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There was a little bit of pain but it was nowhere near as bad as some make out. I migrated all my arch boxes at the time just fine and the main work was writing unit files -- which compared to writing init scripts was mainly trivial.

Is systemd the best init system? No. But to some of us it was an improvement over what came before it and it really hasn't given us the trouble that others claim it has given them.

I remember a colleague who ran Linux From Scratch on his laptop who was abhorred by the changes. We spent an afternoon trying to remove the stuff from an Ubuntu VM image he didn't consider necessary and a lot of it was really alien to him. As an fvwm user he really couldn't understand why almost everything needed dbus and pulseaudio. I couldn't understand a lot of the strange packaging dependencies either. And yet these are things that to me have improved real pain-points in linux distros.
Gem-quality synthetic diamonds are cut in essentially the same way as natural diamonds.

The most important commercial cut (the brilliant) was described in Marcel Tolowsky's 1919 book Diamond Design, so would not be copyrightable without some tremendous legal gymnastics. De Beers could dream up some "improvement" to the brilliant cut and trademark it, but there really isn't much room for improvement. The cut that Tolowsky described is very, very close to the mathematical ideal for brilliance and fire. Most of the later optimisations in diamond modelling are in the public domain.
I know you were joking, but I was curious so I looked it up: the HondaJet can get about 4MPG (though presumably less for short trips), jet fuel currently costs about $2.20 per gallon (not sure if that’s retail or wholesale), and let’s say Stockton to SJC which is about 84 miles (though I’d probably go somewhere up or down the coast, or maybe Tahoe). That’s only 84/4*2.2 = $46 each way, in about 20 minutes.

Plus maintenance, storage, airport fees, pilot if you can’t fly it yourself, probably other stuff I don’t know about. Still, that’s a less fuel than I thought it would be.
Is this something where docker would help?

Maybe the service is to create nice docker images for side projects. E.g. a rails app with login and all the usual stuff with best practices and you go in and tailor it to your side project
You will run into problems like that on any platform. Want to do a "quick" Windows Update? OK, let's just schedule in 2 hours of downtime. What about OS X packages that aren't in the app store - sure lots of solutions exist but none are without their occasional problems.

While package management is a solved problem (well, on all platforms outside of Windows that is), that doesn't mean that occasional issues will not arise. Though for what it's worth: I run Arch which is about as hands on as it gets without compiling your own packages and it's been 10 years since the last time a package update cost me 45 minutes or longer of my time.
I believe anything that uses blockchain. Use cases can range from record keeping to tracking data or flow of transactions. It can also span across multiple and diverse industries like healthcare, transportation and logistics, government welfare benefits distribution et al maybe even voting.
Seems like there's a gap in the market for an 'ad-free unless I sell out for $1m' image hosting site.
to a point you are right, but clearly there is some boundary, right? imagine a solid object with a mass just below the Chandrasekhar limit and a temperature near absolute zero. Don't tell me hurtling that into the Sun will make it burn hotter. And even if it would (or a smaller object) in the long run, there would at least be some period of time before the incoming matter reached fusionable temperatures, reducing power output in the short term.
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Almost all of that is contracted out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-base_operator

The clearances are fairly easy for small airports and would be handled by the pilot.

The advantages are mostly in getting to pick your own route and timing; useful for CEOs with lots of offices to go to and a holiday home somewhere.
Commit to it !

It is easy to start a blog but is way more difficult to frequently post (not necessarily everyday but find your routine and try and commit to it) and try and feel that what you write can be interesting to other people.

I always thought that starting a blog is like speaking at a conference with no one in the room. The biggest challenge can be to find people to be curious about what you say and if you are frequent enough and your content is interesting, people will come back and you have just started developing your audience.

Just don't give up, it is easier to quit than to do it right.

Edit : sharing an anecdote. I started a blog about my view on technology more than 10 years ago. At best, I had ~ 200 people / month that read my content. One of my best memory was a comment someone posted on one of my article thanking me for the content and to keep up the good work. Til this day, I still remember how good and rewarding it was to have someone you don't know taking some of their time to comment on a post you wrote. I vividly remember this feeling and think about this person who wanted me to explain him stuff and I failed.

I don't remember his (nick)name but I won't forget him.
The last time I've really tried out KDE (many years ago, in the KDE4 era) it didn't work and I had to install an extension (that didn't quite work for me) to get that to work. But I've heard that they've changed it later. After some configuration I've installed XFCE on this PC and was much happier. I even found a menu and a configuration for XFCE that worked like I wanted it to work.
Purchasers generally use them to get early and cheap access to potential speculative bubbles. Most "investors" fully intend to sell them as soon as it makes sense.

