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My understanding is that the core of german industry is the mid-size manufacturers, not the multi-national megacorps. Fortune-50 type companies are in a class of their own.

I love South Carolina, but it seems like a particularly lousy place to be an industrial worker to me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_store
I didn't downvote you, but your post was seriously crippled by the tablet spelling mistakes (especially replacing lie for like).

If you can, I encourage you to edit it.

Edit: also, your argument adscribing the "Orwellian" adjective to the previous post is very strong and can generate negative reactions (like a downvote).
Check out the volume of negative comments...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_choice
Users will switch over when their distro starts using it by default, the same as they would for a new version of the kernel , a new init system or any other lower level software.

The fact is that the design of X is archaic and not well designed for the needs of the modern era. The benefit to end users is that rich multimedia software becomes much easier to develop for Linux so they get more of it.
Have two machines (A & B) send UDP packets to a third machine (C). Give them all the same networking hardware, e.g. 1 Gb/sec NICs. Have A & B send at full speed, so a total of 2 Gb headed to C every second, which can only receive 1 Gb. You'll get a lot of dropped packets.
I've had this same problem on more than one Macbook at work.
I am interviewed in this article and have been a close observer of the situation in Honduras since 2011. Many of the concerns raised in this piece are legitimate.

However, Paul Romer's involvement and renunciation do not indicate what people think it does. Romer was also behaving badly just as the government has been. It was sort of a mutually-destructive power struggle that, sadly, hurt the people of Honduras most of all by jeopardizing the integrity of the reforms.

Further, the ideological aspects ('free market zones' etc) distract from a more important idea – namely that cities can incubate better policies more safely, cheaply, and effectively than if reforms are tried first at the national level. Think Lean Startup for political reform.

The use of neighborhoods and municipalities as testbeds for reform is politically neutral... and it ought to stay that way, contrary to the wishes of some in this article!

Please consider visiting www.startupcities.org for a practical alternative to the 'charter cities' idea.
That wasn't my experience of working in a large insurer in Switzerland (admittedly just one company but I spoke to people who worked in other ones). I found the Swiss staff I dealt with didn't have the mental flexibility to deal with the sometimes chaotic world of managing a large IT system.

They could cope if it was something they understood but if it was a completely new problem they were generally at a loss. They tried to replace the contractors from my company three or four times and always ended up asking for them back after a month or two.

Obviously this is a generalisation based on working in one place but as I found Switzerland very rule based I wondered if that extended to their problem solving.
No, Germany has not always had a huge export surplus.

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/charts/germany-current-accou...

The current surplus is not a feature of German productivity but the result of having an undervalued Euro and depressed domestic demand.
Brightness is not even close to being enough on modern displays. Looking at a 700nit display outside is still at most only half as bright as looking at a sheet of paper in the same light conditions. 350nit is nowhere near being bad for your health. I can only recommend to try out a high luminance display.
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Qualcomm to Acquire CSR
Pedantic: why put "Confidential" on the bottom of a slide deck that you are giving in public, and fully expect to be released on YouTube?
My advice: consider a move to FreeBSD on servers. I know it might seem drastic, but if you're looking for a simpler init system, they've probably got a closer philosophy to you anyways.

That's what I've found at least, their rc system is dead simple, like Arch used to be before they started making changes to allow for systemd. I miss the day's of arch's rc.conf.
Fitwatchr, Fitbit app, year one: $26,000 profit and 14,000 users
Short answer: yes. I've never played a game without a healthy level of backstabbing. I suppose that's where the OP got the name...
I have a mid-2012 rMBP. I had terrible crashing problems - twice a day. Worse than any PC I ever had.

I had to take it in. And pay $550. Even though it's clearly a common problem, if not a design problem, something similar. Go check out the big apple support log on the problem.

I lost two weeks of productivity, because they failed to fix it the first time (it got worse).

If you have GPU panics, and you don't get your hardware fixed, you get what you deserve. Sorry for that. It's hard to get to a repair center or genius place? Sorry for that too.

