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1) Udev doesn't do anything about separate /usr, its systemd that does. Both are in the same source tree but unrelated at runtime(i.e. udev can be used without systemd).

2) systemd only prints a warning about separate /usr, it then continues to go on as before, so it does not affect this working or not.

3) The reasons that separate /usr are broken is not because of systemd, but the other parts of the system that rely on things in /usr in early boot. This happens in a variety of cases where services or hw support code rely on binaries in /usr/bin or data in /usr/share.

Nothing you change in udev or systemd can make this work better, its all about fixing the rest of the system, something nobody cared to do for the 10 years before systemd added the warning to tell people of this problem.
Amen to that. The doc for it sucks too (not that there's enough there, but most doc for it found by google et al is obsolete/deprecated. And last but not least... the plugin ecosystem for dojo sucks even worse, and whatever widgets/dijits actually exist for it, usually look like @ss.
The only one who seems to be committed to dojo is...IBM.
I'm committing a crime by (supposedly) breaking a law from a country I've never been to? I guess I should start wearing a hijab so I don't break Saudi Arabia's laws too.
I am not an entrepreneur in the HN-sense, so i may just be naive but... Why do you have to shut down you web company once you run out of money? I mesn, can't you just lay off the employees, close the office, take the servers to your basement, get a 'real' job and turn your startup into a hobby?

I mean, the only really necessary expense there is to running a wep-app or whatever, is the electrical bill, right? I assume you've build something in those two years, why flush it away?

Honest question, hope to learn more about the nuances of being a founder!
I wish you could make your point in fewer words.
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Maybe "Concorde" was just his way of saying it's fast and it transports people.
Very simple.

They are a company that sells very high price equipment to very few people. All the company structure is optimized for that. The engineers, the sales channel, everything.

They simply can't compete in a market of low cost 3D printers, selling in the millions, like Silicon Graphics could not compete with NVidia selling cheap cards for gamers.
That's the ridiculous part, the whole story sounds so much like it was taken right out of a movie I have no idea even where to begin to tease out the truth.
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I disagree that it's a one-off case. This case now sends a chilling effect to all security researchers. Next, what if a stock broker finds a press release on a web site that was published early, and makes money from it? What if a blogger finds a leaked photo of an unannounced product? The point is that they took a law that was meant to prevent you from hacking past security measures to get into a private computer, and successfully applied it to data posted on a public web server, and that is ridiculous, regardless what his intent was to do with the data.
...the first bit of Hyperloop speculation that actually makes sense and seems plausible ...though the price will this will likely go up because it's new and untested technology and it has to be SAFE: the price difference between "doing something" and "doing something safely" can be orders of magnitude (think airplane safety) so I wouldn't rush to invest in it though...
I find this debate a bit perplexing: You're asking me to answer a straw man argument that nobody here has made, so I'm not entirely sure what your overall point is.

Mine rollers can be effective for civilian demining, but only in the right type of terrain with the right type of vegetation and when used in concert with other demining techniques. I didn't just imply that it my posts, I stated it outright when asked when and where mine rollers could be effective.

But when used independently, as the Mine Kafon's video shows, mine rollers are useless for civilian demining and, because of the false sense of security they provide, could even be harmful. A minefield that people believe to be cleared, but isn't, is far more dangerous than a minefield that's demarcated and which most people know to avoid.

So I'd amend your provided phrase and say:

"Mine rollers used independently are useless for civilian demining and should not be seen as civilian mine clearance solutions."

I'm not sure how much clearer I could be on this.
SQL Server stopped being a "toy" a long time ago. If it ever was.
I think that you may be my only truly whitehat friend. <g>
I'm aware this is not adding much to the discussion but I couldn't shift the intro to futurama out of my head while reading the post.
Well, they had more than 30 years since the main technology was developed!!.

These kids are bringing 3d printing to the masses because the IBMs of the 3d printing won't do it on their own.

There is a balance between granting monopolies(patents), and making those monopolies eternal, or not respecting or giving credit to the creators of something.
>No, the problem space being "scalability of component interactions, ...

>I have difficulty imagining your distance calculator needing any of those things, though.

Right, because no one's stupid enough to use (or stick to the use of) REST for a distance calculator or any other algorithmically generated information. But make no mistake, scalability of component interaction is an issue, just a solved one (for those that see REST for what it is).

