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> And its adoption was largely driven by decisions by large distributions, rather than organic growth.

Yes, that's not stated enough. According to systemd proponents, systemd was demanded. Truth is I've never witnessed or heard about a rush towards RedHat distributions because they had systemd first. Never. That's what should have happened if systemd was so attractive, shouldn't it? Nor have I ever heard a user demanding systemd in order to solve his problems.

It was pushed by distribution maintainers, not users. I remember when Arch decided to switch to systemd. The maintainers made false claims (which were repeated by other distributions later) and false promises.

They claimed that systemd would relieve them from the terrible burden of maintaining init scripts. Many times have I asked to give example of this burden, I was never given an answer. Of course, the software packages are mostly all already present, there are very few new ones coming who require an init script, and the existing ones have had their script running for years and years, there is very little fixing or evolution in those. It's difficult to give proofs of a burden that did not exist, but that claim persisted, despite never being backed by anything.

Arch maintainers, in order to get allowed to switch to systemd, promised that the previous init system would stay beside systemd and be maintained. That was a swindle: once they got the agreement to proceed with systemd on that condition, it was a matter of only a couple of months for them to ditch that promise. And 6 months after, the maintainer who made this promise in order to butter the opposition up and pass the deal for systemd as Arch init, was hired by RedHat...
Stocks are certainly not zero sum.

If they were then the implication is that they have no intrinsic value.
I'm fucking tired of filtering everyone individually. 3 people from an ethnicity/nationality fuck me over - all of them are shit unless whitelisted.
Serious Javascript developer is a contradiction in terms.
He could basically say "we're a modern tech companies approach to x legacy industry" and would have gotten the point across. Saying "Apple for x" communicates this to a mainstream audience.

It's interesting how just being tech-savvy, customer focused, and caring about product design are such rare attributes that they are labeled as unique to Silicon Valley and companies like Apple. It should be the primary objective for the majority of non-low budget consumer companies.

But we're still recovering from the legacy of a price obsessed corporate culture thats dominated since the 1980s run by accountants instead of engineers. So it's not surprising that making an app and applying software culture to any industry is seen as a revolutionary idea.
When I saw the chart I thought, what's wrong with Estonia?
Why have I read a few comments saying lowering nicotine would cause people to smoke more? I've not smoked before so I don't really get it.
The problem here is that you are handling a ton of money and it is irresponsible to manage a project in this way. More thinking that many people, including developers, in the community are millionaires, so it is not a resource problem. When you send a rocket to the space you also test it against ETs.
> "2. Western civilization. 3. Winning."

It sounds like he needs to make up his mind. The core of chivalry is willingness to lose, if winning would violate your principles; think of how Richard the Lion-Hearted died, mortally wounded when a crossbowman missed and King Richard gave him a second shot. And what is Western Civ without the spirit of chivalry? A miserable pile of bureaucrats and gladiators, nothing special or remarkable, certainly nothing worth fighting for.
In Eastern Oregon, summer weather is either clear or thunderstorms; thunderstorms develop in the afternoon, while the eclipse is in the morning. You're exceptionally likely to get a clear day East of the Cascades.

I leave in rural Eastern Oregon. The population here is expected to swell by a factor of 5-10x during the eclipse, and this is expected to overwhelm local services. If you're headed to rural Oregon -- or probably any non-metropolitan area nation-wide -- to see the eclipse, I would recommend arriving at least two days early, plan on staying up to two days afterward, bring with you all the food and gas you'll need, and try to avoid any critical illness or injury.

Speaking specifically of Madras, its East of the Cascades, so the weather should be good. There's a rumor that they're planning to make the highways one-way between Madras, Bend and Prineville to accommodate the extra traffic. I wouldn't want to travel by car in that area during the eclipse.
Pattern Matching makes it easy to write small, understandable code

The Concurrency Model is simple to the point where creating a whole pubsub system to handle events, push out notifications, and handles backpressure can be done in < 100 lines with no additional datastores or frameworks.

