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I replaced sidux by arch on my personal laptop 5 years ago and I'm looking for a replacement distro for this usage too.

my experience with systemd on my arch laptop isn't one I would say is mature and reliable.
When a service that used to work now fails to start and the only information systemd gives is that it failed to start, I find the only reliable things is that it fails to provide relevant information to allow me to get out of the situation the way I could with logs before systemd.
How Sports Can Be Used in Countering Social Problems
> The author of this piece makes the classic mistake of equating the init system as the process manager and process supervisor.
> To stuff everything in the init system, I'd argue, is bad design.

The author is not making any mistake at all, or no more so than you are.

I'm sure you both value engineering principles like separation of concerns and a single source of truth.

The author believes that by removing the redundancy between initd / xinetd / supervisord / syslog the system is improved.

You disagree, and believe that these are separate concerns.

That's fine, you have different values / judgements in this matter. But saying he's `mistaken` for not agreeing with you is childish.
It doesn't address the logging issue, as far as I can tell. It appears to rely on the same logging solution as the original daemontools. I used daemontools extensively for a while, and it was great, and I like Bernsteins design philosophy which appears to have been largely carried forwards into s6, but it was simplistic, and suffers from a number of the same problems as a "raw" SysV-init, such as putting us back at the mercy of badly written start/stop scripts, and no dependency management.

If someone could come up with a systemd replacement which manages to keep the systemd features while using a design philosophy more in line with that of Daemontools, that would be fantastic, but it'd end up looking very different to s6. Some stuff could certainly be cleanly layered on top (such as using a wrapper to avoid the start/stop problem using the same method of cgroup containment as systemd). Other things, such as explicit or implicit (via socket activation etc.) dependency management, I'm not so how you'd fit into that model easily.

I'd love it if someone tried, though. It would certainly make it easier to experiment with replacing specific subsets of functionality.
It's not so difficult to "infer" structured data from sources like Wikipedia. Dpreview is also an easy example. I don't see any proof the feature is actually about automatic inference, and not about hard-coded rules how to find structured data on some popular sites.
And we're back to a nice clean interface. In the future, the only thing that won't be using a USB type C connector is Apple products. Everything else will have type C connectors and only type C connectors. Your laptop will have 3-4 type C connectors, and won't have anything else, not even power or DiplayPort. Tablets, phones, etc., same thing. Every monitor will become a docking station. Every cable will be identical.

It's not quite utopia, of course. Cheap type-C cables will be a scourge. They'll work great at USB2 speeds, slow down USB3 devices and won't work when plugged into your monitor.
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I could care less that it is now reversible. Yes it was annoying, but having to keep 4++ different cable types, adapters and all is just as annoying.

What bothers me more is the durability of the pins. The contact surface wears out rather quickly, especially on the now prominent micro-USB connectors, leading to unstable, shaky connections.
Xbox One will ship in China this month
Well, not just the seatbelt example but also the feeling of freedom from limited policing and/or limited laws. In the article when Alex claims, "No seat belts in Russia!" I imagine freedom from an over-zealous law system whether from under enforcement or otherwise. Certainly, I'm looking from the outside in and my views on freedom in Russia aren't from a deep knowledge on the subject. And the word "freedom" is probably a poor choice but that's the feeling I get when I see a tank purchased with ease or a home made helicopter taking off.

I'd like to have that same feeling in the US but I'm apprehensive about the implications.
How do you organise your startup?
Geeks have become their own worst enemies
No, one of them being a delusional disorder, which is literally the inability to know what is reality. I think racism is a pretty minor thing to throw at the guy when he literally cannot tell whether it makes sense or not.
We have that in Italy as well: there is a section of the civil code that states your right to chase your domesticated animals, but an other one that singles out bees explicitly.
Curiously, the section about bees comes before the generic one.
For a lot of purposes I agree. Hypertext is one.

But I think one reason 3D hasn't done much is that we're looking at it through a little 2D window. When VR really hits the market I think 3D worlds will be a lot more compelling.
Because they are not very reasonable?

* "dd" isn't reasonable because it violates the "command + movement/region" structure of vi commands. So is "cc" and "yy". None of "c d y" is not a movement or region. Presumably in this editor "_" represents the "whole line" region, which leads to also "c_" and "y_". Much more regular although it does require you to lift your finger one more time.

* "cw" isn't reasonable because "w" as a movement usually means "to the next word", but in "cw" it means "to the end of current word" instead. "ce" is indeed better.

* "r" is actually not bad (indeed "rx" is equivalent to "clx<Esc>", but the former requires 2 keystrokes), but I guess it's because the author rarely uses it.