The solution is: specify an input scheme (for a hand calculator: put the first number, then plus, then the second number, then equals) and let the user choose the inputs. This saves you from the (intercomponent-unscalable) combinatorial explosion in which you have to give the user a link to every possible computation as they navigate the interface, and which is the REST method.

So, any exposed function in which you can't feasibly blast every possible input set over the network is REST-incompatible, so I guess the serious RESTers don't think you should do it. Which kinda makes it little more than a footnote.
"Rail gun" could illustrate the way carriages are added to and remove from the loop.
The good thing is, this kind of system can be well tested before entering the market, because it does not rely on human intervention. Meaning, you test exactly the conditions you will always have.
Very impolite. Criminal? Only if you check many entities and lots of them notice and it bothers them or you check one for a long time and you bother it. Might be harassment.

I can't see what the coat was supposed to be in AT&T case though.
Interesting.. What if if gets shot one direction, presurizing something, which it uses to shoot back the other direction

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At first, we had to drive all over to find a phone that couldn't even MMS (because MMS can be used to send email). It was a nightmare.

Eventually some of those restrictions were relaxed.
In the technical literature, the term "rail gun/railgun" is strongly associated with electromagnetic propulsion methods:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railgun
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I'd note that this bias extends beyond startups; see http://jeps.efpsa.org/blog/2012/06/01/falsification-of-previ...

studies of failures don't just reveal things that increase failure rates, they prevent false positives.

Imagine X is some innovation that is being talked up because recently several companies had or used X to succeed.

If 19 out of 20 times X makes a startup more likely to fail or if X has no meaningful effect on failure rates at all,
or if X only helps in situation Y, but you only hear about the times that people succeeded with X, you might try to use X, to no benefit or to actual harm to your business.

If startup success is rare, then trying to generalize only from instances of it may lead to errors. We have more instances of failures, therefore we can learn a great deal about commonalities in startups that fail. Of course the smart thing to do is to make a hypothesis about X, and compare startups with X that failed and succeeded to startups without X that failed and succeeded to see if there is a significant effect on the rate.

I'd note that errors of judgment about what causes startups to do well or fail get fed into the investor system. If X is useless or harmful, but your investors think it's a good idea, you will have problems.
You have a good point here.

More prevalent in the financial industry, you have a lot of successful retirees who hold talks and write books what kind of tea they drank. Statistically nobody beats the market, so these people had very likely just luck.

Causation is not relation, everybody knows that. But it is damn hard to figure out what and often the people themselves are biased. I would say a big percentage of tips you get this way are totally useless, but to figure out which one of them depends on your judgement.
You "disagree that it's a one-off case", but the comment you've replied to did not claim it is a one-off case. Nor did the comment you reply to dispute that it may have chilling effects. Who exactly are you disagreeing with?
Or a continuous maglev force (as the OP wrote) for the entire track, augmented with air pressure to store acceleration energy in the system for the other trains.
USA don't appear to be worried about letting such things as jurisdiction and sovereignty of other states interfere with their application of various USC.

tptacek's post (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4812735, '[located outside the United States but using it in a manner that affected interstate or foreign commerce or communication of the United States];') and other info on the statute appears to show that the law is extended to those that cause detriment to US trade from anywhere.
Ah, I was thinking of a Gatling gun (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_cannon), not a rail gun. The concept of rotary tubes seemed to mesh with OP's vision.
Oh, weev isn't a good guy. He's a right shithead.

He's also a whistleblower.

The emails were not sold, pastebinned, or mailed MobileSafari overflows. The media was contacted because he's a megalomaniac.

One thing he is not is a criminal.
Of course it is an attack. A conference was shut down. If in the future all conferences have to make an effort for diversity, it is a tax on all of us - so it is an attack. If somebody gets my job because they are female or black, it is an attack. If I get blamed for not making an extra inclusive effort, it is an attack.

Actually I think what makes me angry is that notion that white men have handed everything to them on a plate. That is very far from reality, and dismisses a lot of human experience. Life is much more complicated than the height of your paycheck.
Pingdom isn't fine-grained (or/therefore accurate) enough for this sort of display to be of much use, unfortunately.
The federal government has plenary authority to regulate interstate commerce. Federal law generally overrides common law to the extent its unambiguous.

It's true that Judge Kozinski in the 9th Circuit said he would not "apply a badly drafted piece of legislation to lead to [an] absurd result."

But the issue is not cut and dry.

