoment but it's considerably more work to setup the develoment environment than installing a Linux distribution with everything we need available by default or a command away. Also in El Capitan the root user is disabled by default.

http://www.infoworld.com/article/2988096/mac-os-x/sorry-unix...
That's not what's being discussed here.
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http://www.leftrightcenter.io/

I'm working on an alternative to Google News that shows the same event from multiple news outlets/perspectives so that you can draw your own conclusions. Let me know what you think!
It was also Ike who coined the term "military-industrial complex".
Doesn't a high bounty create a perverse incentive for employees to introduce or leave bugs they spot so that they/some accomplice can claim the bounty?

I know silicon valley employees' honnesty is above all suspicions and rogue employees is a monopoly of the financial industry but one has to consider the risk.
Thats why my machine gets that slow after running for weeks... explains everything!
The patch metadata: which lines have changed for what purpose.
I wholehearted disagree with regulations that require parking spaces. People are less likely to own cars if they knew they were paying extra to park them. Parking spaces should have prices, so we can use the market to distribute them in their scarcity. We call that: unbundled parking.[0]

As it is, paid parking is being tremendously undercut by free parking. People will go very far out of their way, roaming the streets for hours every week looking for a rare free parking spot, but there is almost no will to build a guaranteed spot in a paid parking structure.

This contributes to traffic, greenhouse gas emissions, wear on infrastructure, noxious gases emitted in residential neighborhoods, and poisonous relations between neighbors.

A related issue is that cars require a tremendous amount of space for what they provide, and there is no way we can afford to build enough spaces for all the cars that we think we can own because the parking is free. Even if the parking was adequate when new, it is not adequate anymore. And even when new, adequate parking was enormously expensive.[1]

My own neighborhood in San Francisco was built in the 1950s for single-family, single-earner households. Then women joined the workforce. Then children grew up needing cars. Then families doubled up in one house, or landlords turned the homes into rooming houses; and a house with a 1-car garage is now associated with 5 cars or more.

The price to sell is not directly connected to the cost to build.[2] Depending on the location, I think the no-parking micro-unit is actually more valuable to me than the suburban mansion, if it means I can reach everything I need by foot or bicycle and avoid paying all the fees and wasted time in traffic of car or bus.

I don’t care whether the developer makes a profit; except insofar as a developer should be paid for doing work that I think benefits society, and also as most of the income goes to the developer’s investors, that is, schoolteacher pension funds and such.

[0] http://www.thegreatermarin.org/blog/2015/8/8/unbundling-park...

[1] https://www.strongtowns.org/parking/

[2] https://artplusmarketing.com/market-rate-housing-isnt-a-bad-...
India Telecom Operator Reliance Jio Investigating Claims of Alleged Data Breach
There are lots of reasons for us to embrace and advocate the use of ISO8601. Historical records of activity, like this article, demonstrate the obvious one -- it doesn't confuse readers who live in any of the other 195 countries.
I just ran it at 1% instead of $1.

On only 5% of days was the spread greater than 80 -> 120.
Yeah but a good technical manager is out of most companies' budget.
Does yours run Windows? Do you get to choose? If you could choose, which OS would you use? Any clear favourites with your peers for development? Just collecting anecdotes ;)
The correspondence of Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent and the practice of "culture-fit" in Hiring Practices should be a note of caution to growing companies.

Over constraining your hiring, ( i.e. the aspect of "culture-fit" that is antonymical to diversity ) can lead an organisation to blindness to the true state of things ( i.e. not having diverse perspectives on customers due to a lack of diversity in employee backgrounds ).

This is why diversity is not just about fairness but also highly pragmatic.

Diversity makes for wiser corporations which makes them anti-fragile and gives them new edges in competition.

It is also why the subtle method of subverting democracy outlined in Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent as a practice to create an organisation ( or newspaper ) that outputs a world view concurrent with ones own makes for fragile democracies and administrations.

That it can happen "unconsciously" because it is easier to recognise competence in those who are like you means organisations and democracies must be vigilant against entrenched political and journalistic class evolving.

In short: critics are better friends than an echo chamber.

Or contemporaneously: firing scientists does make climate change less true.
>You don't know who someone is until you see them go through poverty.

The inverse is also true: you don't know who someone is until a) they get rich and/or powerful (and change), b) you go to poverty (and e.g. they prove to be only "fair weather friends").

And I would just more harshly someone who reveals themselves to do bad things or be a bad friend when they get rich or when you get poor, than someone doing bad stuff when THEY get poor.