Anyway the editor is pretty small, it might be easy or even fun to hack it! :)
"Your theory that losing slower would be more sustainable than losing faster is interesting, but do you have any actual evidence for it?"

I think losing weight quickly for a short period of time (4-6 weeks) works very well (e.g. V-Diet). I also think losing weight slowly over the long term (max 1 pound per month) also works well.

I think most people try somewhere in the middle of the two extremes and it just doesn't work. Trying to lose weight quickly for an extended period just doesn't work for all but the most motivated people.

For evidence in support of losing weight slowly and almost effortlessly take a look at the book Mindless Eating. It covers a lot of interesting research.
Built-in Fake Objects vs. Mocking Frameworks
Is the Centennial Light actually superior to the classic light bulb?

The article states that the filament is 8 times thicker -- using 64 times more material -- and only runs at 4 Watts. So to match the standard 100 Watt bulb, you'd need 25 Centennial Lights, for a total of 1600 times more material.

Meanwhile, it's burned for 113 years, about 990 times the standard bulb's 1000 hour lifespan. 990 times better using 1600 times more material; should I be impressed?
at least the patent system should require a working implementation before something can be patented.
If you watch the George Bush segment, it shows the reconstructed video from a different angle (straight-on, eliminating the head movement).
> How would Dr. Stallman have felt if he had gotten his printer driver with a free license but so much code ... that it would've been impossible ... to actually port it and make it run on his system?

While I am not an expert on legal language and how it can be used by lawyers, I believe RMS and the FSF at least attempt to address this in the GPL Version 2 (there is probably a similar requirement in the GPL Version 3, but it is more complicated so I'm not sure which requirement corresponds to this quote form v2):

"The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it."

Code that is so large complex that it is not practical to understand or port wasn't written by a human. Such code is probably a template or macro expansion of the real source, and the "preferred form" would be the pre-expansion source.

This may not cover all ways of obfuscating the code, but "preferred form" is trying to be as inclusive as possible.
Targeting small businesses in the Construction and Real Estate industries?
Hi,

We are a start up in the process of finishing our website and are considering targeting small businesses in the construction and real estate industries. We will provide online bookkeeping services.

Does anybody have any experience of marketing and selling to small businesses in these two industries?

And do you have any advice?

All advice and suggestions will be well received.
Something to consider is that people seek out a particular experience often to offset an existing experience or condition.

Ecstasy use could have been a source of self-medication for the effects of depression in the folks you hung out with, rather than a cause of that depression. Like many self-medicators, they and you may not have recognized the symptoms of depression consciously before using the drug, which could lead to a misconception of cause/effect timing.

But, just a thought, obviously not knowing you or them.
Why It's Time to Usher in the Next Generation of Email
Yup. And good old, fat USB B is still seen on most printers and hard drives.
I found this in the doc/ subdirectory of the repository: http://c9x.me/git/?p=ed.git;a=blob;f=doc/republic.txt;h=366f...

I am really curious about what the full text of Republic is doing here...
Getting started with Graphviz and Python
> lxc, née vserver

Just to be a little pedantic, LXC has definitly be inspired by pre-existing Vserver and OpenVZ. But it's a different implementation.

A lot of things that are viewed as innovations from Docker really already did exist in 2006~2007. Maybe a bit cruder but not that much. OpenVZ was very close to that. AUFS is the only real innovation as far as I know.

Anyway, Docker guys were smart enough to ride the cloud wave and hype the thing. I'm pretty sure Parallels missed the boat because they went the opencore way (OpenVZ/Virtuozzo).
I wonder if this might not be something else.

When you study a language in a classroom, you frequently engage in conversations on various topics, whose sole purpose is to make you practice much more than to actually have a well-thought conversation. As such (and here I speak from my own experience only), it is much more common to defend positions in which you don't actually believe, for the sake of argument or maybe just because it is easier to express than the subtleties you might find while thinking this over in your native language.

I think it may be a good idea to try to only ask bilingual people (as opposed to people studying a language), or at least to test the above hypothesis before jumping to conclusions.
>should I be impressed?

Not really. Run a 100 watt lightbulb dimmed down to the brightness of a 1 watt bulb and it will also likely run for 100 years.
Funny how voting machine companies won't release their source code, but MIT must for Bitcoin? Just a thought.
I was going to post a link to this book, but to my delightment someone beat me to it...

This book is highly recommended if you want to know more about encryption, but are afraid of the mathemathical concepts. It starts of super easy with a simple caesar shift (the kind of secret code children use) and builds from there. I'm a total math noob but thanks to this book I wrote a simple public-key encryption service. The book contains tons of examples and even challenges, if you're up to it.

If you haven't read this book, go on and do so!
Not really, it's a little more complicated as Chipworks described:

http://www.chipworks.com/en/technical-competitive-analysis/r...
Boot time again.