Nothing to do with 10.10.

I've installed 10.10. It's running nicely.

What should you expect? Look through Ars' list. The changes are updates to the on-board apps - none of which I use (message center? no. Mail? no. etc). There are additional internal APIs for IOS tooling - good for the long term, nothing for now.

Mavericks was an important release. It treats multiple screens in a sensible way - finally addressing a weakness inherent in macs since '85. There has always been the Special Screen with real estate taken by the menu bar, no matter how many screens you have, you drag the cursor back to that screen over and over.

10.10 is not Mavericks.

In 10.10, you'll see some newer, cleaner fonts and icons, that's it.
Paleo's problem with racism and sexism
Certain countries often discuss "If we stopped trading with the rest of the world we would loose these benefits / win these benefits."
Most other countries think "We should cooperate with the rest of the world to help all our developement."

/me ducks in cover :-)
any evidence of systematic academic discrimination? any evidence of equal abilities across all ethnic groups in Germany?
I'm running firefox in docker right now using subuser[1].

[1] http://subuser.org
Vitesse Data: Postgres + LLVM
Competition for Oxbridge graduates is very fierce to the point where a graduate can be expecting to have multiple offers to consider from employers willing to wine and dine them before they have graduated.
The issue is, the Netherlands, in it's firm believe that it's so much better than other countries, has created a warped perception of corruption, which makes us look good in those survey based rankings. Because we actually believe our own delusion.

Take for instance the recent German corruption scandal that forced President Wulff to resign. Receiving such favors is business as usual in the Netherlands, and simply doesn't count as corruption. The media don't care either, with the exception of shock-blog GeenStijl. But even when the latter presents cold hard evidence, nine out of ten times the entire establishment including the media just goes "meh".

Doing business in the Netherlands that involves government contracts or regulation usually means having to bribe people in some way.

I'm not saying it's that much worse than in other countries (but it tends to shock our German and Nordic friends), but we definitely don't have the moral right call out American corruption via campaign contributions when the only difference is the way politicians get paid off.
> (note that the language reserves the unused `do` keyword for just this purpose).

I'm not entirely sure it's just for this purpose. `do` used to mean something in Rust, but when that syntax was removed, the keyword just wasn't freed up. Of course, if we do gain HKT, it will be nice to have it, but I'm not sure that was the justification at the time.
> But its key virtue is that it allows change of government without bloodshed.

This is a strongest point I ever heard in favour of democracy, and ironically, I don't remember ever being taught it in school or see it mentioned often.
Paradox game engine goes open source
I would be thrilled if Debian gave users the choice of init systems. I switched to systemd a couple months ago as well, and had nothing _but_ problems. My laptop never turns off, so boot times are irrelevant to me, and I would like to have a linux system that actually allows me to listen to audio, obtain an IP address, etc.

I would gladly switch back to Debian if I could swap systemd out for something else.
We use docker at stylight for deploying our frontend app (wildfly). We use the docker hub for storing images. When we do a release we basically push to the hub, pull on all upstreams and restart the containers with the new image. We have a base application image (containing java, wildfly etc.) which basically never changes so builds and distribution are super fast. We really like the fact that the containers are isolated! We ran into an issue the other day where we wanted to dump the heap of the JVM to debug some memory leak issue, this should be easier with 1.3!
Torrent – streamable video
http://www.spoilsrotten.com has variations on the maps, including some interesting geometric layouts :)
I feel that since I truly don't do anything that the NSA could be interested in, if I do something that puts me on their list for higher monitoring, I'm just wasting resources that they could be spending on looking for people who might be communicating with another Snowden. If I download and play with Tor, I'm really helping out people who are trying to exercise their rights. If the NSA 'list' includes everybody, then the list doesn't really have much value to them.
This exact outcome (running out of money and shutting down) was foreseeable from day 1. They should have had a plan in place beyond pretending it wasn't going to happen until it was too late.
ADSL/Cable modems are usually set up to download firmware from the ISP, at least in cable modems throttling is usually done on the device as well, so it is sort of resets every time you turn it off and on.
Very interesting. I'm curious, have you considered nixos?
We started a game of Diplomacy in the office. 7 developers, 7 players, 1 day per turn. We use Backstabbr to keep track of the game and have it drawn up on a whiteboard - it's been a lot of fun and increased moral a decent bit.

