skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> OpenRC isn't really a replacement for sysvinit; rather it bolts on some functionality on top of sysvinit. My understanding is that OpenRC is not an incredibly mature codebase and would have needed a lot of work to come up to feature/stability parity with systemd.

It's not the goal of OpenRC to be a systemd replacement either. In fact, I don't think it's the goal of any init system to be a systemd replacement, except for uselessd (please correct me if I'm wrong).

OpenRC solves some of the bigger problems that systemd solves--namely, reliable process tracking, cleaner init scripts, user-defined targets, parallel service startup/shutdown, etc. Moreover, most of the above features are optional, and the system exposes most of its runtime state through the filesystem instead of DBus (so you can inspect it however you want with whatever tools you want). As an added bonus, it's portable.

It's really a pity that the Debian TC didn't look at it closely back during the init system vote, but to be fair, OpenRC's Debian integration was a work-in-progress at the time (I'm pleased to say it runs without problems on my Debian subnotebook).
No one is making you or anyone else to "feel" anything from this product. Frankly, as one of the stereotypical nerds out there, I'm interested in this product. I know I have no sense of style, pretty much and know there are some ladies out there who do.
> 2) Soda is very refreshing. This is important in warmer climates. If it is 98 degrees outside (37C), an orange Fanta does a much better job of making me feel better than just water

This is entirely psychological, right? What about soda would make it more refreshing physically than water?
Being that this is essentially part of the GNUstep project (of which Greg Casamento is the maintainer), which uses the GPL for all its application-level code, it's not surprising.
You mean going from a pretty gender balanced high school, to a department with a large majority of men? (we were talking about nerds here, and I am talking about things like CS departments, since this is HN.)
Microsoft has dozens of open-source projects[1]. Notably, ASP.NET and the C# compiler are both open-source.

[1]: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/openness/default.aspx#project...
Well, this is cool, but Safari allows for loading basically any file located on the filesystem. For instance, trying file:///etc/passwd results in file found but can not be opened by Safari.

That could be an attack vector.
So, uh, what James Lovelock has been saying for 40 years, then?
Yes and No.

I figure its simple enough to code

select from [input 1] where [input 2] where [input 3]
//I don't actually know SQl so thats likely wrong

But its a bit sloppy for the user to use.

Example:

Naughty America's search system (its a porn site, feel free to judge) actually uses this layout (not with drop down menus mind you). But it presents a field of links, its also 3 levels deep.

The first field is generic category, second is children of that category, so on and so forth.

This system sucks. Its a pain to use and limits how the user can interact with your site. Especially when there is overlap between categories, where a level 2 category might belong to 4-5 different parents, now I have to select each parent category...

I swear this was a solved problem when relational databases were invented in the 70's.
Paying $323,000 to a Group That May Not Exist
This is false.

> "You can imagine that many of us want [Swift] to be open source and part of llvm, but the discussion hasn't happened yet, and won't for some time."

- Chris Lattner, LLVMDev mailing list. http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2014-June/073698....
Could it be that sugar is responsible, but other stuff in fruit juice somehow inhibits it or compensates for it?
Then it's good that Google doesn't really ask logic puzzles. (That link to Google questions is full of fake questions. Just link bait.)
Apple open sources their OS X kernel (Darwin) along with many others things, that's a pretty good record and way more than Microsoft has ever done.

https://opensource.apple.com/
I do it, though I guess I only initially made it worse. I can't go back now, though, since now it is unruly as hell if I don't do something about it.
There's a large gulf between sharing flats and sharing rooms though. Sharing flats is common all over the world for obvious reasons, sharing rooms seems like a good time to question why you're in a certain place.
Yep, I hate stuff like this:

> The fallacies that systemd opponents make have been pointed out so many times that it’s not worth giving a comprehensive overview.

Great, now I have homework to do before I can read your article. I guess I'm just not in the target audience for this article because I haven't been following the debate from the start.
> not have undiluted fruit juices

Why? (with links if you can - thanks)
Flagkilled means enough of your fellow HN users flagged the story as inappropriate for Hacker News that the software killed it.

Presumably the reason they flagged that story is that it is a garden-variety political piece. It should be obvious that those are off-topic here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

The current post is also off-topic. If you have a question like this, please do as the guidelines ask and email hn@ycombinator.com.
Net neutrality and the disruption of television distribution
> That's a very nice slogan.

Yeah, I borrowed it from some Haskell luminary. My search-fu failed me so I didn't source it as I should have. :)
> It's nice to have another datapoint against some of the bro-sciencey "Fruit juice has as much sugar as soda" arguments.

