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The problem isn't that RedHat's release cycle was too long, it's that companies want support for 5 year release cycles. Most places I've been don't even look at testing a major version of a new OS for at least year. There are just too many variables between hardware, drivers, and software and little to no benefit in staying bleeding edge.

Let's say there was a new feature. It might be an improvement in almost every regard, but how it behaves at the limits or when left unattended might not play well with every other piece in the system. Part of it might be changing user/business expectations, or changing the pieces around, but that can literally take years.

A few wrinkles I've heard about, but haven't directly dealt with is that RHEL7/systemd is too polite about unmounting disks on shutdown which means it will just hang. This is a huge problem for remote workstations that don't have IPMI. Another issue I've heard about is issues with a bunch of our diskless servers don't play well with it. Having to migrate and troubleshoot core issues like these every 2 years is just unfeasible.

As you point out, just working at a place where everything is 10 years old is frustrating, too. Last week I was trying to build VLC, which requires C++11 and had issues. At previous jobs I pushed really hard for a new enough kernel to evaluate Docker and have spent a lot of time selling people on Git.
I said in another comment: ransom is the part you do after you took something. It doesn't describe the taking part.

The context here is more like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_pledge_system#Ransom...
> saying that crimes are committed by bad people

That's different, and probably an objectively true statement unless law is written badly or by a thoroughly corrupt government.

> but that crimes are often committed by people in desperate situations and reduced opportunities

That's what I'm not sure I'd agree with. It's just as logical to think that people (not all) in desperate situations are so because they're restrictive in their actions, taking only opportunities that are in completely in line with their moral ideals. It's also logical to think that people (also not all) that are well off might be so because they took opportunities that might not have been of the highest morality (if not to say that they might have been outright illegal).

> which I think is a reasonable, non-moralistic interpretation of the statistics.

Can you cite those statistics?

What I dislike about that type of thinking is that it leads to prejudice, so I'm not sure it's "non-moralistic" in any case.

Anyway even if there is a location where most poor are bad and most rich are good, this seems to be very location and culture dependent. I don't think it's a claim that can be shown to be universally true.
Looks good, but it seems to be missing a home screen icon. On my iPhone it uses a screenshot for its icon.

A dark theme option might be nice.
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I'm not exactly surprised that someone who isn't using systemd for anything is getting little value from it. If you really want to give it a fair chance go all in on 'the systemd way' and you'll wonder how you ever got by without it.

- Services can depend on mounts, sockets, paths, or other servives. Don't start the NFS server until your backend storage is online and mounted and stop it if it goes offline.

- Are you annoyed when Symantec is chewing through your CPU? Use systemctl --edit and cap it at 20% with one CPUQuota option.

- Have a NodeJS service you want to bind to port 80 but not run as root? AmbientCapabilities=CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE and you're done.

- Want to automount a directory? Drop in an .automount file or add an option to fstab and you're done.

- Replace GRUB with systemd-boot and enjoy configuring boot options with simple INI files.

- Want to do offline updates? Have any service you want be part of system-update.target, touch /system-update and reboot.

- Annoyed that you can't have more than 3 dns servers or can't run DNSoTLS or DNSoHTTPS? systemd-resolved has your back.

- Forget about ntpd or chrony and use systemd-timesyncd is a lightweight standards complaint ntp client.

- Run all your userspace daemons like offlineimap, tmux, emacs, your dev server, etc. as systemd user services.

- Manage the permissions, resource usage, and monitor long running jobs with systemd-run.

- Replace cron with systemd timers that not only have more powerful timespecs, are hooked into the dependency solver, and can be monitored like any other service.

- Isolate troublesome 3rd party applications with systemd-portable which are a bit like privileged containers but easier to use.

- Run apps as unprivileged users without having to fill passwd with users and groups just for services with dynamic users.

These are just the ones off the top of my head. It boggles my mind how people say that systemd doesn't provide value.
"registered, insured, require a special license" that's not so bad.
Let's clear up a misunderstanding: ransoms aren't necessarily and always wrong. There's indeed some implication that way, but you could just as well argue that this type of ransom is justified.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_pledge_system#Ransom...
Millions have done it. Don’t need to register a business.
If you have two houses paid off, then you are way ahead of the game. So I wouldn't take any advice from any of us and just keep doing whatever it is that got you where you are.
Oddly enough, I think scooters have achieved what Segway tried to achieve nearly 20 years ago.

From the original promo video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rNw5nI_3iE ):

"What Henry Ford did in the century for rural America is what this device will do for city-dwellers all over this country and all over the planet. We have a solution, and it's a cost-effective, energy-effective solution, and that's a really big deal."

Perhaps the missing ingredient is that we have all have smartphones, so we can rent scooters whenever and wherever. It also probably helps that scooters are cheaper than Segways.
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> How exactly are you inferring this information?