It's 1907, no one trusts each other anymore and everyone hates everyone.
I'm doing this, but starting with the minimal 80MB debian:stable image and then using apt-get to grab my dependencies. The 80MB covers the dependencies for apt-get.

I believe the centos images are also minimal, but the ubuntu image starts out much larger.
Harvard’s Open-Access Repository Is Going Where No Repository Has Gone Before
FYI: Here's a direct link to the web form for sharing your opinion with the Michigan governor's office:
https://somgovweb.state.mi.us/GovRelations/ShareOpinion.aspx
Exactly this. I'm about to graduate with a BS in Computer Science from Oakland University. We're less than a mile away from Chrysler World HQ. I'd say about 90% of my classmates already are, or are going to, work for one of the Big 3 or Big 3 suppliers. If you explained this situation to most people you met on the street, they would probably be in favor of fucking over Tesla.

Cars are pretty much the backbone of the entire economy here in MI. It's getting better, but not fast enough. Apparently what happened to Flint and Detroit wasn't enough of a wakeup call for everyone.
> Can i do something like a general try/catch far up the stack?

Rust does not have exceptions, so not exactly. You _could_ spin up a new task (thread) with the code, and then monitor that task for failure.
Thank you for that. I have taken a bit of a step back to have a think if I am maybe a bit too combative in my language sometimes. Personally, as someone who actually has occasional mental health issues, I think it is fine to question someone's sanity if they come out with ridiculous ideas. If we are banned from saying that someone is being crazy, then that is not going to help anyone, least of all the insane.

edit - my other comment that did get greyed out, was admittedly far more of a personal attack, which was based on me asking myself who would suggest such a thing if they were not crazy, and I decided that the best candidate was the creatures from "They Live", hence the comment about the sunglasses. This was poorly judged, though I do not know if it became greyed out due to the insulting nature, or purely because it was one comedy sci-fi reference too many.
In my experience both are true (and intrinsically linked): people I know who engage in various degrees of criminal activity both move in circles where this is acceptable, and in large part because of these circles they perceive themselves as not being criminals (but rather misunderstood, fighting the man, not buying into society's beliefs, etc.).

Another good example of this dynamic can be seen with alcoholics (whichever stage of alcoholism they might be in). I read recently that apparently about 30% of the US population does not drink at all, and about 10% are outliers (10+ drinks per day!). http://kottke.org/14/10/the-united-states-of-alcoholism.

Having been a non-drinker for most of my life, and a heavy drinker for part of my life, in both cases I felt I was (mostly) 'average'.

Of course, what I failed to take into account was that in my non-drinking period I was part of a community of non-drinkers, and I barely interacted with those who drink a lot, whereas in my drinking period I didn't interact with the 'boring lot' who don't drink and leave parties at such early times as 12 PM.

Another example of this is sexuality. I spent a significant period of of my life practicing abstinence (conservative christian), and a more recent period in an environment where casual sex was the norm. I always thought that this more recent period was the actual 'normal', until I decided to look up 'actual' averages. I thought having a sexual partner count in the double-digits was pretty normal, but apparently here in Holland the average amount of partners is around 6, and the median is lower than that.
Wayland's design as such is that every window manager implements their own compositor. Your regularly scheduled updates will get you on board, though I assume it'll be in compatibility mode with XWayland for quite some time.
Blame Intel for that. When Intel's chips represent a whopping 40 percent of the machine's BOM, there really isn't that much room left for a high-resolution IPS display.
You are completely wrong.

