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Okay, correction/clarification: it requires everyone to rewrite their code if they want to use kdbus rather than doing old-style dbus calls to the compatibility daemon, which may not be installed by default and is a fairly ugly hack that's probably going away in the future. It needs a bunch of special support code in systemd that's not used for anything else, and the generall expectation seems to be it's a stopgap and most or all dbus consumers will move to kdbus.

Also, technically developers don't have to use systemd's dbus library; apparently Gnome's doing direct calls to the kdbus kernel API instead. That makes it even harder to support systems that don't have kdbus+systemd, of course, but this is Gnome we're talking about.
I hope the author of Edit is reading this thread. This sounds like a dream come true! The best form of encouragement is people using the software, but if the author wants us to wait, I'm cool with that - but I hope they make real progress quickly!

Now I have the itch to fire up and work in Acme again :)
Also you can get a 50% discount as an early adopter when using the code mlwilken
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i do have a github, but i don't think i would call it "good": https://github.com/mmcru?tab=repositories

i can definitely improve it, and that is something i have been working on. thanks for the advice though; i really appreciate it. i agree with you that ideally i would be working under some more senior programmers to improve my skills.
Reading TCP/IP Illustrated won't teach you how to configure BGP prefix filtering regexes on a Cisco router, but the background sure is helpful. Harris is similarly helpful (and in a bunch of weird ways, similarly constructed and written) for understanding financial technology. I do software security consulting for large financial technology companies, and if you ever want to get one of their developers head's nodding, mention an example from Harris.

It's weird that more nerds on HN haven't read it. It's a great book, and it's great in a very nerdy, systems-y way.
Even after reading the paper, I'm not convinced of their hypothesis that the "phonological level of structure has not yet emerged", though the language surely sounds unusual and interesting. They concentrate on variation within words having the same meaning, rather than on differences in form between words with different meanings. They claim that no minimal pairs can be found; but how could there be no closeness in form between any words, when you have a rich vocabulary with words like "lemon" and "scorpion" as they mention? Some word pairs must be closer than others, and so how are they distinguished? Maybe the problem is that they only studied 150 words?

They note that "the three sign languages whose phonologies have been most extensively studied (ASL, ISL, and SLN—Sign Language of the Netherlands) all have minimal pairs distinguished by features belonging to these categories [hand configuration, location, and movement]," and these generalizations seem to shape much of their analysis. I know they have to start from somewhere, but is this the right way for non-native users to study a new language with a potentially unusual phonology? A sample of three well-studied languages, two of which are presumably very familiar to or native languages of the investigators, seems insufficient for generalizing about potential variation. What does the phonology of other "young" sign languages look like? Were any native ABSL users enlisted in searching for contrasting features and minimal pairs?

I'm still very curious about their question of how phonological structure arises in new languages. I don't doubt that ABSL's phonological structure may be increasing in complexity and regularity, but I'm not convinced that it has no phonology at all.
Let me save us all a giant subthread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7531429
You most certainly can. Just sit yourself down and calmly explain to yourself that, while this working arrangement has been mutually beneficial in the past, it's clear that it's not working out any more and that it's time to part ways.
"Ha! This will confuse the cr*p out of the buggers who try to figure how we did it."
I have been using this platform for a few months and suggested it to all my following. I find it a joke a are closing. I know that may seem harsh but the reality is you have had 4 years to get together a marketing/business plan and make this work. 4 years to setup strategic alliances with key and complimenting services/companies and yet here we are.

I can sum this up quickly, key players in the company (I know they only mention 2 on the about us page) lost interest and now its hurry up and shut down.

What the founders are failing to see is people remember these things and this un-thought out idea will haunt them for a long time. I personally have put them on my do not do business with list.

As for the tool itself, its uber easy to duplicate this so I will be making my own internal tool for myself and clients/students.
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Democracy also works as a system (evidence: Norway is footing the bill), and that is what Liberia is lacking.
I would say depending on what you're looking at they're complimentary. NR can give you some really in-depth timing information such as how much time is spent in the DB versus garbage collection on a certain request. The metrics here are very high level, response time, memory usage, CPU load, etc. New Relic doesn't have the ability to be as precise with its system resource measurements inside of the Dyno so they're both very useful.
Enforcement will be an issue. But I like the idea. Hopefully it does not lead to unintended consequences.
Consider too that a lot of aerospace stuff is done in collaboration with other countries. No one wants to be converting vyorsts to hogsheads all the time.
Sounds neat, and the device itself is reasonably priced ($99 for the next 30 days). $14/GiB isn't a steal, though. There are better-priced data plans out there (T-Mobile has a 11GiB plan for $70, for instance).
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Where is that quote from?

