skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
exponentially increasing material consumption

Which isn't necessary, because first, the population is no longer increasing exponentially; IIRC the current projection is that world population will level off by about 2050; and second, the amount of material required to accomplish particular things is decreasing as we find new materials and new ways of using them. For example, the structure of cars used to be entirely steel; now much of it is composites, which contain less material and are less energetically expensive to make.

if you listen to the macro-economists, that would cause failure

It depends on which macro-economists you listen to. Some of them understand that increasing wealth does not have to mean increasing consumption of materials or energy.
Netflix story all IT managers should read
Excellent article from the Huffington Post about how Nextflix manages IT and the culture to support it.
Agreed here. Then, at that time, there should be a re-evaluation.

Perhaps also at that time openRC will be a potential candidate and far less experimental.
In addition to the prudential concern issues (which are laid out in the article), there are some concrete issues:

With sysv init, it is very easy to add new services that may not be supported out of the box. There are scripts like rc.local, etc, which can be edited to start anything. This means that setting up a new service that can be supported properly is a lot more work, especially if it is for development systems. While I haven't had systemd crash, I have had issues with stuff requiring manual start (i.e logging in as root and running the startup script for the app) when a simple rc.local-type approach would have been far simpler.

Another problem I have had is the issue of process accounting, where if the process starts up a daemon and exits, then systemd has trouble determining the status properly. This can cause issues for things like monitoring (which means basically I don't use systemd for monitoring whether services are running).

What this means, in essence, is that to make this work the way I would like I have had to reinvent part of the sysv init system inside of systemd and then handle things like process tracking the old fashioned way (pid files and shell scripts).

In short, in addition to the "I don't want my system to have to reboot and this is a bad architecture for that requirement" you have quite a bit of areas where there are leaky abstraction layers which don't really add any benefit to administration of the system.
Remember how rapidly the general opinion on smoking changed? It wasn't that long ago that smoking was cool. I think we are seeing the beginning of a similar shift for personal automobiles in urban areas. It wasn't the taxes that drove away smoking, it was the frowns and glares. The shift will take longer. So much of our society is structured around vehicles. Government identification is mostly through driver's licenses. Whole chunks of the judicial and police systems are dedicated to traffic violations.
I'd draw the line at where PTSD is actually induced. IE, actual damage.

Replace "motorcyclist missing a head" with "photos of Hiroshima or liberated nazi death camps" and I don't think anybody would think it particularly strange that disturbing images are available to view. Yeah, there is historic significance behind those examples, but that doesn't really come into play when considering the effects of disturbing images on people, does it?
If there were a way to know in advance that a prospective tenant was going to damage the place or be a nuisance, or to stay a long / short time (whichever is worse) wouldn't landlords already be using that technique?
The rise of the darknets will be funded in blood & bitcoins. Someone should write a novel on this, it's juicy!
7b: if the picture is black and white Saturation becomes Dim.
Do searches on indeed.com for various kinds of engineers and see what's up. Web developer, software engineer, mobile engineer, mobile developer, data scientist, data engineer, data analyst, front-end engineer, front-end web developer.

You'll quickly get an idea of what kinds of languages companies use / care about! Also, make sure to keep learning, the smartest engineers not only continue learning about what other languages, tools, etc are out there but also keep their idea muscle fresh. Keep coming up with ideas on how to make what you're doing + the world better.
Actually that's just C (name nesting)
I like this writing. Solid.

But, I'm curious: What are the specific deficiencies the author sees in daemontools? "Not ready for primetime."

I mean, it's so typical for bloggers to say certain software is this or that (some generalisation), without giving details.

I don't know much about systemd. I find Linux too chaotic, a moving target that moves a little too frequently for my tastes. It's changes like these that I find take too much energy to follow.

I doubt it's a problem specific to Linux though. As a BSD user, I've been amazed with how much init.c has grown in size over the years. A variety of developers have touched it.
Yes. Going to post a write up shortly on how I waived the $250 installation fee for 105 Mbps internet.
I actually don't see it as a "feminism" issue. I'm not being offended on behalf of women. I would equally find a pile of poo at the win screen, or a pair of "Truck balls" on the envelope/car just as tasteless. Not offensive. just stupid immature gags that only appeal to teenage boys. But I guess we're in dog whistle territory if I don't express immense JOY at a naked woman being depicted in a business context. If groaning at a dorky pun or a poo joke or a naked lady makes me a feminist white knight so be it.
Glad to find Marsalis on HN :)
Another big exception is plastic, which covers the vast majority of usecases. Also we're nowhere near "peak" coal, so metal is not going to be a problem any time soon. Eventually, yes, but not this century.