Finally the pipe operator is like C#'s LINQ statements but with so much more power and flexibility, hard to explain but I highly recommend cracking open that book on your nightstand!
And only the phone side of it. Nokia Networks is still part of Nokia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_Networks
Radio Shack said they would never sell their customers' data, either.
Phoenix is much more straightforward and explicit but macros are used a lot in both Phoenix and the Elixir standard library. I think most of the macros are fine but opinions vary widely on that.
https://lists.debian.org/87bn0aackz.fsf@hope.eyrie.org

(Yes, it's long, but it's absolutely worth reading.)
Easy tiger! I have to take this one step at a time! B^>
This looks quite cool! Excel spreadsheets do worryingly much work in industry, and lack even mediocre software industry practices.

It's confusing to me why the article spends so much time describing Excel->CSV translation pitfalls, when the screenshots indicate "Excel" is a supported format. As a developer, I can understand why, but handling those differences internally would make for a much more seamless user experience.
It doesn't matter. This is marketing fluff. What companies like Amazon do is count how many hard drives would need to simultaneously fail to lose data, calculate the odds of a hard drive losing data, and then multiplying. This gets you to 11 9's.

In practice, this is almost certainly not going to be why you lose data. That will be because of a chain of human errors, or a code bug, or because the user accidentally deleted the data, or because earthquakes destroyed your data centers.

I don't know anything about Wasabi other than what's on their web page, but I half suspect that what they did was look at Amazon's durability guarantee and then write that number down as their durability guarantee.
You're mixing the technical availability, as in the amount of downtime, with organizational availability, as in your contract being abruptly terminated.

Even with 100% technical availability (no downtime ever), organizational / legal risks exist. No company can realistically be free of them. Amazon, compared to many smaller companies, may have somehow lower risks of this sort: they are hard to shut down.

If you care about your data really much, you likely have backups and / or mirror copies of it across several providers, in multiple countries, and have a well-tested contingency plan to move a complete copy of your production service to any of 2-3 other providers. (And likely most people don't have your risks and the amount of money enabling this all.)
While nicotine itself may not be a carcinogen, there's evidence it encourages the growth/spread of cancer and and increases the likelihood of recurrence. It might be inhibiting antitumor immune responses. [0]

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4553893/
"And that’s all there is to it." srsly?
Some of the arguments from the op-ed also apply to other cloud providers hosting other companies SaaS products - like MS serving own BI and invoicing products when they also sell computing power to competing startups.
There's nothing about invoking build tools that precludes concurrent builds or which requires ad hoc shell scripts (although "unmaintainable scripts" is an ironic defense of CMake, since it's subject to all the same criticisms).

Alternate solutions include Docker, Nix, or even plain makefiles depending on what your artifact needs to be.

Posix is unrelated to invoking multiple build tools and assembling their results.
Fine art would be a good example?
> Amazon is directly responsible for ebooks being so cheap today.

Blimey, here I thought ebooks are ridiculously expensive, often costing more than trade paperbacks, especially after a year or two.
Mononoke: A Mercurial source control server written in Rust
> Here's some free advice: Don’t try to break into Andy Rubin’s house. As soon as your car turns into the driveway at his sprawling pad in the Silicon Valley hills, a camera will snap a photo of your vehicle, run it through computer-vision software to extract the plate number, and file it into a database. Rubin’s system can be set to text him every time a certain car shows up or to let specific vehicles through the gate.

This just makes me wonder how far you could get if you took a piece of cardboard the size of a license plate and wrote the plate number of Rubin's car on it in magic marker...
Besides lacking some other features (as mentioned in another comment), it is worth noting that even though it’s using the same SoC it is clocked lower at 1.1 GHz vs the iPhone 6’s 1.4 GHz. (Source: https://browser.geekbench.com/ios-benchmarks )
Data revolution is akin to the atom bomb for privacy.
Ignoring dividends, what intrinsic value do stocks have? I'd be curious to know how the stock market, ignoring dividends, is not a zero sum game. Maybe my understanding of "zero sum" is incorrect.
People are used to a given amount of nicotine. If each unit of tobacco product has less nicotine, they will consume more units to achieve the amount of nicotine they are used to.
> I'm all for competition. If amazon is the best, then more power to them.