I was under the impression that this expression was used more with regard to dental health
I know a few girls who would love a girl to shop with them.
Lyft, Uber can legally operate at SFO
> No one is making you or anyone else to "feel" anything from this product.

I don’t understand this argument. Of course a narrative which consistently calls clothes shoppers “girls” and non-shoppers “guys” is going to affect the way I feel about my identity.
That assumes you're using submodules or subtree as your versioning mechanism. If you're using vundle/neobundle, does it do the magic of running the bootstrap to download your bundles from the internet?
What issue did you have? Please email info@continuum.io with the information - we would love to know more about your problem and help you resolve it.
Good point, there could indeed be more background info on Annika and her knowledge and experience of (guys) fashion.
> You think the systemd debate is bad?

I think the debate is good and necessary, I don't like any software imposed without a debate.

Yes, I know, I was referencing partly that. Again, my position may be shocking to you: 1) I like change 2) I use a dozen init systems (!), each for a different situation, and I'm interested in keeping it that way.

You'll also be surprised to know that I use varios OSs! Never used ReiserFS, though.
You are wrong and you should declare your weird shilling for the sugar industry.

http://www.child-smile.org.uk/parents-and-carers/birth-to-3-...

> Small amounts of pure, unsweetened fruit juice should be diluted half and half (50% juice to 50% water), or with a greater proportion of water to juice if your child is thirsty.

> Juice should be restricted to mealtimes only in a free-flow cup, not a feeding bottle.
I guess that I am still skeptical of Product Hunt. I don't get the appeal at all, I'm looking to spend money on less things or reduce the complexity in my life.

The other thing that most people seem to dislike about Product Hunt is the exclusivity, which doesn't bother that much. It is an interesting strategy to combat the quality of a site decaying and I curious as to how it turns out.
Personally I really like https://github.com/thoughtbot/rcm. It is simple, and to the point. Using it is straightforward, and it has allowed me to change machines and migrate my dotfiles seamlessly.
Nilekani's appointment itself was undemocratic
Basic Aspects of Squeak and the Smalltalk-80 Programming Language (1998)
While there's some truth in what you're saying, you sort of demonstrate a very common pitfall:

> Tuning parameters is basically a gridsearch. You can bruteforce this. In goes some ranges of parameters, out come the best params found.

This sounds so simple. However, if you just do a bruteforce grid search and call it a day, you're most likely going to overfit your model to the data. This is what I've seen happen when amateurs (for lack of a better word) build ML systems:

(1) You'll get tremendously good accuracies on your training dataset with grid search
(2) Business decisions will be made based on the high accuracy numbers you're seeing (90%? wow! we've got a helluva product here!)
(3) The model will be deployed to production.
(4) Accuracies will be much lower, perhaps 5-10% lower if you're lucky, perhaps a lot more.
(5) Scramble to explain low accuracies, various heuristics put in place, ad-hoc data transforms, retrain models on new data -- all essentially groping in the dark, because now there's a fire and you can't afford the time to learn about model regularization and cross-validation techniques.

And eventually you'll have a patchwork of spaghetti that is perhaps ML, perhaps just heuristics mashed together. So while there's value in being practical, when ML becomes a commodity enough to be in an IT stack, it is likely no longer considered ML.
Cognitive Algorithm: hierarchical search and pattern encoding
> Now, a NFC-based token where I don't have to type anything in, or an iWatch/FitBit/whatever type wearable as a token would be pretty cool.

The YubiKey NEO http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LX8KZZ8 supports NFC, there's a picture of it sitting on top of what appears to be a Nexus 5 on the linked Amazon page. There's nothing stopping Google from making mobile Chrome work with it over NFC.
This paper is from 2007, is it still not fixed?
How to HUMANIZE Your CALL CENTER
“It's a Boy!” How to Broadcast Text Messages Using Google Spreadsheets and Ruby
I wish Indie Phone all the best, but... haven't OpenMoko http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openmoko and Ubuntu Edge http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Edge shown that open source phones just don't fly? I surely wish they did.
It's political theatre, to some extent. The traditional "SysV init" mechanism is there to do things that are slightly above kernel space, but too global to be considered part of userspace; so things like user settings for power management, managing long-running daemon processes, and handling logins could all be part of the init.

The problem motivating a switch is that init is an underpowered solution for the number of things that a distribution is asked to handle these days; it results in a lot of hand-tuned scripts with duplicated effort.

Enter the politics. A lot of the value of a distribution can come down to how its init system has been built, since it means the difference between essential stuff working or not working. Systemd pushes the value and the accountability into a central location by annexing lots of different features that were traditionally just spread out amongst various interdependent scripts. There are a lot of straightforward technical advantages to centralizing some of these things(speed, simplicity of configuration, etc.), but everyone and their dog has an opinion about which things should or shouldn't be annexed, and the form in which it should be done. Many people's jobs are potentially at stake here.