Frankly what happened at Fukushima is over-cautiousness with nuclear power. The stupid fact is that if they hadn't shut down the entire plant, they wouldn't have lost cooling, and we would all have been perfectly fine. Of course, whoever took that decision would have been fired, and skinned alive, allowed to heal, and skinned alive again. I even read at one point that the operators knew this, but followed procedure.

I would also like to say the death toll of Fukushima compares favorably with wind-power related deaths during the same circumstances, and compares insanely favorable compared to fossil-fuel related deaths (some people actually died inspecting a refinery reactor when the wave knocked it over, most are from pipes exploding due to over-pressure. Total is several hundred). Total area rendered inaccessible due to Fukushima also compares favorably compared to area polluted to the point humans can't safely live there any more for fossil fuel plants and refineries.
Can someone confirm exposure level? From article it seems only comcast email and forum servers were hacked.

Comcast user here, wondering if I need to change comcast account password.
why would anyone use powershell when there is cygwin.
The solution here, which the article fails to mention, and which every security expert will undoubtedly tell you, is to make sure you use super random numbers (that's the technical term, for the layperson) by adding two random numbers together.
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Yep, rotten.com among others exposed me to things that I'm sure would've horrified my parents if they knew. I don't regret it though, I think it shaped me positively. I was around 11 when I saw this for instance:

http://www.sibkray.ru/upload/blog/e4b/07.jpg (extremely NSFW)

I still consider it to be the most powerful image I've ever seen. It made me realize the absolute horror of war, in an instant. I would rather my child see this image than witness the cartoon violence of Call of Duty and then see military propaganda like the commercial below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkKF4ZcqW14

Kids can handle reality with the right guidance. I have been "desensitized" I suppose, but only in that I'm capable of seeing similar images without cringing. Hopefully that would extend to a situation in which someone was critically injured, I would be able to jump in and help them without hesitation or squeamishness over the blood/gore involved.
> You really need some reading lessons, then.

Thanks for the insult saraid216! Is there anything else about me that you'd care to attack? (If not, feel free to take a look at my comment history. I'm sure you can find something. If it'll make you feel better, I'm all ears.)
You are so right on this. I realized at a young age, if you
want a life and you live in the Bay Area(except S.F.); you
need a reliable vehicle--preferably a vehicle you can repair
youself. If you are reading and poor--buy a old Toyota. The 22r engine is almost indestructible.
if you think nutrition is confusing try understanding genomics
More realistically, through an arbitrary emotional choice.

There's a reason stories of housing discrimination generally center around communities employing rent control. When faced with more tenants than they know what to do with, landlords have way less financial consequences from doing all manner of unfortunate things.
Yeah seriously. My grandma died and left me enough money to not have to work for like ten years, even without investing it. I live relatively simply to try and stretch it out, but goddamn if it hasn't removed a ton of stress from my life and made me a lot happier. I've got the freedom to spend my days writing and drawing a comic about a lesbian robot with reality problems instead of scrambling for crappy web dev work or begging my friends who draw stuff for PopCap for an in to go work all week on stuff I don't care much about.
> Which isn't necessary, because first, the population is no longer increasing exponentially...

The problem you run into there is that for a long time the elderly population will be increasing exponentially, and care for the elderly falls on the shoulders of a smaller portion of the population.

> the amount of material required to accomplish particular things is decreasing as we find new materials and new ways of using them.

This would suggest that capita energy consumption of countries with cutting edge technology is well ahead of per capital energy consumption in countries where people have simpler societies and less manufacturing technologies, right? Is that borne out by numbers and evidence?

> Some of them understand that increasing wealth does not have to mean increasing consumption of materials or energy.

Please define "wealth."
Please don't call manual copy-paste code changes refactorings. Here is the definition of refactoring :

> Typically, refactoring applies a series of standardised basic micro-refactorings, each of which is (usually) a tiny change in a computer program's source code that either preserves the behaviour of the software, or at least does not modify its conformance to functional requirements. Many development environments provide automated support for performing the mechanical aspects of these basic refactorings.

If you attempt to do computer's work for them, you're going to screw up. I screw up manual refactorings in Java too (e.g. misspelling variable names, misspelling one of the gazillion xml file declarations), and much more than in Python. Don't do manual refactoring.

The real flaw is that the architecture of python makes automated refactoring impossible. This is not due to the indentation sensitivity of Python.
> And, as Knuth puts it, "when you say it correctly to your computer, the terminal may become slightly moist". (Like the "ch" in "loch".)

I understand that LaTeX is a pre-internet piece of software, and thus it may not have been apparent that it's popularity would spread more through written than spoken word, but I still find this kind of thing pretentious (or at least a little silly).