I'm seriously wondering what about Amazon (the store) is so great. They are just a shop. They may have a little more inventory than anybody else. Their ordering system works fine. They have good user reviews. But all that does not justify the enormous negative effect they have on competition. And they also have problems, e.g. with counterfeit products.

In other words, saying "more power to the best" does not make much sense if "the best" is only marginally better than everybody else.
Bayee does a great job of filtering spam but it drives me nuts that obvious spam still appears in my inbox.

Suffix trees would fix this in most cases, so why the heck isn't spam filtering using them to remove the obvious spam?
Isn't Jeff bezos the owner of Washington post?
Pony 0.16.0 released
You obviously have no idea what the boundaries of Brisbane are.
So I was one of the volunteers for this study - they accepted people based on a threshold of an official IQ test, or SAT/ACT scores. I forget if it was 99th percentile or higher. I heard about it on LessWrong way back while they were soliciting volunteers, and signed up as a way to get a free genotyping since my SAT was high enough.

I lost the email thread, but I didn't get my genome data back for about 2 years (April 2015). The researcher I was talking to seemed frustrated at some pretty large delays in the project.
finally! Can't wait here in UK until it will finally get hotter, they keep saying about the climate change.. Always raining and cold here
Ryzen 3 Has Rizen – Performant quadcores on a budget
As an Android phone user, SD cards are no substitute for a reasonable amount of flash storage. There are a limited number of things you can move to SD and a limited number of applications which support storing their generated content there. My 128 GB SD card has only about 19 GB of data on it (mostly Spotify), but my 32 GB of onboard flash storage is routinely at capacity. I'll never lean on SD so much again, and just spring for more onboard storage...
The only way not to sell my data is not to acquire it in the first place. Anything else are false promises.
Do you have more information on those? Wikipedia briefly mentions the pronoun thing, but it seems to be made up by someone opposed to the law.
Probably no need to do this on their own. Found two already existing implementations, and suspect there are more:

https://github.com/dennisv/django-storage-swift

https://django-cumulus.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
> Ignoring dividends

This is like saying "ignoring calories, what intrinsic value does food have?"

The whole point of stocks is that they pay dividends, or in the case of some high-growth tech companies, they have some probability of paying dividends in the future.
That's a fairly bold prediction. Why is it ok to apply your logic to Amazon but not other monopoly situations?
Except

"Is 'company/individual/country' getting to [sic] 'rich/big/powerful/indebted'?"

is a matter of opinion, and when it comes to legitimacy, the last place I would look for a legitimate discussion about Amazon would be in a publication that is personally owned by Jeff Bezos.
Regulations aren't heterogeneous.

Edit Aren't homogenous, brah.
Which is standard BS and I can't believe people continue to say this. Maybe the seller would have accepted less if they didn't have to pay 6% (which can be tens of thousands on the average deal these days). In the case of redfin the buyer does _ACTUALLY_ pay less for a house since your getting a rebate against the money your spending. Unless the seller is losing money on the deal, it is the buyer that is effectively ponying up the cash to pay everyone (in this case themselves).

I'm also a fairly happy ex-redfin customer, and I can't help but support them if for no other reason than a number of brokerages around me are now creating flat rate schedules to compete.
Dynamic types make sense for newbie-friendly web languages like Ruby and stuff like bash/zsh or support languages like Lua is to game development... but I really don't see the downside to adding types for anything outside of that.

It's really not that much of a learning curve nor does it result in a significant amount of boilerplate.

People may believe static types are a drag from using Java or C++ but if you look at modern languages like Golang or typed Erlang/Elixir or Kotlin...it really isn't that bad at all. You don't even need to go hardcore with types the way Haskell does to get most of the safety gains.