Kozinski essentially acknowledged he was interpreting the statute in a manner possibly at odds with its very language. These courts get reversed all the time (over 70% of their cases) - and other circuits have read the law more narrowly.

And the government itself supports a narrow reading of the law.

OP's article is over the top. My point is, the "authorization" part of the law appears extremely broad and as the DOJ puts it: "the case law on this issue is muddy."
sounds interesting,but this wont fit well with "it leaves when you arrive".

I always imagined Hyperloop as carriages pushed by a plasma armature, in a rail gun loop. just like a plasma-rail gun.
Based on the movies, I would think that a Batman supporter would be in favour of a warrantless surveillance bill.
While this story is sad I think it is super important for YC. This page is usually crowded with stories and posts of people telling you how they made it and what you can do to be super successful yourself.
Stories like this one serve the important purpose of unskewing our views on how easy it is to start a company and get rich.
There are reasons why people like 9-5 jobs at big companies (first and foremost probably safety) and it is important not to lose track of them reading all those "you just need to write everything on pink flashcards and your startup is going to make millions next week" stories. :)
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In the dim and distant past, I could set the keyboard layout used when X first started (in particular, the layout used for my login screen, KDM) in xorg.conf. Not pretty, but it worked.

Then HAL came along, and I couldn't do that, but there was an undocumented XML file that I could use to set my keyboard layout. Even uglier, but fine, after enough googling I found out how to do it.

Then HAL was deprecated, and now I don't know how to set that keyboard layout and can't find out (after logging in is fine, but having the correct keyboard layout is if anything more important when typing a password than in general use). I asked Matthew Garrett and he asked why would you ever want to change your keyboard layout?

This is why I don't use linux any more.
So it's what they have in Futurama?
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I'm not really sure how it "can't crash", nor how there aren't any "rails" (or things that look suspiciously like rails).
Maybe the people chastating zynga aren't the same as the ones cheering for this company? I find both distasteful for the same reasons personally.

HN is not 1 grand hive-mind with everyone sharing the same opinion.
Pick out the parts, build, and setup a powerful gaming desktop, and sell it at double price. Ideally, you already have a buyer in mind, and you talk to him beforehand so you can meet his needs specifically.

People who don't know much about computers, but want (and can afford) the very best, would probably be happy to drop $2-3k on a custom-built computer that you can put together for $1k off of Newegg and a couple of hours of work. Set up Windows, drivers, and all of their Steam games, so they can just pick it up and play. Plus, you get to play with new gadgets, if that's your thing.
Not only is writing important for working with non-technical people, but it's a big part of interacting with your fellow engineers too. Think stuff like providing clear pull request feedback without offending the person you're reviewing. And, if you work in an office that avoids interruptions by using email/IRC, it obviously helps to be comfortable writing out your thoughts.

I'll also make the (admittedly unprovable) assertion that good code is good writing. Code and sentences can say the same things in different ways - what's the one that minimizes misinterpretation while remaining concise and interesting to read? Just as you want the key points of an essay to live within the most engaging sentences, important code should look important. Style in programming is as crucial as it is subjective, and it requires you to empathize with your readers much as you would when writing anything else.

So yeah, dust off that Tumblr account and use it for something other than reblogging.
> it leaves when you arrive

Its just maglev trains with some novel enclosed design with carriage dissociation?

A bit like this chinese train concept that has drop off/pick up of carriages:*

*http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s...
Just like everything else in life the system would be subject to the laws of thermodynamics. The act of pressurising air would heat it up, and heat loss would mean that it wouldn't be fully reversible.

I suspect that a fully evacuated system using magnetic propulsion and energy recovery would be more efficient - the turbulent nature of air and the low-quality nature of heat energy would probably work against you to make a pneumatic spring fairly inefficient.
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OR MAYBE GOOGLE VERY SMART AND ACT LIKE MANY PEOPLE WANT NEXUS.
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I would remove the "20+ Skins" item from the grid on the sales page. That is not what get people buying (I hope). This does not provide business Value and it's the last thing I want my employees to spend time with.
> But the crux of your response to Rob is that they had the intent to commit fraud

No, the crux of his response is that the government alleged fraud, and so using the case to claim that just accessing a site is a federal crime is at best hyperbole. Whether or not the allegation of intent to commit fraud is accurate or not is not relevant fo that argument.
So let me get this straight: now we have two branches of udev that are maintained by ... unconservative[1] ... people, and no usable one. Hopefully this will be resolved before it gets out of hand. I think the situation is especially iffy for distros like Debian who are committed to long term support of whatever they choose.