Because desperation can force one to do things they don't want or like (like borrow money and not give it back or even steal), but the others don't have that excuse.
> Why PDF then

It's nice to have the web page's text searchable without having to OCR the PNG.
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>Are there really 'high-ego'/'low-ego' individuals? Is it not a spectrum over time? Is it not controllable to some degree?

Obviously it's a kind of a spectrum, but at the same time, there definitely also are low ego and high ego individuals, whose ego, even if their fluctuates, it remains high or low relative to the average person.
It doesn't take much effort to start a video if you should so want it. This method has the added benefit of not annoying folks like me who seriously do not appreciate the noise pollution.
> 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.

I generally agree with greggman here, in the "average vs great" distinction.

However, this also reeks of "my job is more important than your job" bias. Everyone is a commodity (and jobs are too). It's just about how hard it is to find someone to replace them.
That somebody might feel close? Doesn't sound like a nightmare...
This bug was a key reason to start developing the next version of drive...
Yeah, but they had a small time window to deliver a working product to have a small chance to penetrate the market. Instead the efforts were spread on tons of competing solutions. The resulting product was unusable. As much as I was an enthusiast and a fan of the idea the device I received was nowhere near ready for any kind of sensible use.
Having worked with inits of BSD, sysv, upstart, systemd, and launchd varieties, I strongly prefer the administrative and debug capabilities of the script-oriented ones.

BSD's choice to drop everything into a single rc file is not particularly elegant, but it can be coerced to do what you want. The sysvinit user interface, frankly, isn't bad:

/etc/init.d/<service> [start|stop|reload|restart]

Need to debug?

/bin/sh -x /etc/init.d/<service> [start|stop|reload|restart]

I've been known to copy the files elsewhere to work with them, if necessary. The last time that was necessary was well over a decade ago. As a sysadmin (1 - 15k boxen), broken init scripts simply weren't on my radar. (Neither was boot time, or network management, or device management, or logfile management, or ....)

I'll add that my distro of choice is Debian (or derivatives, which I generally mean here). One thing that I noticed when first switching to Debian, back in the mid 1990s, was that its init scripts were vastly easier to follow than Red Hat's. Debian has a fairly standard structure (/etc/init.d/skeleton is the bare-bones template), and most scripts follow that within some reason. There are a few exceptions -- scripts which initialise things (bootclean, mount, networking) rather than start services, tend not to look like service initialisation scripts, on the inside. On the outside, though, they do.

Further: once configured properly, those scripts don't change. Debian in particular does an extraordinarily good job of extracting out all necessary configuration to an /etc/ configfile (which it then won't touch unless you specifically tell it to).

My experience on MacOS (see elsewhere in this thread) is that stuff which ought be easy isn't. My experience with systemd, to date, hasn't evidenced this, as I am largely using the extant sysvinit scripts. But I've noticed numerous things Wot Used To Work ... do not. And the response from the sysvinit devs, particularly from the top, as well as various sycophants on numerous fora, has been exceedingly disturbing.

Case in point, my single most controversial Reddit comment:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/2dvmdn/what_do_you_a...

(No comment on the general tendency of crowdsourced moderation systems to vote for popularity rather than truth.)
Renewable energy is becoming so cheap the US will meet Paris commitments
I hope HN doesn't mind tangentially related Dylan Moran skits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlLpCh-lE54
JIO database leaked online
>but in the absence of that I'm going to interpret your silence as an admission that actually you're not as informed on the subject of discrimination as you initially argued.

HN just ate my post I spent the last hour on. So in lieu of that, here's the TL;DR

I only post on weekdays, and usually during work hours while I mull over some problem or another at work. If you look at my post history there is almost always a 2-day gap for the weekend. I rarely, if ever, post after PMT work hours, on Saturdays, or on Sundays. I simply don't go on HN at those times and as such wouldn't have seen your post to respond to. While HN doesn't timestamp posts with the hours - you can at least check and verify the days and then choose to trust me on the hours.

I try to limit the PII I put on the internet, but I grew up in a town that is part of Los Angeles County. Statistics for the town are not so readily available as they are for the county as a whole. The town I lived in is meth head central with lots of gangs. Mostly MS13 and Blood offshoots, so Hispanic and Black gangs - there's a few skinhead/lowrider groups.

I'll try to find actual statistics - but do know that statistics won't tell you of the white kid growing up in MS13/Bloods territory anymore than they'd tell you the story of a black kid growing up in Aryan Brotherhood territory. Do you agree that "growing up in the wrong neighborhood" where gangs are divided among racial lines means that you're far more likely to be discriminated against on the basis of your race?