The more conspiracy-minded also view systemd as a power grab from Red Hat. Red Hat's business substantially involves contracts with the military, lending circumstantial evidence to the idea that they are doing deliberate harm to serve state interests - thus everything they do is viewed with some suspicion.
GREAT INFOGRAPHIC: SALESFORCE IS EATING THE SAAS MARKET
can you post a (sanitized) example?
I do, if it will actually save me something. Usually, I don't need anything that actually requires me looking up or constructing a super complicated regular expression.

Per your example, I code in a functional language. I'm even less likely to make a mistake if I just reuse the function, than I am to apply a regex.
This is strange. You just quoted Chris Lattner saying Apple has no intention of making it open-source, but said it makes me wrong. Indeed, he confirmed that it hadn't even been considered at that time.
I think it's the carbonation. When I realized that's the part I really enjoyed, I started drinking seltzer water (and a lot of it, because I didn't get the uncomfortable feeling that sugary soda gave me.)
I don't see any reason to discount the authors, but a couple of things to keep in mind:

1) This is Time's popularization of their study, so Time is naturally going to put forward the most interesting and least nuanced claims of theirs.

2) They may be accomplished researchers, but if you are well-versed in an academic discipline and read material in it, it quickly becomes clear that sometimes points which seem obvious have not actually been accounted for whether by mistake or because they don't allow for interesting publishable material.

Again, I'm not saying that is the case, and my points above are overly cynical, but the original poster's question is valid.
I'm sitting here with an angry-looking bulls-eye from a tick (scapularis) that was attached for less than 12 hours. (It wasn't there when I went to bed and was there when I woke up.)

With a previous infection I was eventually unable to walk without crutches and had such intense jaw pain that I couldn't sleep without a mouth guard. This is a nasty bug and not to be trifled with.
I think it's more nuanced than that. If geolocation is turned off, I don't think they are pulling GPS data anyway. So they are not 'tracking your location regardless of stated preferences' any more than every other site on the internet. They don't track anything that isn't implicit in the functioning of the internet -- i.e. an IP address.

Obviously they store the messages that their users submit to them. Their data retention should be spelled out in their ToS, and it's not clear if they are violating their own policies here. But take, for example, when Google a while back made a very concerted effort to ensure that deleting an email in Gmail actually meant the email would be deleted from all backups system-wide in some reasonably short timeframe (some number of days/weeks). However, prior to this, and in almost all databases worldwide, you will find that clicking 'Delete' doesn't actually remove the item from backups, and backups are kept for quite a long time / indefinitely.

An anonymous post is not necessarily a secret post, they are two different concepts entirely. I've never used Whisper, but when you post something there, I believe it is entirely public. On the face of it, there should be no more an issue sharing a tweet than sharing a whisper. To the following point, I would need to understand what private data they are sharing, not simply that they are featuring specific public posts. If they do feature a post, it makes sense for them to do some due diligence on the veracity of the claims. Honestly, I'm not sure how I feel about them using GeoIP databases as part of that diligence. If someone makes a post to Whisper without using Tor then they have certainly given their IP address away completely willingly, but I'm not sure what restrictions on use of that IP are expected by Whisper, or by any site in general which logs IPs (all of them).

Whisper, very similar to Snapchat, both promise the impossible. If you understand that technically their core feature is not actually possible, you try to understand why do people use it anyway. Either they truly thought they were getting the impossible, or there's value to the platform anyway. With Snapchat, you can see how they are trying to reframe the issue from truly secure ephemerality to simply a user interface which focuses on the present and discards the past. Similarly, Whisper is trying to reframe the issue from truly secure anonymity, to simply a user interface which doesn't include usernames / identity.

Unless you are a trained professional practicing perfect opsec, you are not anonymous on the internet. It's wrong and potentially dangerous that Whisper is making people feel like they are perfectly anonymous, but I almost wonder why anyone on HN would be surprised by any of this? As a cryptographer, I expect every piece of information I submit/leak to be used against me, so given there's literally nothing about Whisper that provides any security whatsoever, my expectation going into it would be that I am getting none. I get that my perspective is completely different from the average user on this.
Swift is a beautiful language but you want to keep it all to yourself.
We don't know that's true or not. AFAIK, Apple has not officially commented on this topic.

Actually, having spoken with Swift team in Apple (rather not mention their names in case they get in trouble) on this topic, they seemed to be happy opening it up in general and opening it up as a general purpose language. Swift could ultimately replace C++ as the language of choice for game development and more.