Germany has not had anything like this level of current account surplus before. It is entirely due to mistakes in macro economics (wrong parity within the Euro and a refusal to boost domestic demand).

Sadly Germans seem unable to understand that their surplus is not a sign of economic success, but the result of misguided policies that keep the rest of Europe in recession.
> Result is set up and marked to mandate its use,

To elaborate on this slightly, it's not that Result is special cased by the compiler, there's a 'must_use' attribute which ensures that you get a warning if you ignore it, and the definition of Result has it.
Well, there's Gratipay (formerly Gittip), which is a great platform since it allows you to support an open-source project through regular payments. Unfortunately, the project has not yet received broad adoption, which I hope will change in the future, though.

Here's the link:

http://www.gratipay.com

In fact, there is a page for the Tor community, so if you want to support them, go there and give them some money ;)

https://gratipay.com/for/tor
same happened to me.. they came out also to do a site visit and quote and I think my electric bill was something like 160 a month and they quoted me at like $145 a month.

I'm on the boat that in 5-10 years solar will be so cheap everyone will just be buying panels and not leasing and even battery storage could be cheap to buy. The people with 25-30 year leases will be kicking themselves.
How Many Sierra Games Does It Take to Fill Up the 5K iMac Retina Screen?
Show HN: A Ruby library for generating fake personalities
Debian's sysvinit script wrappers were not in any way simple.
As others have said Apple will absolutely replace the screen for any dead pixels. I had mine first crappy LG screen replaced because of two dead pixels and they told me they'd do it if it was only one.
Why we might never see a retina Thunderbolt display
In typical virtualisation + config management you specify a base image and bunch of config files and commands.

In a Dockerfile you specify a base image and commands, may often invoke a config management tool.

How is using Docker more declarative?
They also had a ton of other products like web servers and ecommerce platforms.
Lobbying also includes when you call your representative to complain about a certain issue.

So, to ban lobbying outright is to ban input from every citizen to their representative.
> If you can't come up with a compelling reason for users to upgrade

I'd like to use keycodes > 255 please.
This is a good lesson in economics for the kids. When something is in demand and it has limited supply, the price increases. Simple as that.
Jonathan Blow posted this on Twitter:
"I kind of don't understand what's the big deal with these 'modern' "display servers" like Wayland / Mir / etc. it ought to be kind of simple actually, because we now have all this experience with drawing graphics and we know how it should go. So I wonder if it's just being made more complicated than it really needs to be, the same way GUI libraries always are. GUI libraries are generally terrible, but this is self-perpetuating as people making new GUI libs absorb bad assumptions from the old ones. There's an interview up with a Mir developer who mentions Mir is structured as communication via a protocol over sockets. And, like, I have literally NO IDEA why you would build a window system like that in 2014. It makes no sense to me at all. (But if you do decide that's how things should go, things become a lot more complicated, so that's at least part of the problem.)

A major reason computers are so unreliable and un-fun to use is because software is now a massive pile of overcomplication. When it comes to a core thing like a window system, that many programs will interface with, simplicity should be a high design priority. Because every bit of complication that goes into the window system propagates. EVERY SINGLE PROGRAM becomes more complicated. Every piece of software becomes harder to develop. The toll in man-years becomes HUGE very quickly. Yet for some reason people don't learn. I think there is some Stockholm Syndrome happening: programmers can't even imagine how much more they would get done if the underlying systems were as simple, reasonable and solid as they should be."

I'm curious about HN's opinion on this.
Yes. My rMBP had a dead pixel that stuck out like a sore thumb to me. Whenever you have a solid color on the screen you notice it.
Rust used to also have Either, and it was changed to Result for the same reasons. Name things what they mean. :)
Is the photographer claiming ownership of the concept of "the back of Rod Stewart's head"?
Please do not dismiss legitimate issues as personal attacks. Just because you did not hit issues, doesn't mean others didn't. My experience was quite negative:

- Binary log files, which are also prone to corruption and crashes

- Unnecessarily complicated and unfamiliar init script structure. I feel like I went from one that was arguably too verbose to one which is too vague.