I ask them how long they’ve been in the area; I’m a friendly guy, and people are surprisingly forthright.
More about auto-generated switch-cases
I’ve seen some restaurants with more than one tablet from the same delivery company. Couldn’t understand that, surely one tablet can handle multiple orders?
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Yeah it's a pretty odd article. It seems like things were working as they're supposed to and yet it implies that it's gonna be great now that the regulations have been lifted by the Trump admin. Unfortunately though, I'd imagine the banks will just continue with their bad behavior now that the shackles are off and it seems like there won't be anything in their way to slow down or halt their plans. Doesn't seem like a good thing really...
So, who signs the transactions? When an asset changes hands the transaction needs to be signed, how are those keys managed?

How are blockchain transactions confirmed to match the real world? You have to make sure that physical assets or financial instruments are properly cleared. Not everything can live on the blockchain.

Miners spend a ton of money on electricity, and this is necessary to protect the network from a 50% attack. What systems are in place to incentivize miners to spend the electricity to verify blocks?
1. Yes, why should you try to make more money if you already have that much? There's more to life than money, and I'd argue that incentivising people already earning millions to optimise for making more money is probably not good for society.

2. What makes them entitled to that money in the first place? Surely nothing other than the economic system which is grounded in a democratic negotiation. You may be interested to know that other languages don't use the word "earn" for income. For example, Spanish uses "ganar" which means "win". Just because you complete a task for which you are rewarded with money by our current economic system doesn't mean you have earned it (see also: people who think things are immoral just because they're illegal)

Sure, it's anti-capitalist. Why do you think that is a bad thing? I believe it's the government's role, because that extra freedom granted to the rich is taking what I consider to be far more important freedoms away from the poor.
Waking Up with Sam Harris. It's an app for iOS. Sam Harris is a very insightful philosopher and neuroscientist. He explains things in a very concise and concrete way that I value above my experience with Headspace.
I don’t know where this whole idea of minimum wage interactions being a stepping stone in developing social skills came from, because I don’t think these sort of rote, algorithmic interactions help anyone develop anything.
theguardian has updated the news with a full article, this one only have the title and twitters.

here's the better link https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/28/jair-bolsonaro...
I'm sorry, what? Golang didn't appropriate the term Rune in reference to Unicode. The term comes from Plan 9's UTF-8 handling library (libutf) which was written by ken and pike, who invented UTF-8. Rob Pike went on to write Go, which was heavily influenced by Plan9 C.

rune.c:2: "The authors of this software are Rob Pike and Ken Thompson."

https://github.com/9fans/plan9port/blob/master/src/lib9/utf/...
35% in Australia.

https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-22/uber-eats-criticis...
Also with RH's recent acquisition of CoreOS, that suite will also be in IBM's arena.
I work for "a corporate". We used to be big IBM shops (AIX, IBM Java, websphere, etc, etc...). But AIX is now hardly used and neither is websphere. It's mostly off the shelf k8s, wildfly and other open source projects deployed on RHEL (not my personal favorite since its kernel is way behind the times).
I think this is IBMs way of playing catch up in the arena. I worry how they will handle entrenched "political interests" - e.g. Webpshere/AIX/etc.. and the more open source friendly RedHat suite. Pretty sure its going to be one big mess in a few years time.
The biggest thing I've noticed with uber eats is the outrageous delivery fees. I'm not really interested in paying an extra $6.99 for a meal and I'm surprised other people are fine with it.
> GPFS, which is a shining beacon compared to ceph and gluster.

Solves an entirely different problem.
Discussing economics is off topic in a business merger? Its completely on topic. Economics is literally the study of scarce resource allocation. In the US, that’s everything from personal choice, business operations, through to global considerations.

To quote the dictionary “a social science concerned chiefly with description and analysis of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services”

It’s my understanding that HN is for technical discussions and business discussions. That’s exactly what my comment discussed. Further, that book by Galbraith is widely considered the gold standard for the Great Depression.

TLDR: if you want hacker news to be taken seriously as a place to discuss business and tech then my comment is appropriate in a merger discussion.
I don't agree with this at all. I don't think we have a talent shortage. You are correct that this would reduce incentives for the rich (although would it really be by that much - they would still have a huge incentive to maintain a high wealth level than a lower one).

But if the capital were sensibly redistributed (I advocate for spending some on things like univeral healthcare, and then directly sharing the rest out) it would also enable a vast group of people to take entrepreneurial risks that are not in a position to do so now.
Branching off of what you were saying, being an ML expert requires a high level of math typically only seen in academia, aka PhD required. Being an expert in using ML requires you to be an expert in your own field, and understanding your specific problem. Whether that requires a PhD is dependent on the field, but at the PhD level you end up collecting and analyzing significant amounts of data, and through that, understanding how to apply ML to that type of data, if applicable.