That said, IMHO, the language will progress a lot faster initially if it's driven by a single master than to be pulled into many directions.
> What I like about programming is not problem solving — it’s design

Apparently in some alternate universe where design is not considered problem solving.
The energy function for a Boltzmann machine is usually E = v^T x W x h, where v are the visible units, W contains the weights, and h represents the hidden units. The form of the energy function defines the activation function of each neuron and the learning rule that goes with it. Now, you can in theory start off with any energy function you like (this form just happens to be the simplest). You would then have to re-derive the activation function and learning rule.

Just what would the energy function look like for real neurons? I don't know but we do know that the activation function would have to "spike" in bursts. So that is a clue. We also have rudimentary ideas about the learning rule used in biological neural networks, so you would also want to take this into account when determining the actual energy function. Finally, real neurons do not send retrograde signals but are instead wired recurrently, which must also be taken into consideration.
" For instance, leaf shape changes with soil water and chemistry. SET views this plasticity as merely fine-tuning, or even noise. The EES sees it as a plausible first step in adaptive evolution."

So the EES model believes these organisms are evolving as they grow to adapt to a changing environment. Am I reading this right? Do any organisms actually have the ability to modify their genetic code as they develop?
Really enjoyed the article and looking forward to more in the series. Would be interested to hear your thoughts on the Patreon.com model (funding ongoing creative work vs kickstarter where it builds up to a big final product like an album release). Also, are there any other crowdfunding models which you feel have big potential that no one has done well yet?
I have the same thoughts. I know folks that are suffering from diabetes, and they drink soda every time I eat with them. And that boggles my mind. It's like they can't bear the taste (or lack thereof) of water. Or they are addicted to soda.

After moving to the U.S, I had more soda than ever before in my life, and that actually made me not like them anymore. Can't drink more than couple sips.
A while back I got very interested in cleaning up my configuration files. I wanted to figure out out a way to store all of the configurations I use across multiple machines into a single repository, while at the same time not having to worry about symlinking and installing configurations for things I don't need on a particular machine.

I looked at a lot of different things like Stow and homeshick and the like and really didn't like any of the solutions. So I ended up writing my own tool.

I've wanted to write up something for it for awhile now and post it around, but I just haven't yet. Anyway, here's my tool: https://github.com/EvanPurkhiser/dots
Please don't put "Show HN" in a title until your work is ready for everybody to try out: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.
It definitely made me cringe, especially compared with something like Trunk Club: https://www.trunkclub.com/. For lack of a better: something about this site--right down to the hero image--makes me feel dirty.

The copy alone seems like it's either written by (or perhaps for?) the stereotypical adolescent male. Selling it as more of a concierge service would really make it more mature.

That said, I'm a "Guy" who actually enjoys shopping for clothes and dressing like an adult, so take my thoughts with a pinch or two.
Unlike most vaccines, there's no herd immunity benefit for humans because the transmission vector are ticks. So to make any headway we have to go after the ticks, and their hosts, the deer and the deer mouse.
It's not even 30 days necessarily. I use 2FA on gmail with "remember this device" checked, and I haven't had to sign in for a year or more.
I genuinely can't understand the thought processes of the nabobs who think the Grauniad acted inappropriately here. My first response was, "Journalism is not the priesthood," and considered it similar to interviewing Frank Underwood on background and not reporting on his history of blackmail and murder. But it's really even simpler than that -- it's as if Nixon went on Meet the Press and started bragging on-air about black-bag jobs to Spivak. Under what journalistic conventions wouldn't you report it out? Certainly makes you wonder what Business Insider isn't reporting.

(By the way, I apologize -- I mis-clicked when upvoting your comment, and had to upvote a few past comments to rectify the error. I posit my poor hand-eye coordination is the result of either too many espressos or not enough; I'll pull a few more shots and report back on the results.)
Only if your identity is affected by every ad you read...have some backbone.

This is a cool thing, for those that need it. No more stereotyped than "I let my spouse buy my clothes because I have no sense of style". Its just a statement, true for some people. Its got nothing at all to do with anybody's identity.
Yeah; I get the objections. More pragmatically, systemd was developed the way that it was, and for a large portion of its life there have been no credible alternatives that were objectively better.

But once systemd's behavior has become standardized, it becomes hard to change implementation details because its dependencies rely on not just what it does, but how it does the things that it does. You have to standardize on something, and it will inevitably be flawed because no system is perfect. Sysvinit is not adequate anymore (and I don't think you would disagree with that). Systemd was a solution that someone came up with, and was able to get a number of influential groups to agree to standardize on that solution.