- The need for unnecessary things like dbus to be run at startup

- Complication of some simple configuration tasks (in my experience on Arch at least, network configuration was a bitch)

- udev has apparently been hijacked and may cause issues for those who don't want systemd

All in all, it feels like change for the sake of change to me, I see no advantages which I desire, and several minor to moderate disadvantages, but learning and using it is pushed on me for no reason. Personally, I've moved to running FreeBSD, it's simple and stable, though I've been considering Debian/kFreeBSD, I'd be sad to see it go. But it's the farthest of the issues with systemd IMO.

As far as your boot time improvement goes, that's great, but modernly, my systems are either always online or suspended to RAM or disk, rarely rebooted.
THIS!

I habe never heared anything good about the "Berufsschule" so I decided to get a degree and work parttime as dev to get good theoretical and practical education here in germany.
Do anybody knows what is in the software? like which languages were used on it? or other technical feats?
Agreed, what does this aircraft do when the FMS has no more waypoints to head towards? What if the wrong waypoint was fat-fingered?
systemd in Debian is still in testing, it's expected to be buggy at this point.

Have you tried a distribution which already comes with systemd preconfigured, such as Fedora, Suse or CentOS?
Great explanation. If possible, I'd love to see/know more about how the statistician training step was accomplished. I also work with many nontechnical folks and haven't found success getting training on docker to 'stick'.
Yea because we should force anyone who wants to break into an established market to pay for a shit ton of marketing and political attack ads! /s
There should be a "NSFW" equivalent for articles with potentially harmful levels of smug. (I've read a lot of articles by jwz over many years, and he is how he is, but still...)
How do you deal with connections that are in progress to the app server? If you just take it down, you're potentially throwing away active connections.
At some point, someone linked to a site that let people donate or bounty-out for people to run Tor exit nodes, or relays. Can't remember the details, or the url, though. I've been looking for it...
The company has no money, what are you going to sue them for? If they're properly incorporated you wouldn't be able to go after the owners.
I installed it on my iMac 27" from 2009. It does not boot now and goes into a panic. I haven't had much time to mess with it but there are no other partitions and it just does not load.

Its also weird because I have no media now. I have the discs it came with somewhere but that will also be Lion 10.7? Or possibly Snow Leopard. The re-install is going to be a bitch for me. UGH!
How to Use Google's SMTP Server
Looks like they have lost their www DNS record.

> linuxvoice.com
Server:	8.8.8.8
Address:	8.8.8.8#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:	linuxvoice.com
Address: 104.28.6.18
Name:	linuxvoice.com
Address: 104.28.7.18
> www.linuxvoice.com
Server:	8.8.8.8
Address:	8.8.8.8#53

Non-authoritative answer:
* Can't find www.linuxvoice.com: No answer
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The Rosetta Mission Trailer – Landing on a Comet [video]
If you mean extremely demanding games sure, the rMBP is not a gaming machine. But it plays many games quite well. Examples: Borderlands 2 @ 1920x1200 with high settings (Windows), Fallout 3 @ full res and high settings (Windows), Diablo III, Minecraft (more CPU demanding than GPU), Left 4 Dead 2 @ full res with high settings.
Qt 5.4 Beta Available
I'm using 4.0.2 but I don't see this option anywhere.
What sort of things do you miss? Never got to use NeXT so purely from a 'seeing what I'm missing' point of view.
Your perfectly fine software(X11), lets windows spy on each other and read keystrokes to other windows. Any client can pretty much control the entire server.
Removing the old notation was certainly not solely motivated by wanting to free up the keyword, but the reason that it remains reserved is in anticipation of future use, rather than simple negligence (though of course this decision could be reversed before 1.0).
Hilariously, this is the rival school of thought in literary criticism. The author's intent doesn't matter.