In a server environment it happens that the various DRAC/BIOS(es) are initialized and the bootloader reached is far longer (several minutes sometimes) than the boot time of sysvinit. So optimizing boot time in the Linux part on a server is probably moot for me.

On the laptop you can suspend/hibernate as others have said if you care about startup time. I have full-disk encryption and need to type in password to boot so few seconds more or less doesn't matter anyway.

So that leaves the desktop, where I might care about boot times (the UEFI/BIOS is actually saner than in servers and reaches the bootloader very fast). It turns out that my desktop boots faster than my router with sysvinit already, so having faster boot times on my desktop would get me nowhere, I still wouldn't be able to use the internet until the router has booted.

So faster boot times ... I didn't need all the pain systemd is causing just for that. Debian has haid makefile/startpar based concurrent boot already, I don't think systemd would improve on that much ...

Meanwhile not using systemd breaks things that used to work on a KDE desktop (USB mounting, VPN config, etc.), so having an app support systemd is a net-negative for me.
Why aren't the British middle-classes staging a revolution?
It's even more specious than you think. Red Hat employees are the largest "contributors" to GNOME. It's effectively a Red Hat project.

So, Red Hat project GNOME relies on Red Hat project systemd, and Red Hat employees won't allow systemd to be portable to competing platforms. Convenient.
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It's the EU.

After they have regulated the "curvature quality standards for cucumbers" (this isn't a joke, see http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX...) they needed something new to justify their job, so now they are doing all sorts of "we da internet naoo" regulation, including this cookie madness.
> In a world where entirely realistic body images can be created of anyone, it becomes possible to threaten to "leak nudes" of anyone, even if they've never taken any.

It is also the world where nude photos of anyone have exactly zero value, because everyone who wants them can generate those themselves and there's no easy way to distinguish between real, doctored and fake ones.
The long now of software
"If you’re under 30, the very idea of getting a cold-call from someone besides a close friend or family member seems intrusive, if not borderline odious."

If you're not in my contact list, I do not answer the phone unless previous arrangements have been made. I might listen to the voicemail in a couple minutes, assuming you leave a message. Really old people (white/blue hair) will not leave messages which makes for an interesting protocol breakdown.

I also don't do the ankle bracelet / house arrest thing, so people leave me a message on my phone and their brains explode that it took me 12 hours to notice and respond back. The very concept that I can own and pay for a smartphone but not look at it for half a day is literally unthinkable to them.

Thats the new world.
um... didn't it become the 'last search engine' because it was so successful rather than vice versa?
Azure announces SSD-backed instances
You are missing a beat here. The last mover is the winner of a space. It's kind of like saying I found my car keys in the last place I looked. Of course you did.
Pushing the large man is risky, you can't be 100% sure that it will work, and you can't be absolutely sure that five people will die if you don't do it. So it could be the willingness to take chances rather than the moral judgments.
See if there's a way for you to implement a simple version of the idea without writing any code, and just using a blog or email newsletter.
You use vim outliner plugin for the issues? How does that work?

Are your issues simple text files describing it? In a "issues" folder? Do you enforce a format? How do you track their status?
Skype is not a well crafted product:

- if you send a message to someone offline, and you log off, he will receive it only when both of you will be online and if you use the same device you used when you sent the message. If it was too long ago he might miss it.
- if you use multiple devices with skype, you will have to read all everytime you change device

so even if you've heard of skype, I can get why there's so much hype for a well-crafted product like whatsapp, but for calls.
Sorry for the offtopic but is this wordpress? If so which theme? :)
> what's the last protocol that's gained mass developer/user usage?

XMPP and SIP.

And BTW, Whatsapp is non-federated XMPP. The Twitter protocol is HTTP, its API is documented and clones exist; like Whatsapp it is non-federated.
Sounds fascinating. In fact, it almost sounds too good. My concern is that it seems intimate. There are not many people I want to connect with on an intimate level.
> With Talko, we're always talking about a particular subject, usually with lots of pictures. I can be super engaged if I want to, or I can sit back and just watch it happen. What's awesome is that we all are experiencing it, even the people who miss it.

Sounds like a next-generation WhatsApp. I use WhatsApp mostly asynchronously, and occasionally with group chats with colleagues/friends. At a night out we had a group chat where we sent occasional photos of the night. It was a kind of casual inclusive running commentary.

This sounds like it makes that side of things more useful and accessible. I'm interested to give it a try. :)
Silicon Valley has a talent dilution problem
Beyond Angkor: How lasers revealed a lost city
"I think you can argue that capital gains shouldn't be taxed differently than income at all (not sure what I think of that, honestly), but if carried interest has to be in either the "income" bucket or the "gains" bucket, it looks more like gains to me."