It seems to me that the only way to hit the 90% target would be to include 270kg of dead-weight tungsten, and fit all the science into a 30kg budget.
I find it interesting that the list of supported languages doesn't include Java, which is one of the most, if not the most, requested language - at least in the enterprise space.
OK, maybe not, but according to wikipedia's page on him:

> Extra-biblical traditions associating him with the Tower of Babel led to his reputation as a king who was rebellious against God.
I'm confused. Is there a tutorial or book that explains all the (modern) Javascript software design concepts mentioned in this readme?
Near the bottom of the Atlantic article is a link to this piece by Simon Singh on the British work:
http://cryptome.org/ukpk-alt.htm Well worth a read.
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Except it's not even Henry Ford. Prior to 2000 it was never attributed to Ford. (from your link: "There is no evidence that Ford ever said this. It only began being attributed to Ford in the early 2000s. Earlier versions of the quote have nothing to do with Ford.[1]")

[1] - http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/07/28/ford-faster-horse
also [2] - http://blogs.hbr.org/2011/08/henry-ford-never-said-the-fast/
that's really unusual for Russians. Cuba has plenty of peninsulas waiting be annexed... :)
>Balance mass should perform some type of scientific or technological function

So that's 661 lbs. I wonder how far we are from a solar powered 3D printer. Can we build a self-replicating robot of any kind that would work on Mars? What practical raw materials could a machine tap, if any? Imagine this platform being used to test off-planet manufacturing. Even on a small scale it would be pretty impressive.

Didn't the Mars society have a proposal for a low cost Mars mission with automated missions flown before-hand performing some kind of fuel extraction from Mars (hydrogen?) So that when humans landed, they'd tap these reservoirs of fuel instead of paying all this money to fly fuel with them. Even a small scale test of that would be a game-changer.

If that's too lofty, get 50 colleges to make mini robots/sensor/whatever with a 6lbs limit, kind of like we do with CubeSats today. That leaves NASA ~350lbs for a lander to safely drop these things. Having just one single winner seems a little short-sighted. I'd rather see lots of people given the chance to drop something on Mars than just one group.
The books cited in my earlier reply,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8353518

by authors who know quite a lot about Japanese, dispute this claim. Most Chinese characters used in Japanese are borrowed written forms used for the loanwords in Sino-Japanese vocabulary.
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Yeah, I think we all know why the double fork model exists. It turns out, if fork a daemon from a different process than your login shell, you don't have a problem and you can more reliably track the process...
To both parent and GP:

Please don't comment on HN like you would on Reddit. If you don't have questions or information to add to the thread, you should probably use that as a cue to refrain from posting.

Joke posts might not seem bad, but in aggregate they lower the signal to noise ratio we have come to appreciate about HN. Additionally, once these kinds of jocular posts start, it becomes infectious.

I'm not trying to be mean; I'm guilty of making posts like this too. Many of us simply do not want to see HN devolve into the equivalent of a spammy subreddit. It's important that we all remind each other of the value of this community so that we can protect it from spiraling into a bad state.
Flattered by the shoutout. Atlassian's model is most definitely focused on empowering customer self-service (and probably a strong counterpoint to the a16z piece). We do believe software can sell itself, and I think there are dozens of examples of other companies that do as well, from Basecamp to Expensify. But we also enter and expand via teams. If we were dependent on selling initially to the whole enterprise, our model probably wouldn't work.

Talk I gave on our model here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU1AWD_fue8
?? I am saying it's being used for other things than photo-editing how is that a limited perspective?
Probably an engineer. After all, architects design buildings but, usually, they have nothing to do with the calculations and construction methods employed to build their design.
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I just took a look - I noticed you've got a couple of websites in your list of repositories. Why not host some of these on a personal website?

Also, adding a README could help people understand what the scope and goal of each project is (and also help them figure out how to use it/test it).
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not a bad idea! "keep it simple, stupid"
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You should have a github account if you are learning to program. In my experience interviewers expect it.
What if instead of taking down the Indians Behind Glass, we created more modern scenes behind glass? Like a UN general assembly, or Oktoberfest, or a military base in Afghanistan? That would be super cool.
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Logging into innocentive lets you see more details about each challenge.

