skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
getting to a price is about 1% of the sales process, but it's the only thing the customer thinks he wants, so it's used as a gatekeeper.

also, the companies who don't publish pricing do not want people who are interested in just the price. they're usually selling something that has a lot of intangibles like a custom crafted solutions or quality of service. by reducing their entire sales pitch down to a single number, they're devaluing themselves before they even get a chance to pitch their solution. by not even being willing to communicate with a sales person the details of what you want, you immediately disqualify yourself.

in my opinion it should take about 30 minutes to an hour of your time to be able to get a price out of an enterprise product or service (this includes requirements gathering, specifications, etc on the part of the sales person). anything less, and you're not dealing with a serious buyer. usually this is just one phone call and a follow-up email with specs. in our business that's enough to generate a proposal with a $ amount on it.
Tox.im warrant canary not updated?
According to this post https://blog.libtoxcore.so/397/warrant-canary-updated-changes

They state it will be every two weeks. Today is the 22nd.

https://wiki.tox.im/canary.html - doesn't seem updated.

Should we be worried?
Not quite.

I'm saying that systemd makes the Linux kernel's feature set and capabilities visibly usable from user-space. For (nearly) the first time, it feels like it matters that I'm using Linux.

Linux is still Linux without systemd, it just doesn't provide as much benefit (aside from device support and compatibility) over, say, FreeBSD without software that takes advantage of its feature set.
I've seen this before and found it compelling. Partly I was interested as I came up with an experiment to look at static friction with and without water present for a high-school physics project many-many years ago.

However, that schematic appears strongly interpretative. In the original image I can't see any ropes [that could just be a bad photo]. Also if the slaves are pulling the sled to the right, why are half of them looking left?

The posture is all wrong for pulling on ropes, whilst the posture of the single person pouring water is more natural.

Would a single water pourer be enough. If not why wouldn't they have used the "stacked" technique they've used elsewhere to show there were more than one? At least there appear to be suppliers bringing water on yokes.

To me the figures to the right of the sled seem more like they're walking backwards and forwards, perhaps they're compressing the sand, but they don't seem to be pulling. Contrary to that the single figure on the far right appear to be holding a rope over their shoulder, which is weird if everyone else is holding it at waist height.

Lastly, what are all the "soldiers" doing at the top? They seem to be carrying beams or statues or somesuch in the original, quite different to the swords[?] in the schematic interpretation.

It would be nice to see a cleaned up processed image of the wall that perhaps had used some microscopic or other capture methods to ascertain pigment missing in blank areas.

Is there a reference for what the text on the original image says? That seems like it would be pretty pertinent to the point at hand? Would this whole system work on sloped sand?
I agree (in that I wasn't impressed by that project) :) - also trying to find time to build temp/humidity/weight/sound monitoring. Would be interested to hear your thoughts. monsterlemon@gmail.com
This - http://www.amazon.com/Guide-Bees-Honey-Selling-Beekeeping/dp... - is one of the "standard" books, in the UK at least.
See also, the Oxford Electric Bell:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_Electric_Bell
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This is just disgusting; I hope a lot of people see this. Poettering doesn't even have the shame to hide that he doesn't want anyone using a non-systemd GNU/Linux system.
In the future, we are all in porn.
"They Don’t Make ‘Em Like They Used To" Wrong.
The explanation why the bulb still holds is very simple. By turning it off and on again, the tungsten contracts and expands. That is why light bulbs break after a certain amount of time. If you keep the bulb lit or turned off, it won't break. In this case, the bulb was lit with the exception of very few power outages.

Also mentioned in the article: "Katz also adds that the bulb’s age could be, in part, contributed to the fact that it hasn’t been turned off and on a whole lot -- a process which is more exhausting on a bulb than letting it run continuously (the filament needs to reheat itself, much like a car’s engine)."
The article is indeed poor. The actual subpoena and subsequent filings indicate that Tidbit distributed embeddable code in return for an email address and bitcoin wallet, and that New Jersey authorities obtained a copy by the same method. They are concerned that there doesn't appear to be any safeguards against the malicious use of this tool and essentially asked Tidbit to cough up a list of who they had distributed it to.