Looks more like income to me - fees paid to people for managing money that they themselves have not put at risk.
I, as an Android user, don't like feeling like a second-class citizen. Make it cross-platform from the get go I say.
Sandia magnetized fusion technique produces significant results
Ask HN: Where can I get the white lable solution for a web to print website?
I am looking for white lable solution for a web to print website (like milkbooks.com and shutterfly.com)specially for the photobooks. I found this http://www.imaxel.com/ from google but didnt get many good results.
From the horrible looking site to his blurry/pixelated photos and the hundreds of links on each of his posts (Not necessarily bad this one), there's definitely something not right with this guy.
Read the book and you'll learn why it's a scam. Only because something is well established, doesn't mean it's morally legal. Your pension funds (and so is mine) are getting screwed big time by HFT.
Its probably for testing purpose. Its a big file of natural text so you can easily checks a lot of things with it and its a lot less boring than pages of lorem ipsum...

But, its funny that it is more than half of the full content in the git clone...
The Carbon Cub, a carbon reinforced Super Cub is exactly what you're talking about I think
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This one might be more accurate: http://www.cheops-pyramide.ch/image/loehner-seilrolle/djehut...

They're obviously pulling the rope, but since the drawings are out of perspective it looks weird.

There are also three water carriers along with the water pouring guy: http://www.thebookofdays.com/months/sept/images/water_carrie...
Why analog? There is audio in the Displayport stream, and there is no reason your screen couldn't hook up a USB DAC as well. Your headphones could go right into your screen, if that's what you want to accomplish.
Want to say two things to you.

1) Absolutely agree.

2) Extra marks for totting up those cross-platform stats. My opinion of Viber went up (even though I'm an open-source head) when I saw that they have a Linux desktop client. Same goes for Skype back in the day.
Uh, no, the difference was actually higher than 10%.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_independence_referendu...
You may not need joins, but someone else May.

Someone else likely Will in my experience. Or I will, when a new requirement comes in.
> you will also need cweb because one file is written in literate programming

Glad to see there is a small village of indomitable programmers still holding out against the invaders :)
Does anyone have insight into the go-to hardware used for these microwave links? I'm curious what vendors are pushing the limits in this space.
I wonder, what do you get over exporting a file system over webdav, if you only do "document storage" of json documents? After all filesystems are made for storing a hierarchy of files... some indexes for searching? More convenient rest api?
I don't understand how you come to the conclusion that putting Xorg in pid 1 would be even a remotely fitting comparison.

For starters, as an example, I have 100 times as many servers than I have desktops to deal with - for a lot of us Xorg is not an important factor. But the process manager is vital to all of them - server and desktop alike if you want to keep them running. If the process manager fails, it doesn't matter if it wasn't Xorg that took things down.

Secondly, that X clients fail if the server fails is not a good argument for moving Xorg into pid 1 too, because it would not solve anything. If pid 1 crashes, you're out of luck - the best case fallback is to try to trigger a reboot.

Having (at least minimal) process management in pid 1 on the other hand serves the specific purpose of always retaining the ability to respawn required services - including X if needed. (Note that it is certainly not necessary to have as complicated respawn capabilities in pid 1 as Systemd does).

Having Xorg in pid 1 would not serve a comparable purpose at all: if it crashes, the process manager can respawn Xorg. If you then need to respawn X clients, and be able to recover from an Xorg crash, there are a number of ways to achieve that which can work fine as long as your process manager survives, including running the clients under a process manager, and have them interface with X via a solution like Xpra, or write an Xlib replacement to do state tracking in the client and allow for reconnects to the X server.

Desktop recoverability is also a lot less important for most people: Every one of our desktops have a human in front of it when it needs to be usable. Most of them are also rebooted regularly in "controlled" ways. Most applications running on them get restarted regularly. People see my usage as a bit weird when I keep my terminals and browsers open for a month or two at a time.

On the other hand, our servers are in separate data centres and need to be availably 24x7, and many have not been rebooted for years, and outside of Android and various embedded systems, this is where you find most Linux installs.

While we can remote reboot or power cycle most of them, with enough machines there is a substantial likelihood of complications if you reboot or shudder power cycle (last time we lost power to a rack, we lost 8 drives when it was restarted. Even with "just" reboots there is a substantial chance of problems that requires manual intervention to get the server functional again (disk checks running into problems; human error the last time something was updated etc.)

That makes it a big deal to increase the odds of the machines being resilient against becoming totally non-responsive.
The scam is what you use the microwave communication for. If you have access to fast lines or even faster radio comms means, that you can rig the market more efficiently.

It's called front running.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Boys
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