In other words there's no utility at all.
Have you ever looked at a makefile before calling make? A typical makefile might take days to audit.

I’m pretty sure that it would be trivial to hide malicious code in a tarball that you wouldn’t find (especially if you’re not expecting it).
grep is pretty handy, -C 5 or so will get you a nice amount of context. Maybe GibBreakPls has better tricks.
Using a turboprop or a jet (should be) is a result of the specific requirements of a client. If it requires rather short trips on short runways, multiple landings a day and maybe the need to carry some larger items, a turboprop such as the Pilatus PC-12 or a Beech King Air 250 might be a better fit than some private jet. Then again, private jets come in all sorts of variety: if you have rather short runways and short trips, one of the smaller Cessna Citations might be the perfect fit. If you want to travel in comfort across the oceans, an Embraer Legacy or a Gulfstream have no competition from Turboprops at all.

There are different planes for different needs.
> If you want some fun watch what various NTP servers around the world do when Leap Seconds roll around. You will see clocks that start to drift for 15 minutes before jumping to the right time, some that wait until 8AM local time on the following day to correct, and some that just go crazy. And of course you have Google's clock smearing across most of a day.

As a note, clock smearing is a non-standard hack invented by Google, because most programs are too broken to handle the leap second warning event and inserting/deleting a second properly, per designed. And you shall never add a clock smearing server to the www.pool.ntp.org.
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I guess you are looking for something like Codementor: https://www.codementor.io/
Thanks for your response, but I do not get the "flat out lying" part.

What has lying got to do with a subjective definition of "lightweight". See discussion on Javascript - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39797181/why-javascript-...

What does "lightweight" really mean?

The idea that everyone sees "lightweight" and they ONLY think of Chromium size seems an ascription of "lightweight" ONLY to chromium size. I understand that has been a more common approach to chromium based solutions. This is not it here.

I have said in a few of my comments that this is simple referring to "simpler".

See a definition of "lightweight" from wikipedia:

A lightweight programming language is one that is designed to have very small memory footprint, is easy to implement (important when porting a language), and/or has minimalist syntax and features.

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

So if we replace "lightweight programming language" with Chromely, while the small memory footprint, may be arguable false, it is however easier to implememt and minimal features. Note the "and/or" part.
If you're making an emergency stop, that is, you need to stop fifteen seconds ago, then yes, you're better off just slamming the breaks and letting the ABS do its thing. If you are not a highly trained stunt driver, I'd bet that its better at not locking the wheels then you are.

If you have more time then that, feel free to do a controlled brake and coast to a stop.

Regarding the learning to drive: I'd highly recommend taking your daily driving car to a defensive driving type course that includes a skid pan. That way you can experience what your car feels like during an emergency break, with ABS, during hydroplaning in a safe environment. This is something that could literally save your life, because you won't be surprised by how your car feels when it happens on the road.
Deep Learning was a noticeable improvement over previous neural models, sure. But deep learning is not the entire field of AI and ML. There has been more stuff going on like neural turing machines and differentiable neural computers.
> BUT it cost petabytes and petabytes of flops, expensive enough that they released a total of ten or twenty Alpha Go Zero game to the world

Training is expensive but inference is cheap enough for Alpha Zero inspired bots to beat human professionals while running on consumer hardware. DeepMind could have released thousands of pro-level games if they wanted to and others have: http://zero.sjeng.org/
that is sweet. thanks
Kinda same here, but without the ethics: I just refuse to pay for a shiny stone when there are much cheaper shiny stones. I just got a gold ring with zirconia (whatever that is spelled).

For the "couples ring" (whatever that is called in english, i dont know) my suggestion is to just get 2 solid rings of gold. Gold is actually worth something, I like that.
Fair enough. That's not my preferred approach to tutorials, but tastes differ. Thanks.
Did this guys just completely ignore Plasma (KDE)?? I'd say they are the ones ahead on high DPI and Wayland... Seriously, install it, even on old hardware. Plasma is really fast and stable these days. Also, Mate has no problems with High DPI and given the right theme look beautiful with rounded corners all over the place.

Edit: Ok, I may have misread the piece as a critique at first but it's just his way of getting Gnome more functional. Anyway, his assumptions regarding "Gnome being ahead" are outdated and it seems like one is ready for DE switch, if one must lobotomize her/his DE after every install.
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they designed the engine first but since no one chose it, they then decided it build the plane too.
there is no human that has studied any of those games for 2000 years. So I think you mean 4 hours versus average human study of 40 years.
I don't follow. What problem would blockchain be solving here that couldn't be solved without it?
It's probably easier to manually merge the manifest (as they're much more human-readable) than a lock file though.
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A big factor in producing a good analysis is the feedback modality -- chat transcripts are different from emails, which are different from web forms or operator notes.