EDIT: To your second point: Even though it's 300 kg total, it looks like that's allocated to 2 75 kg objects and 6 25 kg objects. I would assume that means much less weight/space per unit to work with, given the dead weight to go along with it.
So basically the horror you're campaigning against would be... change that provides full backward compatibility?
"Significant savings. Scaling a 960 pixel image that is 79KB is size to 240 pixels wide yields a 86% size reduction, to 480 pixels is a 58% size reduction, to 720 pixels is at 23% size reduction."

I think the reduction is more if we consider that a 240 px image is 1/16 of a 960 px image or 480 px image is 1/4 of 960 px image.
Would love to hear a little more on this, do you mind reaching out craig at heroku.com
Unfortunately I don't have any, but it was truly a sight to behold. There were power strips chained 2 or 3 levels deep just to get enough spots to plug in all the bricks.
So far I love the new DX, I've been using the beta for a while now. It's a significantly improved UX overall.

On an unrelated note, I think it's time to retire the 1X tier, or just make that the free tier and bring the price of 2X in line with 1X. You just can't do all that much with 512MB of ram and given the progression of technology this doesn't seem like a huge ask.

Also in the interest of security I can't think of any reason why encryption-at-rest should be available on the standard database tier.

But then maybe I'm just cheap.
Systems which do not use systemd simply do not have these problems because there is no analogous component. If syslogd goes down, the worst that happens is you don't get logs. Init doesn't go down because it essentially has no inputs. Individual services can go down if they're poorly written, but they won't bring the system down with them. Traditional systems (the hideousness that is "sysvinit") have plenty of other different problems (e.g. race conditions in process supervision), but deadlock or bringing down the whole system is not one of them.

With systemd on the other hand, all of the components under the systemd banner are tightly interconnected and communicating. In particular pid 1 has ongoing communication with multiple other components, and misbehavior from them can, both in theory and in practice, deadlock the whole system. In case you missed it, this is roughly what "monolithic architecture" means: even though the components are modular, they're designed for use in a tightly interwoven manner that's fragile. It's completely the opposite type of "monolithic" from the kernel, which has everything running in one address space, but with architectural modularity, where interdependency between components is kept fairly low.
It would probably be pretty easy to create a tutorial that gets someone to set up a github account, introduces the basics of git/html/css/javascript, and ends up with the tutee having a Github Page that demonstrates what they've done exposed to the world on the internet. Include the DNS setup via cloudflare if they want to buy their own domain.

Are there not tutorials like that?

And then there would be next steps, using free tiers of online services to add a backend etc. There's quite a lot of places to go from there though. What would be best?
If I were the UK government, I would have paid for a last minute "YES" poll : Just to jolt the NO voters into going to vote (because otherwise, they may have not bothered, seeing that the polls were all pointing their way anyway).
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It would make more sense to have such dioramas in a museum of human history, but I understand dioramas of indigenous people who still exist today not having a place in a natural history museum.
> The most expensive rare earth element you can currently send to Mars is platinum (...)

> All other things you could send either decay quickly (platinum) (...)

I don't understand. Did you mean platinum in both places? In that case, I got confused by the "other". Or did you mean something other than platinum in one of the cases? Or am I just failing to comprehend? :)
yes, thanks :)
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I wasn't talking about systemd, in particular. I was using a hypothetical example to counter the OP's point. That said, systemd's main.c still does have significantly more baggage than most other systems I've seen (never looked into Solaris SMF internals, for instance).
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The fraction is 0.00021. The percentage is 0.021%. Still small though.
Good but the title had nothing to do with the content (no mentions of jobs or employability)
I have not heard of anyone intentionally interfering with microwave links, but generally speaking these RF lines are not reliable and you get gaps from time to time due to weather and whatnot. There are a couple of ways to deal with this. In the market data case, the data only flows in one direction and usually consists of sequenced messages, so you just send the data down both the microwave and a fiber path simultaneously. You can do simple line arbitration (throw away duplicates) at the receiving end.
Is there any sort of engineering anywhere that is not done in SI units nowadays?
Hmm, maybe use something like a fractal algorithm? At least Mondrian is about the disposition of weights and space as it may be found in natural grown structures, like trees ...
This looks really nice. I'm actually really happy to see the json editor, been thinking about including something along those lines for debugging/interactive discovery in my react apps.