If I named a popular piece of software "Kyei" after the Burmese word for "world", I feel like it would be kind of silly to get angry when english speakers didn't pronounce it "Chai" (The correct pronunciation).
Why Apple included?
the country is named turkey for a reason
This has been happening for the last 20 years. The quintessential "commute" town is Tracy. Grew out of nowhere to fill this exact need.
Godot Engine open sourced
Strong parallels to Cryptonomicon.
What an inefficient idea. Better to give it to the person who values it the most, as signified by the price they are willing to pay.
Just do it; assume the worst; save yourself real trouble.
The thing is, at this point, there was literally zero additional involvement this guy had to have to anything related to the game. Just sit back and check in on an ever increasing bank account. Once the fad died down, enjoy the money. He didn't have to show himself, do interviews, anything at all.

Just accept the cash and fade off into obscurity.

It's hard to empathize with somebody who had to take a specific action to make himself less better off in the end, he was better off with doing nothing at all.
We don't even have to make analogies; if it is protected information a "reasonable person" expects some kind of _obligatory_ login authentication, not an optional one.
Even for bad poker sites they are using HW RNGs. I worked for a hybrid meat space/online casino and we were using IDQ cards. Except when we were not. Owner got squirrely and went for bottom dollar to implement a stand alone version of a carefully engineered system I had developed. The developers ended up using /dev/random instead of at least making a 1 gig rng lookup table. Also the ticketing system was unencrypted so you could print whatever you on a barcode and feed it to the redemption machine to clean it out. Also the games were not tested statistically. Literally a guy sat there and played games until it "felt" right.

I tried to help them out, but eventually I washed my hands of everything and walked away. Too many weird things going on. From talking to others in the industry it is not that different elsewhere.

TL;DR - If you do work for casinos be ready to walk away when things get weird.
I'm sorry I gave you the impression that I think there are only two options. I don't think that. I don't think my way of life is better. I don't think yours is. I just want people to stop saying their way of life is obviously better (even if it is some sort of middle ground), and that because of that, we should just start taxing people for doing things they don't happen to like.

If you feel the desire to press me more for my view on taxes (because you perceive some inconsistency), and in general, government, then I implore you not to. It's a waste of time, and in all probability, we will vehemently disagree.
I was morbidly curious to the extent that if somebody put a nasty link in front of me, I would have followed it. But I didn't actively seek those things out. To some extent, it was a test of macho-ness: can I handle this gore? What about this birth defect? I think a lot of kids are like that.

I regret it because I feel it's shaped my personality, lessened my sense of empathy, and put a bunch of disgusting images in my head that I'll never be able to get rid of.
It's a minor theme in Halting State by Charles Stross
I also switched from Chrome to Safari for similar reasons to parent: Gmail is lightning fast in Safari, compared to Chrome. In fact, gmail is unusably slow in Chrome sometimes. This makes no sense to me, considering Google, Inc. runs on MacBook Pros.

I eventually switched back to Chrome when it was fast on gmail again. (Because Safari's UX is awful for people that understand right click) That's the problem with chrome: frequent automatic updates offer you no quality assurance.
Just did it. I checked and it seems they bundle email account even if you never use it.
The human mind has a pretty awful ping time, and there's no reason not to take things slow in microgravity.
Not bad. Although UI can be much improved.
I could be wrong, but I think PTSD can be induced with images.

The Hiroshima/Nazi photos were powerful because they were such a rare display of extreme violence. (At least, that's how I remember feeling when I first saw them.) Plus, their impact was lessened because they were grainy, old, and black and white. Would you be OK with kids today seeing a modern mass grave -- bodies hacked up, heads cut off, etc.? Me, I'd be wary.
From another point of view, one could say it's already been fine-tuned and is running quite well as is. In that case, why bother messing with it?
> we don't have the "know-how" to colonize other planets, and before sending people in space there's a lot of work to be done in that field.

And sending people into space is how we're getting that know-how.
You saw the first season, maybe CC bumped up the shows budget for second season.
damn i didn't download it yet
> Another big exception is plastic, which covers the vast majority of usecases. Also we're nowhere near "peak" coal, so metal is not going to be a problem any time soon. Eventually, yes, but not this century.

Coal matters if one is concerned about CO2 emissions if nothing else.

> The stupid fact is that if they hadn't shut down the entire plant, they wouldn't have lost cooling, and we would all have been perfectly fine.

Do we know for sure that containment wasn't lost due to structural damage from the earthquake?

> I would also like to say the death toll of Fukushima compares favorably with wind-power related deaths during the same circumstances...

Is death toll the only factor though? I don't know about you but I think the major impact of Chernobyl of Fukushima will not be, in a hundred years, the death toll but the fact that you have areas of land that are no longer useful for many purposes, like growing food.
> should the effort fail, but as a retiree you are looking at old-age poverty

As mooreds mentioned in his comment[1], they might already be looking at old-age poverty. People are living longer, healthcare costs are rising, retirement funds are not keeping up, pensions and retirement benefits are being gutted by corporations and governments alike. So, speaking as someone who has a retired relative trying this idea, the downside might be minimal.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7208690
Me too, but mine is for iOS7: https://github.com/joeblau/FlappyBlock.