From New Jersey's point of view, it seems rather as if Tidbit is, or was, in the business of distributing something that could very easily be abused, and whose distribution in NJ is regulated by law - in much the same way that some items in catalogs are marked 'Not for sale in [list of states]' because such items are restricted from sale i those places. For example, I don't think you can sell lock-picking tools to the general public in California, and I imagine that it's illegal to sell ATM skimming devices in many states.
I really identified with your post. And I'm jealous of your courage.

I had a lot of crappy stuff happen when I was younger, and I still struggle with depression and anxiety from it.

I wrote about it once. But anonymously:
http://boingboing.net/2013/01/05/pedagogyofthedepressed.html

I don't think I could succeed, professionally, if I had that kind of thing out there under my real name. And it really hurts, to feel like you have this secret you have to carry around lest people refuse to hire you.

I can't begin imagine what it must be like to also then be part of an underrepresented group. But I admire your bravery.
No mystery at all! Thank you, Facebook, Zynga, and Snapchat!
A neighbour of some of my bees had a Labrador pup that kept trying to catch bees in its mouth. It apparently reacted badly (which became expensive), and didn't learn. Had to move the hives in the end.
Startups can pool together to fight these guys. My company, Life360 got sued after raising $50m. They thought this meant we had money to write checks from, but instead we decided to use it to fight.

We're basically being sued for allowing you to click a marker on a map initiating a phone call.

This obviously should never have been patented, so we are doing all the legal defense work and sharing it with the startup community.

See www.stopagis.com if you want to see how we really pissed off our troll.

And public shaming also works, the CEO of our troll didn't own his domain, so we bought it and drive traffic to the site whenever people search for his name (Malcolm Beyer www.malcolmbeyer.com). They don't like that we "aren't playing by the rules".
Let me see if I get this straight. If I design a front door that can't be broken down, which also comes with a lock that can't be picked, it's my responsibility to keep a duplicate of every key, just in case law enforcement should come by and want to get into someone's home?
Which is why I never said it was that categorically so why the strawman?

But you know being a designer having worked with designers, having had a large design agency and done some work for Adobe I do consider myself fairly informed on the matter.

Whether you wanted to consider it a web IDE is besides the point. I remember the days when notepad was considered the gold standard.

If it helps you get the work done who care about what it was supposed to help them with.
About hiring programmers and Asperger’s syndrome
It's more than that. This is an exact example of someone not understanding context, not using tools available to understand context, and then projecting their thoughts and beliefs onto someone else, all while completely avoidable.

If you have the means to read the comment on the internet, you also have the means to search that phrase or set of words and immediately see it's connected to a Pink Floyd song.

Even if you don't do the search, you're still projecting yourself onto their words.

"Crazy diamond" ... what makes a diamond a 'typical' diamond? Sharp/precise, clear, focused. Now let's look at 'crazy' - typically means extremely far beyond the average/normal point. Literally 'off the charts' but in this context, mentally off the charts. To be in possession of such qualities so strong that we can't even think about how possible that is, but here we have something that demonstrates that. A person that wrote their own hobbyist kernel and OS.

Is that easy to do? Show me your custom kernel & OS. Oh, don't have one? Then how many people do you personally know that have pretty much single handedly done that? Probably not that many. So you don't have a primary or secondary sources that you can speak to the dedication and depth of effort for this this task/accomplishment.

It removes power from the one actually being discussed as to encourage others to speak on the individuals' behalf, thus less emphasis and power on their own self-representation and more importantly, their own voice.