[1] I didn't want to write "idiots", partly because I actually respect what the systemd camp is trying to do.
A sad story, but if you start by getting 4000$ of chairs you are doing something wrong, no wonder your expenses were bigger than the revenues.
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Depends. Coming from a different direction, meaning a non-MS world, I found Lotus really pleasant to work with and extremely powerfull. The DB-style of everything, the apps that you could embed into it made it very enterprise, for it could automatize a lot of the processes and internal flows.

Unfortunatelly, in a MS world domination for home computers, a new employee would find Lotus quite strange and unappealing. Sad.

PS. the article makes a mistake too, the full SmartSuite costs 342$ not just the 1-2-3.
I clicked on Buy and was greeted by a screen with DANGEROUSAPPS all over it. I suppose most users have reflexes to hit the back button now when they see a warning like that.
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Another point to mention is that it is also solar-powered.
I love it, and I'm definitely the target audience. There is, however, one question that it leaves hanging in my head: can I use this with my colleagues? Where is the data stored? Can the data be synchronized?

My biggest reason for using a CRM and not a paper notebook for sales data is because I want to know when my colleague claled Customer Joe, so I can refer to that latest call when being in touch with him again.
I enjoyed your talk recorded last year. There was a time when you felt that doing a game is too competitive and it may be better to do some other app. What are your thoughts now?
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sorry for being kind of a buzz kill - but I'd rather see elon musk venture away from traditional engineering ventures and going into life sciences. the hyperloop seems like an interesting concept, but I don't really see where it fits in, given that his electrical revolution of individual transportation succeeds. Very densely populated areas like new york are already reasonably served by a metro - scaling that system might be cheaper and equally effective as the hyperloop described by jacques mattheij. building new tunnels is very expensive and would probably account for most of the costs in this endeavor. additionally finding spare space in dense cities to construct such a hyperloop might be very difficult besides existing sewer systems and electrical lines, offsetting the benefits of the hyperloop (after all this would require massive public funding)

expanding this system to long distances would be really interesting, however even more expensive, given the need to construct long tunnels or tubes.
Musk has also noted that the system would be "protected from the elements"... Perhaps he meant the 'pods' inside the tube would be protected.
Pictures do work best. (You're not just selling a tree, you're selling a nice christmass feeling). They have quite a few of these services in Holland. Did you know most people also hate decorating one? You could sell the decorating as an add-on service.
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Hello people, this is a side project which I have been working on. The idea is really simple: To run an auction on your website, all you have to do is embed our button.

Any feedback etc. would be great!
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I wish we could just go back to plain old e-mail. So elegant, so efficient. Many providers to choose from. I can automatically put them into nice labelled boxes. Everything comes out from one big firehose of information and is automatically sorted, indexed, archived.
I'm not a member so I am not sure, is this just a concept/design or is this already an usable thing?
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I saw this coming and would have shorted Autonomy if I had the money.

Shouldn't you have shorted HP rather than Autonomy? They're the ones who were making the mistake.

Looking at HPQ's chart, the stock is down about 60% since Apotheker decided to put it out of its misery.
> The service focuses on fixing vulnerabilities in commonly used and popular software solutions such as WordPress, Drupal and Joomla.

What does this mean? Can you perhaps explain the service? Are these patches based on Drupal/Joomla security releases?
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Whatever the Hyperloop is, it's a long-distance transport mechanism, not a replacement for the subway -- he said so much himself: http://inhabitat.com/elon-musks-hyperloop-train-could-travel...

Techwise, I still think the Lofstrom loop theory sounds the most likely: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_loop
It is completely usable.

I've not done a good job of showcasing the buttons in auction.

A staging page with buttons embedded is here -

http://afexample.herokuapp.com/product/1

You can use a test card - 4242424242424242 to make a bid.
This is how trademarks are supposed to work; "The Oatmeal" and "Oatmeal Studios" are similar and it's reasonable to think that consumers could confuse the two. At the very least, it's way more legitimate than the FunnyJunk crap.
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Been there...

1) Sell your stuff

2) Odd job. I always do this, from replacement delivery guy to wedding planner assistant. Ask your network for a short gig and most of the time they have something for you

3) Borrow some money (family/friend)

4) Loan (CC/bank)

Done that