Mine was more of a learning exercise in playing with the iOS7 physics engine.
Show HN: Flappy Block – Flappy Bird clone using the iOS7 Physics Engine
FYI: The comment was put there to stimulate discussion. Thanks for the perspective and reading material provided.
Thank you for the link, I will check it out.
This should be implemented as a editor plugin...with the actual files having none
Except that sysv init, having tiny attack surface, very rarely needs updates.
yes please i hate disqus
The minute he exposed how much money he was making, he made himself a huge target in Vietnam. Making that much money is dangerous in SEA if you don't have any connections.
I have comcast, but have no idea what my account credentials are. I have never logged in to anything for them...
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I guess it's a good time to be in Battery's portfolio. Adrian is absolutely brilliant.

Also, that's a big loss for Netflix. I'm sure they have a lot of smart people, but losing someone of Andrian's caliber is not something that can be easily replaced.
You've perfectly illustrated the post you are replying to, from my perspective
Is the following needing an edit?

"One needs few team members who understand how to build systems at scale, or have clear understanding how to build systems at scale."
Aww, I was hoping to show off the coolest graphics I ever made doing some seriously intense data analysis on TEM images in MATLAB... but TeX only. Oh well =(
They do and try if it is quick. Credit reports are used as a proxy "Paid back his bills = proxy for will probably not skip on rent and trash the place". Others could use social status, for example, maybe other un-expected clues. Would it be illegal to create national black lists that land-lords can share? Casinos do it... It is just not worth bothering probably.

It just doesn't pay to worry about it if can just raise the price. The price to fix-up and absorb the damage from a few such incidents is folded into the insurance and current rent price.
Something other than your init system. Not even Apple's launchd has the kinds of idiotic layering violations that systemd is full of.
step 1 quit job
step 2 buy corvette
step 3 drive to reno
step 4 lose it all playing blackjack
WTF is a technologist?
Pullback of complex functions as a logo for the Twitter Math camp
Man Responsible For Olympic Ring Mishap Found Dead In Sochi
If you make someone pay more for the same thing that was worth less before, did you increase the value of the thing or decrease the value of money?
Except for the part where launchd doesn't implement anything other than traditional process/service launch and termination, and doesn't violate the layering boundaries between system components.

In a launchd system, there's absolutely no dependency on launchd by userspace software.
emacs is the one true editor
It's nice to have one (or a few) directory-hierarchies, (such as /usr/local) -- as you then can set LD_LIBRARY_PATH, MAN_PATH and PATH once, and have (most) everything just work. I find that the stuff that "only" needs to be added to path might as well just be symlinked to a "bin"-directory somewhere already in path.

That said, I don't advocate doing things that are more complex than what is actually needed. For me xstow strikes a good balance.
When I've been saying "better" here, I'm using it in the sense of Pareto efficiency - more preferred even by people with different preferences. I'm not imposing a single linear scale along which to rank things.

If you don't think taxation or other government intervention are justified in order to achieve a Pareto improvement that the free market demonstrably cannot achieve on its own, then yeah, talking government with you is a waste of time.
If there was a decent chance of standard internet gore causing PTSD, then it would be an epidemic. Most kids have unfiltered unsupervised access to the internet (particularly now in the era of portable internet connected devices), but they seem to be turning out fine.

I think it is good for kids to see photographs of modern atrocities and war crimes. I wouldn't want them to make the mistake of assuming that is something restricted to fiction and history.

I don't think the "physically ill" feeling is necessary to appreciate the severity or magnitude of those sort of images. In fact, I suspect those sort of feelings cloud the mind and prevent you from taking it all in. An academic appreciation for the horrors of reality is more important that a "gastrointestinal" appreciation.
> VLC is to my knowledge the only average user-oriented program that can end up in such situations

Windows Media Player, Firefox, iTunes, ...

VLC makes it easier (you can boost a quiet song or movie until it fills the OS-defined dynamic range) but a loud song in any other piece of music playing software would have the same effect. Depending on the genres of music you listen to, it's not uncommon to come across songs that have been boosted until they clip.

As for hiding the option in preferences, volume boosting is one of VLC's key value propositions to laypeople (in my experience). Making it undiscoverable would be a disaster. Maybe add a 1-off warning dialog for users on Dell computers?
easy, first build stanford, caltech, ucsb, fairchild, etc...
I stream KCRW since moving out of the area, what are some good SCPR/KPCC programs to stream in your opinion? thanks!