PhD for industry is useful for research and development positions in a variety of fields. Just like companies see bachelor's degrees as proof you can stick with something for 4 years and complete it, PhD degrees are proof you can develop and implement research procedures on a long time scale.
He could have meant that it’s an ambiguous term that could apply to other platforms.
This is all true but doesn't invalidate the point unless the rich and poor are spending the same proportion of wealth/income on these various categories.

The fact that the rich can afford to save more of their income proves that isn't true.

A more pedestrian proof would be that even if I make 10 times as much money as someone else, the most expensive gallon of milk I can buy is still only double or triple what a poor person would pay.
> The top of most any field is comprised of very competitive people.

Being competitive is good, if it helps you succeed. The degree to which you can be successful if you just "focus on your own shit" vs. paying close attention to what your competitors are doing is going to depend on what you are doing. If you play football professionally, you absolutely need to pay attention to what the competition is doing to succeed. If you write code for a living, you are going to be way more successful paying attention to your own shit than spending time paying attention to what everyone else is doing. It is just stupid to say that being competitive is the only way to get to the top of your field. Being the best at what you do will get you to the top of your field, by definition. The drive to get you there can come from wanting to be better than everyone else, or it can come from somewhere else.
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It's part of Bloomberg style guide.
Why There Will Never Be Another Red Hat: The Economics of Open Source (2014)
> And sidenote I am not sure where term "ping you" came from, but it needs to go away. It honestly conveys the message I don't need to or want to talk to the person that said it.

It's weird, isn't it. We all have our triggers, I suppose.

For example, I assume anyone who explicitly qualifies only a small number of their comments with 'tbh' or 'Honestly...' is lying to me the rest of the time.
> The sketchy aura of cryptocurrencies(at least with regards to Bitcoin and Ethereum) seems to be progressively fading away.

With tether still being a thing I have a /really/ hard time believing that.
I don’t know if it counts as financial engineering but Ford took investments for both of his incarnations of the Ford company including from a banker.
Rust is checking a lot, but type checking is not the slow part! (I can usually run cargo check within a couple of seconds max). Rusts LLVM IR output, LLVM, and linking seem to be the main culprits. And I'm hopeful that these can be greatly improved :)
Is Sam Harris actually a philosopher? I got the impression he isn't, not in the academic sense, anyway. Daniel Dennett is a philosopher.
(Don't want to use my regular id for this)

We were transitioning from an old IBM app stack to a Red Hat stack. I was spending a lot of time trying to make this happen.

This news makes me want to laugh and cry at the same time -
it is so ironic.
The best part is how scrupulously Michelle Davis avoided any uncomfortable mentions of the crimes that brought said punishments. Wells Fargo’s business tactic of forcing their sales staff to commit fraud and identity theft is instead described as “a pattern of lapses and abuses”.
As I mentioned elsewhere in the thread, Rune was the agreed-upon term by the inventors of UTF-8. They literally set the standard that was adopted as UTF-8.
> My company resells AppRiver products like spam filtering, secure email, and email continuity. I suppose they have phones you can call, but I wouldnt know. Their chat-based tech support is simply hands-down the best tech support I've ever seen, phone or no-phone.

I have to ask who the heck you're dealing with over at AppRiver because as someone who's been using AppRiver through $Reseller for years now, it's been damn near impossible to get anything done.

It took them nearly two months to finally acknowledge that we weren't incompetent idiots who didn't know how to use their portal, and that mail really was randomly going missing for weeks at a time and then showing up out of the blue.

Even when they did acknowledge it was a screwup on their end (some kind of crashed service on a couple of servers), their responses indicated they had no intention of adding any monitoring or ability for us to see that all the mailservers that handled our mail were actually online and working.

This is entirely aside from how atrocious their product is to use.

We're finally migrating to a competitor and while the experience hasn't been perfect, we already have a lot more confidence that things are working.
In my area, a lot of them are either free or $1.99, $2.99. (It will vary by demand though).

I think my threshold is $2.99 - in some scenarios when I'm extremely sick.
God bless Kees Cook
> JPMorgan has racked up more than $30 billion in penalties, legal costs and related obligations since the 2008 financial crisis, some of which stemmed from its acquisitions of Bear Stearns Cos. and Washington Mutual Inc.

So they were being punished for agreeing to purchase companies that were failing and that Obama had pushed them to buy... and then he turned around and fined them for the crimes these previous companies committed.

I don't think JPM is innocent in the 2008 debacle as is outlined later on in the article, but it just rubs me wrong that they were punished for BSC and WMI.
these: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/28/jair-bolsonaro...