I think it is a perfect description: someone who is so clear and focused in their passion and pursuit of it to the extent that we can not comprehend the effort to achieve what he single handedly did, and the clear focused and beautiful nature of what they've created, straddling between pure effort and pure art. I think it's a very humanizing thing to show that mental illness is not inherently dangerous and not inherently bad and that those either showing signs or suffering are people first and foremost, and we should listen to what they have to say, not voices that claim to represent them.
Advertising isn't random or independent of the signal - it's systematic bias.
+1 This is exactly how I understood it to work...
"has been proclaimed the “Eternal Light” by General Electric experts and physicists around the world."

What experts and physicists?
What stopped you from using Linux-specific features before systemd? They were accessible from userspace well before systemd came along.
No GitHub? No Bitbucket? Just a source code dump? Weird!
How do you determine where the lines between under and over engineering are?
I imagine a spectrum that goes from under-engineering(0) to right-engineering(5) to over-engineering(10), and I imagine the same situation falls on different parts of that line for different people!

So I want to know how you determine what 'right-engineering' is, and how you cope with co-existing with under-engineers and over-engineers on your team.

Thanks!
Iridium’s next-gen satellite network will search for missing planes at no charge
The biggest problem with dropping the syslog protocol altogether is that there's a huge amount of other stuff that speaks syslog. Things like networking gear use it for the same purposes as a normal *nix box, and getting them to switch is going to be like pulling teeth. With your particular case, I'd say you should look at rsyslog and/or syslog-ng. Both of them have backends that talk with actual databases, so you can have all your tools readily available, and can additionally dump to plain text and/or email messages at the same time. As to the why for journald, it seems very much like the rest of Poettering's MO of NIH. He doesn't seem too capable of working with other project makers to get his goals handled, so just does everything himself, to the detriment of the overall community.
Sad, wish they made it.
Baidu is trying to speed up image search using FPGAs
For the visual folk

Engineering:

[under(0) -> right(5) -> over(10)]
I did not "literally" copy and paste the article from either source. I did use Ars Technica's information for the basis of my article. I've also added my personal commentary on the matter.
> Opaque C code that sits in 20 binaries and some man pages don't help you a lot if have to debug an issue. It's okay from a user perspective but with systemd (or other systems that rely on in this principle) you need to start reading c-code, start gdb, deal with dbus... if it's a toolbox of scripts a `grep -r <error>` is often the first step on the way to understand and learn something and fix the problem.

What's opaque about Free and Open Source C code?

Some might argue (this guy included) that statically typed, statically analyzed C code will result in fewer people having to debug their system code than the equivalent code written in a particular variant of shell code.
If you try to go extreme on all possible requirements simultaneously, the chance of failure approaches one hundred percent. The key to success is to pick one or two areas where you want to go beyond state-of-the-art, while staying within it in other areas.

I strongly recommend deleting the requirement about seamless visualization across servers. Of all the items on the list, that strikes me as adding the most difficulty for the least value.
Did you read the complaint?

"The facts indicate that the basket option structures examined in this investigation were devised by sophisticated financial firms to allow clients to circumvent federal taxes and leverage limits. The structures rested on two fictions. The first was that the bank, rather than the hedge fund, owned the assets being traded in the designated option accounts, even though the hedge fund bought and sold the assets, was exposed to all significant risks and rewards, and profited from the trading, with little input from the bank serving as the nominal owner of the assets. In
effect, the structure purported to enable the hedge fund to purchase an “option” on its own trading activity, an arrangement that makes no economic sense outside of an effort to bypass federal taxes and leverage limits. The second fiction was that the profits from the trades controlled by the hedge fund could be treated as long-term capital gains, even for trades lasting seconds. That fiction depended upon the hedge fund claiming that the profits came from exercising the “option” rather than from executing the underlying trades. In fact, the “option” functioned as little more than a fictional derivative, permitting the hedge fund to cast short-term capital gains as long-term gains and authorizing financing at levels otherwise legally barred for a customer’s U.S. brokerage account."