It actually provides lots of useful abstractions to make your code more efficent, it makes it easier to read (especially for others using your code), and makes using standard libraries easier to use by just reading the type specs.

So I'm really curious what the motivations were here.
There are so many differences that I'm quite sure that if you were to look at a thorough checklist, you would agree that it's worth five dollars.

The Touch uses the display from the 5 and 5s. Pixel dentist density is the same but contrast is less. The active display sizes are 4 inches versus 4.7.

Advantages of iPhone 6 vs '15 Touch:

- 40% more battery capacity
- Touch ID and NFC
- Dual LED Flash
- 25% faster CPU clock
- 4G radio
- 1400:1 display contrast ratio vs 800:1
- 25% larger screen, and same density meaning higher screen resolution
- Twice the storage (the price i quoted was for a 16gb touch and a 32gb 6)
- larger lens aperture
- sapphire lens cover
- optical image stabilization

Drawbacks:

- 1/8" thicker
- 33% heavier
- some people prefer the smaller size
- costs $6 more
And an iPhone won't serve this role, because it needs a SIM to activate. So the iPod Touch takes users from Android that can't be served by an iPhone.
OK - Serious questions for things I've done in Pelican:

1. Can I get Jekyll to use Org files without writing any Ruby code?

2. Can I get Jekyll to handle math using MathJax without writing any Ruby code?

3. Can I get a "next article for a given tag" in Jekyll without writing any Ruby code? (What I essentially need: A post usually has "next" and "previous" article links. I want a "next" and "previous" article for every tag the post is tagged with).

Not at home so I can't see what other custom code/plugins I use, but this is a good list to begin with.
Can someone ask the author to google 'myspace' and 'yahoo'? Maybe 'sun' as well?
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Customers naturally gravitate to the platform with the largest network of customers (think Facebook). Or their success depends on having the most customer data (think Google).
...
What this “post-Chicago” economics shows is that in such industries, firms that jump into an early lead can gain such an overwhelming advantage that new rivals find it nearly impossible to enter the market, while even experienced ones find it difficult to stay in the game.
"""
Here be dragons – How the game Eve Online will change your life
Will less than three minutes of darkness actually cool the air very much?
Being a monopoly is not against the law.
I found https://www.pcper.com/news/General-Tech/Intel-still-hasnt-pa... but nothing else. That's 1.2 if this article is correct.
Great Art-Collaboration by Mono Gonzalez and Seth
Even if it makes a sales team a few % more productive, it pays for itself. Plus, it's such a gold standard that there's not really a lot of justification for using a different CRM.
I've been trying to figure out how people could see farther than me! HA, now I know
You like the one sane thing systemd does - very few folks argue that it's implementation of unit files and friends is a bad thing. Other init systems were progressing in the same direction though.

The problem is everything under the hood. Have you ever tried to debug a wedged Linux server with a somewhat esoteric startup issue these days? It's exceedingly difficult, and not simply because you need to learn an new tool chain. It's simply made many things opaque and replaced other bits no one sane would ever expect (e.g. having to remember systemd re-implements 'rm' and the quirks that brings, etc.)

As a cranky systemd-hater I also love the unit/service files - they work great, and as you say one tool that does it well. And systemd excels at making any random program a reliable and standardized daemon. Why does it also need it's own dns resolver?

If I were simply an end-user or developer making apps to run on linux I'd love systemd. It's when you're maintaining the bare metal where you start to see it's lesser known and more ugly parts.
Several state legislatures have made it illegal for climate scientists to testify in their chambers. And the left is politicizing science?
Auth : Guardian
I have been having a lot of fun playing this game with lots of others here on Hacker news.

Some suggestions:
1) Make the levels more obvious. It's not clear why players are stronger than others for some time. It would also be nice to see how far I need to go to level up more clearly.

2) ADD CHAT! I can't emphasize this enough. We need to be able to yell at each other and complain and work together.