"Controversial admirer of dictators says in video broadcast: ‘We are going to change the destiny of Brazil’

A far-right, pro-gun, pro-torture populist has been elected as Brazil’s next president after a drama-filled and deeply divisive election that looks set to radically reforge the future of the world’s fourth biggest democracy."

and thats only the 1st paragraph
There is virtually no voter fraud (that would be solved by Id requirements) in the United States either. Every study I have seen shows on the order of dozens per year in the entire country, and many of those are probably accidental.

And if you think about it, it’s pretty clear that in-person voter fraud is already difficult and risky enough in the US that it’s really not a scalable election manipulation strategy.
At a fundamental level, it tracks digital assets with certainty. This can be bitcoins, software licenses, whatever can be 100% digital. The link between the real world and the blockchain is an area of active research and innovation. Stablecoins backed by audited bank accounts are an area getting a lot of interest lately.

Also, your previous criticism of blockchain being worthless because “it’s 10 years old” is meaningless. The first email was sent in the 1970’s. Technology takes time.
Is there a short summary of which problems are solved by which filesystem?
I don't find it odd. Economists are typically skeptical of government picking winners and losers. Here this is mentioned as the result of an unwritten rule, and as the title says, it was not done transparently.
Dark patterns.
Ah yes, the slippery grope fallacy.
I scanned the article title.
I thought “huh”.

I saw the source (Bloomberg). I thought “oh”.

Post “the big hack” effect.
Is that bad?
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It's all much easier than that:

It's just the Poisson process, e.g., with a nice chapter in E. Cinlar, Introduction to Stochastic Processes.

Buses come as arrivals. So bus arrivals are a stochastic arrival process where stochastic just means varying randomly over time where, really, the randomly doesn't mean anything, includes deterministic arrivals, that is, known exactly in advance, but also admits any case of unpredictability.

Well, in short, if have a stochastic arrival process with stationary, independent increments, then the arrival process is a Poisson process and there is a number, usually denoted by lambda, so that the times between arrivals are independent, identically distributed random variables with exponential distribution with arrival parameter, the arrival rate, lambda. The stationary means that the probability distribution of the times between arrival does not change over time. The independent increments means that the time from one arrival to the next is independent of all the past history of arrivals.

The exponential distribution has the property, easy to verify with simple calculus, that the conditional expectation of the arrival time given that the arrival time is already greater than some number is the same as the expected arrival time.

So, net, if bus arrivals form a Poisson process, then the time until the next bus arrives is the same after waiting five minutes as not having waited at all.

Cinlar's treatment is nice because it is qualitative, that is, has assumptions that can often be confirmed or believed just intuitively. And we might not believe that bus arrivals meed the assumptions.

This subject can continue with, say, hazard curves for equipment failures and a lot more about Poisson processes.

E.g., the sum of two independent Poisson processes, say, Red buses and Blue buses, assuming that they are Poisson processes, is also a Poisson process with arrival rate the sum of the Red and Blue arrival rates. If randomly throw away some arrivals, then what is left is also a Poisson process with arrival rate adjusted in the obvious way.

In Feller's volume II is the renewal theorem that the sum of independent arrival processes, Poisson or not, with mild assumptions, converges to a Poisson process as the number of processes summed grows. So, if the users of a sufficiently busy Web site act independently with mild assumptions, then the Web site will see arrivals accurately as a Poisson process.

The vanilla Poisson process is Geiger counter clicks.

There is much more to the pure and applied math and applications of Poisson processes.
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Where have you seen that they've bought Bitcoin and are trying to buy more? It would be interesting to see the evidence of this I think.

And as a note... other cryptocurrencies aren't 'fake cryptocurrencies' since they're actually cryptocurrencies. There might be some scams for sure, but ones that are not Bitcoin are just not Bitcoin yet are still currency.

Also, why are you putting quotes around different things like 'fake cryptocurrencies,' 'bitcoin,' 'ethereum,' 'crypto-kitties,' 'kale and pulled pork burgers,' 'bore,' 'ajax came along,' and 'new innovation?' I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to imply there.
Ask HN: What would you do with a lot of spare compute hardware?
Due to a project I was working on no longer needing the resources, I currently own several servers with up to date hardware. In aggregate, there are:

- 160 vCPUs, Xeon v4 2.2 Ghz

- 512GB RAM, DDR4 2400 Mhz

- 10 TB SSD

- 196 TB HDD

I'd like to hear suggestions on how I can direct these resources for the most impact. This could mean a new project or an existing project/organization. But it has to be something noncommercial, not a new business idea.
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Most importantly, you have written proof what they said.
The Great Depression II was on the cards in 2007/2008 before governments took on gargantuan debts to brush it under the carpet. We're all paying for that with governments straining under comically heavy debt loads and interest rates held stupidly low long-term to avoid bankrupting the banks. The last thing we should be doing is allowing the same corrupt institutions which created the crisis loose to do it all over again. It will all just happen again with no room for manoeuvre left.