One thing I'm a little confused about is the onChange method. Is that supposed to be like Om's transact? If so, that seems like an unfortunate name. onChange sounds like a callback, not a way to create a new state.
I love combining art and science like this. Here is an article that has a video about the project - http://news.byu.edu/archive13-nov-origami.aspx
> have the same people evaluate similar situations in a foreign and their native tongues

Also does not work. You'll prime the test subject, and bias them.
They aren't just arrogantly trying to help an African nation, they have an interest in trying to preserve the rainforest and its biodiversity. It's quid pro quo.
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Some more info on how Adblock Plus is trying to fix the issue: https://adblockplus.org/blog/on-the-adblock-plus-memory-cons...
People actually _want_ the logging behavior of systemd? My impression is that it's the most widely hated part; I've heard endless stories of journald thrashing the filesystem forever, losing logs completely on corruption, etc. And even operating properly, its performance is comparable to grepping a flat text log, since despite having a "more efficient" format, it increased the actual data size by something like 4-10x.

Logs are essentially write-once, write-often, read-rarely data. As such, the optimal format is always going to be a flat, append-only file.
Please don't tell others how to post. It's patronizing. There's a voting system you can use to express your concern.
> but "they can't be bothered to launch into the same long conversation in response to basically the same comment" is another.

Several have tried to do just that, saying, for example, that I am wrong and that voting constitutes science, or that control groups aren't essential to serious human studies. While simultaneously downvoting, of course.

> For the record, I'm not entirely unsympathetic to your position though I think some of your arguments are not well founded, and I downvoted this comment and its parent.

You are aware, are you not, that your being in disagreement with a legitimate viewpoint is not a valid reason to downvote, yes? That a post should contribute nothing to the conversation, or otherwise be egregiously at fault to deserve that remedy?

As to my views being "not well founded", if that were true, because I state my views so clearly it should be possible -- not to say easy -- to persuasively argue against them, demolish them with logic, by taking the high road. No one can do that, and no one has done that.

http://arachnoid.com/science_of_mind
Incumbents could easily copy your UX, if it proved to be a competitive advantage
If anyone is curious, it looks like it was the fault of Lockheed. NASA's contract specified SI units: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter
Prediction: money will be paid, cutting down trees will continue
You cannot assume that /bin/sh always refers to Bash. There's a lot more to Unix than just Linux and Mac OS X. On FreeBSD /bin/sh is a 1989 rewrite of the SVR4 Bourne shell. As of 10.0-RELEASE it comes to 21167 lines, including its Makefile, ancillary shell scripts, and documentation.
My start up has been running just the free tier for almost two years. Simple Rails app, running Unicorn and 4-5 workers.
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Since you don't have a background in software, I would suggest specializing in the language/framework/utility of the day - something like Angular, React, etc. You will have a leg up on the vast majority of developers (the ones who don't read HN).

I work for a small startup in the NYC metro area and of course I agree with the parent post. We have a fairly terrible interviewing process. Candidates are phone screened by our non-technical manager and are usually selected for interviews based on domain experience. Nearly all of the people I'm forced to interview have the same background (bachelors in India, sole language is Java, 5-20 years experience in finance industry most coming from big banks Citigroup, BoA, etc). My interview process consists of an onsite coding problem, which is of course controversial. But when none of the people you interview have a github account (some have not even heard of github) or have any sample work, I believe it's important. The vast majority of the candidates sadly cannot create a List and populate it with integers in their language of choice.
Cryptocurrency stuff might be needlessly complex for a reward mechanism.

Just put a secret on the weight (stamp it on the tungsten or something) and promise the one who reads it some sum that was deposited on a bank account before launch.

It should survive entry and impact.
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There are easier ways to annoy HFT: "Every day for up to ten minutes near the London Stock Exchange, someone blocks signals from the global positioning system (GPS) network of satellites ... timestamps on trades made in financial institutions can be affected. "
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BI has been used and deployed for over 20 years now, but the truth is: there are very organisations that are really getting the most out of this technology.

I think there's a key word missing in that sentence...
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Nothing frustrates me more than opening a link to a news article or some other text-based medium, seeing all of the text render normally, and then getting redirected to a page telling me to enable Javascript.
Did you read the article? It's not just a lump sum cash payment for a promise. A couple of relevant quotes from the article:

> Under the terms of the agreement, Norway will help Liberia to initially build up the capacity to monitor and police the forests.

> Liberia will refrain from issuing any new logging concessions until all existing ones have been reviewed by an independent body.

> Ultimately the Norwegians will pay for results, with independent verification that trees remain standing.
Wouldn't closer competition be something like GIMP?
>> "From a scientific standpoint, we cannot say whether these movements were causes or effects."

> The causation is usually quite clear

Not in a scientific sense, not at all. Your post objects to positions I didn't take. My only point is that most of these movements took place when they did because they had become historical inevitabilities, not that the movements themselves had no real effect, which no one can confirm nor deny.