We've had several "customer feedback / intent / support case analysis" projects in the past. Some for large customers with millions of individual records (Autodesk), where there's the additional challenge of "What should the categories be in the first place? What's in the data?" (discovery).

What we learned is a model trained on one type of feedback will not necessarily perform well on others, because the relevant signals manifest differently across modalities: feedback length / writing style / typos, lexical richness / repetition / boilerplate, OCR noise / how long is the long tail… Your model may learn to pick up on cues that are orthogonal to the sentiment or categorization problem.

This is especially true for black box models (deep learning) where introspection is limited: Did the model learn to rely on syntax? Specific words or character ngrams? Exclamation marks? Something else? Does an Indian-looking name imply sentiment negativity?

Slapping a generic ML technique (Stanford NLP, Naive Bayes, bi-LSTM, whatever) onto a bunch of tokens is a reasonable first step, that's the low-hanging fruit. The tricky part is defining the problem space and the QA process correctly, and managing the devil that comes with the details.
$25 might he boring but recurring commissions even if small say 10% could be fun. Like pocket money.
The “vocal minority” of the community against vgo as it stands today are also mostly the package management domain experts, who have put in the sweat equity.
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Never mind that your average week often features a couple of meetings on Wall Street, with lawyers in DC, at the factory in Alabama and the research centre in Raleigh. Then a charity dinner in Boston and a round of golf with the chairman of the board at Hilton Head.
> I miss the most in the traditional desktops is starting programs by hitting the super (Windows) key and typing the programs.

Brisk Menu. It binds to the Windows key by default and still somehow allows shortcuts like Win+R to work.

https://github.com/solus-project/brisk-menu
Yeah, same pattern applies so many times, Slack -> IRC + WEB and many others.

>Now that north-south traffic is dwarfed by east-west >traffic in every system [this means that north is the >client, south is your "DB", and east-west just means >services in your system, and since people nowadays use a >lot more complicated systems, the inter-component = >intra-system communication is huge, compared to the few >MBs sent to the client].)

Never thought about it, in those terms.
Jets are able to fly higher than turboprops avoiding weather which be otherwise dangerous or uncomfortable
This video that was uploaded yesterday explains very well how humans inherently value scarcity, even from a very young age. It could be shells/weird looking stones/trading cards/gold/cryptocurrency. If it is rare humans will value it.

If you could create diamonds at will in a lab the price of it's price is bound to go down significantly, it's not just a matter of supply and demand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKwqNgG-Sv4
>It's the same reason you might get a house cleaner or gardener in, just on a different scale.

While I don't know anyone with a personal Jet I've known a handful of people that essentially grew up with a household staff where they had like 3 to 5 or so people full time supporting the household.

The best explanation for the experience was essentially they had an office manager / executive assistant that they could call on for most things growing up for most of them there was a single point of contact that managed the the staff and they would tell them what they need (I need to buy X, or I need to be in place Y on date Z or I want to have a party for M) and they'll sort it out.

This essentially is needed if you are going to be living in a house "appropriate" to your net worth even starting at a few millions in old money (outside of the US) it comes to a point where you cannot actually manage the house and grounds on your own without it being a full time job and if you actually want to maintain both it's monetary and sentimental value a maintenance staff is nearly mandatory.

Most of us would have trouble keeping up a 2-3 bed apartment running without having a weekly or bi-weekly cleaning service when we work full time, now imagine keeping up an 8-10 bed house with possibly guest quarters and the grounds around it.

This is also one of the reasons that many of these huge houses are not as expensive as one might think as their yearly upkeep cost is pretty darn high.
"Anodized aluminum and titanium don't rust - and if by whatever means you DO allow them to oxidize, the oxygen-bound outer layer forms a protective barrier against further rusting."

So what? But they do melt. And you can't eat Titanium or Aluminum. We would starve to dead soon without Pt/Rh
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> the better way to learn and understand cryptography is stuff like the Matasano Cryptopals challenges

Compared to OP's tutorial, this is certainly a better way. I very much doubt this is the best way however, unless of course you actually want to do cryptanalysis.

Breaking stuff for real takes time. Learning that stuff can be broken is much quicker. I don't need to forge messages to be afraid of ciphertext malleability. Once I understand how XOR works, of course I'll run away screaming into the night at the sight of unauthenticated encryption. That said, I reckon doing the challenges is very good for street cred.

Also, some things just have to be taught. Forward secrecy for instance, is either like "I don't have the key, can't break anything", or "duh, you leaked your long term key, of course I can read everything". Exploiting breaches can help someone plug the leaks, but they won't teach them to secure their users' messages after law enforcement went for their long term keys.