3) Add the ability to switch classes more often.

4) Make the differences between bots and humans more obvious. I want to immediately know when I am fighting a person. A different color name, make them glowing, something.

5) Show the leaderboard after you finish. I want to be the best player today, or the last hour, or the last week or whatever.

6) Don't deduct any stats when I level up. Sometimes when you level up you are suddenly slower. I shouldn't get punished for leveling up.

7) Show my kills against different players. Let me develop a grudge. It makes it fun.

8) Show a message when a player kills a player! Let us know something cool happened.
I love all these insipid comments like "b-but he likes Rap!" LOL.

What's ridiculous are all your conclusions that "this is just some dude with a blog who likes rap music"; my premise was actually about why someone who's in the (very conservative) business of dealing with $Billions (of other ppls money no less) likes to sprinkle rap music videos and lyrics all over their public communications. My bet is that he thinks he's cool, guess what, he isn't.

VC money and their managers spouting insight like street rappers, yo! Because, you know, it's the same! Remind me to quote some Big Daddy Kane next time I have an appointment on Sand Hill Road :D
I would keep a close eye on Compass https://www.compass.com/ in this space.
They refuse to sell Chromecast and Apple TV - including listings from third parties. If you contact support, they will lie about it (it's out of stock, we temporarily withdrew it due to customer reports, we're not allowed to sell those products - never would they admit a ban). And it's just to promote their shitty Fire/Prime offering (searching Chromecast has a top result of Fire TV).

So they're definitely trying to be anti competitive.
But dividends are priced into the stock price.
You overestimate how much qualification is needed to be a qualified investor.
Where Amazon absolutely kills it is in their logistics.

As a store they're... frankly terrible. Search is complete garbage. Filtering is clunky. The product categories are an absolute disaster. And it's often impossible to tell genuine product from counterfeit (a fact that, by the way, has me terrified for folks inadvertently buying fake solar observation glasses for use during the 2017 solar eclipse) It's honestly a terrible shopping experience in almost every way imaginable.

But through direct supply and their fulfillment program they can get products to consumers insanely fast for zero cost (edit: to the consumer). IMO, that is what puts Amazon above the rest. With Prime I'm honestly dismayed when I see an arrival date that's more than 2-3 days out... that's the level of expectation they've set in the market.

Of course, competitors are starting to match them. Walmart, for example, is really advancing in this space. But IMO Amazon is still the king of logistics.

For now, anyway.
If you are on iOS, hitting reader mode solves this for many sites (WoPo, NYT).
Except that when that liquid does hit the vaporizing bit it does create some carcinogens. Too early to tell if less/same/more carcinogenic. also,... popcorn lung.
asked the newspaper owned by Amazon owner.
This is the most unbiased view of Amazon I've seen.
One of the big problems we run into is that people often don't know how to properly write their address

OK, I think there is a limit to babysitting. If someone is a developer /runs a coding club and does not know how to write his address we run into basic darwinian natural selection.
Hmm. I only invest passively so I can't say I'm super knowledgeable about this. My understanding is that stocks do not inherently give you dividends. Food inherently has caloric value, so I'd say that's the difference. Also, I thought the whole point is that stocks are tied to the (expected) performance of the company itself, and the value is that when you sell if you basically made a return on betting on the company before it appreciated.

Finally, even if there are dividends wouldn't that affect the stock price and therefore be irrelevant (as the stock itself already accounts for it)? Are you suggesting that without dividends the stock market would not function?
Brave New World for corporations, 1984 for governments?
Show HN: Lungo – App that keeps your Mac awake
Which is what broker groups on strong redfin areas are basically doing through collusion. They run "silent markets" by delaying listing new houses on the MLS, and giving traditional brokerages not working with redfin early notification of listings.
Yet your problem with the x-axis goes away once you actually look into the methods. This sort of immediate conclusion that a study is worthless because a quick glance from non-experts reveals something that looks a little odd is just awful.

Do you think that no reviewers ever think of these things?