I don't want to research these statistics at work - and am in the middle of moving countries (I depart on the 28th of this month) so don't exactly have the free time to provide you with any research. Feel free to reach out to me on Twitter or via email as I am interested in defending myself, but I'm not certain if I actually have the time to do so this month.
Show HN: Pixiv app client built in React Native
I just published an open source react native app call PxView, it is an unofficial app for the illustration communication service "pixiv". Pixiv is a Japanese online community for artists, it is like DeviantArt but more focus on japanese anime and manga style arts. Feel free to star it, submit bug issues or submit pull request.

Github url: https://github.com/alphasp/pxview
Google play url: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.utopia.pxv...
grsecurity is a good effort, if you dont like it dont use it but dont complain about people trying to make a turd less of a turd even if it is of your opinion they fail at it.
alot of people sell software that 'only functions on linux', people even sell linux based appliances, they all leave the licence files etc. neatly tucked away somewhere for licence nazis to find >.>. people who critisize grsecurity and praise linux probarbly dont care much about the rootkits in their systems >.>
Does "they refuse to fix" include systemd developer Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek and xyr proposed fix?

* https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/6300
It sounds like you're blocking udev while your script executes, and instead you should start a service from your udev script and then exit. For example, see systemd-run(1).

> ...where whole swaths of legitimate use cases are actively destroyed.

Your use case is fine. Your implementation doesn't fit with udev's design; that's all.
It's made for administrating dedicated servers, where the host does not actively participate in the game. This has several major advantages.

* Performance: The server does not need to render the UI, and is often completely headless (hence the use of this software).

* Fairness: The host in your scenario has zero latency, giving them a competitive advantage over players with tens or hundreds of milliseconds of network delay.

* Availability: Some games provide a persistent world with the ability to drop in and out at any time (e.g. Minecraft). No single player is present for the entire session.
Just wanted to say: You're an inspiration, Maciej
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Still, "awkward when you call them up for a beer" is hardly the stuff of nightmares -- or enough to label anyone "socially incompetent weirdo".

You don't need to be best buddies with someone to call them for a beer.

In fact calling a new acquaintance for a beer is how many friendships actually get build.
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Update the link: https://medium.com/@nate_wang/rekit-2-0-next-generation-reac...
It's a little funny.

systemd has some great stuff in it. I have my nits to pick with it but, on the whole, it's better than what we had before. And, don't we all just want things to be a little better every day?

I think it's all gonna work out fine in the end (and if not, we'll all be dead someday, anyway).
Its moment like this you notice how far we have fallen
I've always found it amusing how shocked/surprised people are about the Reddit fake users strategy. It's like, the best way you can tell people had no experience with internet forums or community management before the days of social media.

What Reddit did here is basically what about 70%* of internet forums did to get their initial users. Made up a bunch of fake user accounts and posted under them for however long it took until actual people started using the site. Heck, some people did this on an almost industrial scale with stuff like Yahoo Answers feeds and what not.

That's because people don't use a community that isn't active for much the same reason they don't tend to eat in a restaurant that's deserted; they take the lack of activity as a sign of low quality. So if you want to get a community site active, you'll need to resort to 'questionable' things.

* I say this because there are other means of getting forums active, like doing post exchanges with people on admin/forum promotion sites or signing up to services which give you points for posting on other websites in the network and then do likewise for people who use your own site. But to some degree, almost all forums and community sites get big due to 'enticed' users that aren't posting there purely for the love of the topic/community.
> NtGdiCloseProcess has a system-wide global lock which is used quite often

"Holds" rather than "has", and importantly that system-wide lock must be held by things like SendMessageW (which sends a message and waits for its processing before returning) which is pretty critical for UI updates.

This is compounded by parallelised build processes as not only do they spawn lots of processes leading to lots of process destruction: it both fucks up the UI and completely serialises process destruction so your nice 24 process flights for faster processing end up taking multiple seconds to all shut down, and the more cores (and thus processes) you have the worse it is, and the worse your stutters.
I don't think he's saying that its as deadly as tobacco. Rather, I think his point is that the magnitude of its nefarious effects will surprise the general populace.
I'm asking why race is such a problem... Did you misunderstand or are you saying race is a problem for you?
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Love everything that Pinboard is doing - both service and attitude wise. Great to have living examples of hackers doing what they love, without having to sell out to investors or a large company, all the while bringing in decent money.

All that said, I'm always surprised that Maciej racked in over $100k in revenue his first year. I was of the impression that your first 1-2 years are going to be in the red, unless you have something big to build on (existing business to promote your new one, big twitter following, etc.).

The fact that he has 10x the users now compared to the first year but only 2x the revenue is interesting. I assume that's due to moving the subscription fee to a small but ever incrementing amount to a larger, fixed one.

Any tips/prep advice for someone who has a business they want to launch but dread spending the first couple years making no money/having few users?