And dammit, I don't aspire to be a crypto engineer. I just want to build a secure system. That said:

> if you're going to build anything close to new with cryptography, you really do have to understand the math

Oh yes. That alone warrants my upvote.
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But that assumes the kidnappers have a long-term game to play, and need to worry about their reputation, no?

That will be the case at least some of the time, I suppose.

Also, some 'ransomware' never unlocks, even on payment. 'NotPetya' is the famous one, perhaps there are others. A sufficiently spooked victim might behave irrationally and fail to research the ransomware's track record before paying up.
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Signatures are against HN guidelines. Better to put your name and deets in your bio.
Not much really. Blockchains are a cool solution to a very specific problem. Trying to use them for everything as a general solution, as the author suggests, is not very practical.
I think it's a bit like self-driving cars in the sense that it's good enough to be impressive but not good enough to be actually usable everywhere. Of course self-driving is worse because people seldom die of bad captions.

Google's captioning works well when people speak clearly and in English. Google translate works well when you translate well written straightforward text into English. It's impressive but it's got a long way to go to reach human grade transcription and translation.

I think when evaluating these things people underestimate how long the tail of these problems is. It's always those pesky diminishing returns. I think it's true for many AI problems today, for instance it looks like current self-driving car tech manages to handle, say, 95% of situations just fine. Thing is, in order to be actually usable you want something that critical to reach something like 99.999% success rate and bridging these last few percent might prove very difficult, maybe even impossible with current tech.
And Gaius point stands before this argument as well, chess is seen as such a weak predictor that playing a game of chess or requesting an official ELO rating isn't used for hiring screening for instance.

I suspect that chess as a metagame is just so far developed that being "good at chess" means your general ability is really overtrained for chess.
>> Makov Tree Search

You mean Monte Carlo Tree Search, which is not at all like Ma(r)kov chains. You're probably mixing it up with Markov decision processes though.

Before criticising something it's a good idea to have a solid understanding of it.
If you do get caught however, for whatever reason, you’ll be looking at a much harsher sentence if you killed your hostage.

There’s also more of a chance law enforcement will continue to look for you if you make the news for murder than if you return the hostage (one can easily imagine it won’t be top priority for them then).

With that said, not all criminals are excellent game theorists...
> It does not invite highway hypnosis. The explanation for this lies in your past driving experience. You lend the Auto-Pilot a duty you have been trained to perform yourself, and this somehow makes you just a little uneasy. It is not an entirely relaxing thing to sit back at 70 m.p.h. and feel the engine get gas from some other agency than yourself; your alertness is more likely to be heightened than lulled. This slight wariness stays with you as long as the device is working, even after thousands of miles have been logged.

This exact same sentence sounds like it could be applied to Tesla's Autopilot (correctly or not I don't know!)
About the same as getting shot while drowning in bathtub stricken by lightning?
I use i3 on my laptop, where I routinely connect and disconnect external displays. I wrote a small program to deal with that: http://github.com/mortie/dedaemon

That tool also handles input stuff (like setting the keyboard layout when a keyboard is connected, or setting the mouse speed when a mouse is connected), and setting the wallpaper (because the wallpaper has to be re-applied when a display is connected). Here's the config file I personally use: https://github.com/mortie/nixConf/blob/master/.dedaemon.hcnf

If you do end up trying it out, feel free to pm me (mort@irc.freenode.net) or open a github issue if you have any questions or problems.
That vid of the Uber crash - just because one company has a crap product doesn't mean they are all bad. Waymo is about the only one that seems about ready to go and I think partly because they don't just count on deep learning.
There are a few (e.g. Kik, Brave) that claim the coins will be used in some sort of platform, that presumably will sustain the value of the currency.
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you mean well before the big bang: e^(a*t) = 0 for t=-infinity
But if the hostage takers are dead and other potential hostage taker know this, it would reduce the risk?
It's easy to judge as a rational, unaffected third party from a distance, but I truly believe a demand like that would make me reconsider my proposal.
I'm sure there are security experts out there who managed to create tools that scans source code to find eventual security vulnerabilities.

Although I'm not sure those tools could 'find' and build a vuln, but there could be ways to analyze an algorithm, and detect that it can do dangerous things it's not not supposed to do. A little like static analysis works.

I'm sure those tools are already built by the NSA at least, so they just have to peek into github repos, point out what code is vulnerable, give it to some developer to make an exploit. Done.

That way the NSA would clearly wins the cyber arms race, versus those pairs of eyes Torvalds was being quoted for, would surely be obsoleted.