So the complaint is that this was fictional derivatives used to mask ownership of the underlying assets and thereby avoid taxes. I'm going to do some more research but it does sound shady.

Earlier, the complaint points out that the IRS has already identified this as abusive behavior but has not acted:

"While that type of option product was identified as abusive in a public memorandum by the Internal Revenue Service
(IRS) in 2010, taxes have yet to be collected on many of the basket option transactions and its use to circumvent federal leverage limits has yet to be analyzed or halted."
The Vulgar Mechanic and His Magical Oven
Exactly my thoughs, too! When you clone and make blindly, it's not any safer.
See: http://www.displaymate.com/Smartphone_ShootOut_3.htm. At the same brightness level (Anandtech uses 150 or 200 nits I think), the FHD displays use only 15% more power than the iPhone display despite almost 3x the pixels. And total display power is probably about half the power budget.
14 yr old boy, diagnosed with autism, works on his own theory of relativity
It seems highly disturbing to me how much push he seems to have obtained by writing what have in my experience been complicated and crash-prone tools. Especially when such tools seem essentially in direct conflict with system philosophy.

I'm just glad there are sane options available still.
OK, and how do you format the data you send across, or find out which functions the daemon supports and trigger them?
To answer your question, Chinese characters still represent SPEECH (not ideas or abstract concepts) and do so in a way that is specific to the particular Chinese (Sinitic) language that one speaks. The long story about this can be found in the books The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy[1] or Visible Speech: The Diverse Oneness of Writing Systems[2] by the late John DeFrancis or the book Ideogram: Chinese Characters and the Myth of Disembodied Meaning[3] by J. Marshall Unger. The book Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention[4] by Stanislas Dehaene is a very good book about reading in general, and has a good cross-cultural perspective.

I'll give an example here of how Chinese characters reflect speech more than they reflect meaning-as-such. Many more examples are possible. How you might write the conversation

"Does he know how to speak Mandarin?

"No, he doesn't."

他會說普通話嗎？

他不會。

in Modern Standard Chinese characters contrasts with how you would write

"Does he know how to speak Cantonese?

"No, he doesn't."

佢識唔識講廣東話？

佢唔識。

in the Chinese characters used to write Cantonese. As will readily appear even to readers who don't know Chinese characters, many more words than "Mandarin" and "Cantonese" differ between those sentences in Chinese characters.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Chinese-Language-Fantasy-John-DeFranci...

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Visible-Speech-Asian-Interactions-Comp...

[3] http://www.amazon.com/Ideogram-Chinese-Characters-Disembodie...

[4] http://readinginthebrain.pagesperso-orange.fr/intro.htm
The don't solve race conditions in peers trying to locate each other (surprisingly difficult). They don't solve a standardized marshaling format. They don't come with an implementation to integrate with main loops for event polling. They don't handle authentication (well, sort of). They have an inherent vulnerability in FD passing where you can cause the peer to lock up. You can get into deadlock situations in your messaging code if you aren't really careful about message sizes and when you order poll in/poll out. They aren't introspect-able to see what the peer supports. They make it super easy to not maintain ABI.

I could go on.
What do you mean by implicit vs explicit?
> What's opaque about Free and Open Source C code?

Everything if you are sysadmin/developer trying to fix an issue. At first you need debugging symbols to pinpoint the problem, then you need to read the source.. it all takes time. E.g. you need to learn about dbus-monitor and dbus calls and need to grasp some internal concepts of systemd if something goes wrong. It takes time and patience you usally don't have or don't want to spend on such details. For comparison i.e. FreeBSD rc is only shell-scripts: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?rc(8)

I don't want to say that one is better than the other but the latter is for most folks far easier to debug and modify than the first. However as I've said it only really matters for few people. But I can understand that they are not particularly happy about this new complexity. And bugs happen.
Not so much; it's operating far under the level of light it could put out and at atrocious efficiency. As said in the article: "Modern bulbs, she explains, use thinner tungsten filaments that put out more light (40 to 200 watts) burn hotter, and are therefore taxed more rigorously than older bulbs like the Shelby"

With semiconductors, the rule of thumb is an increase of 10 Kelvin halves the lifetime of the part. Considering this bulb is running several hundred Kelvin below modern bulbs, it isn't surprising it lasts. Run a modern 60W lightbulb at 30Vac and it'll last just as long too, but put out so little light as to be near useless (like this bulb).
I am bipolar. Right now I am in a fluctuating depressive episode I am trying with my several drugs to escape without, and this is tricky, without flying into mania. Usually I am on top of this - happily married, good job, good life, haven't been psychotic in many years. Episodes generally minor in depth or elevation, brief, and few and far between.

But right now I am not on point and it's affecting my job, and my perception of how good it is and possibly a major decision I might make under the influence, if you will, of too little or too much serotonin, whether or not to jump ship in pursuit of greener pastures or some strong paranoia that I will be fired or that my team's project will get canned.

I am disengaged, not enjoying it, disengaged socially from my team, I am way behind in my email (work and personal), I ducked out at 2pm today to go lie in bed, I am unsure if I am dissatisfied because I have good reason to be or if my perception is distorted by the depression.

My Zoloft kicked in last week and I felt as though I had the best and most productive two days in a row, following two sick days I felt compelled to take. So another challenge is to figure out whether my suddenly improved impression of my job was distorted by hypomania. Bipolars need to be careful with SSRIs, but a calculated risk for me now.

Bipolar is dangerous to disclose. But I fear I may be testing my boss's patience and disclosure would buy me latitude but I'd only do that concealing that I am struggling with manic depression, rather just garden variety depression. Or with levity, that I have a tummy ache, but in my mind.

I guess I'll try to correct myself medically and keep my mouth shut, and consider having this in my back pocket if I leave early one too many times. Though my boss and team are smart people, and many people have some familiarity with mental illness, so my money's on his already knowing I have a few screws loose. Which might be why he didn't inquire about the nature of my sudden illness, instead being quite accomodating even on my request for second day. I'm grateful for that, though I can't help but read into that.

One thing I envy about gays, in addition to their charisma and fashion sense, is how much less trapped in their closet than I am in mine (or so I suspect). Gays don't have a reputation for going postal. People fear bipolar folks even if they are "high functioning" and treated enough to blend in. I guess I would too in their shoes.

Wow that was long, sorry, but my sudden loquaciousness is a sign I may be escaping my depressive episode in this therapeutic comment box. Thanks, Hacker News! ;)
Google once again takes information from your web page and puts it on their search results page. How will this affect click-throughs? I can see how it might help with traffic sent from SERPS as your site might seem more authoritative.
Classic sysvinit or BSD-style init doesn't rely upon this sort of functionality at all. Just some simple scripts. No need to complicate it any further. A few signals are all that are needed.
WTF is happening? 3d projection mapping at JSConf
See

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

my reply to another participant in this thread. Chinese characters (called "Kanji" in Japanese) are very much writing out of spoken words, and not at all what was described in the article kindly submitted to open this thread. Another participant provided the definitive answer about what is going on in the report submitted here. In all human communication systems, there is recombination of basic symbols, because there has to be.
There's too much overhead to package and maintain small shell tools as native packages. Plus, who wants their repository list to be growing infinitely with PPAs that usually tell little about themselves. Major distros other than Ubuntu are not any better.
vishalchandra- I'm super basic for now, thanks so much for the link!
There are some similarities. The big differences: Appbase is a graph API (similar to Neo4j), all your data is indexed and searchable instantly.
Some times simpler is better ...
After it reminds me that life doesn't have the same value in russia.

And as a french thanks they have this kind of abnegation :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquidator_%28Chernobyl%29