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There is one great reason to go to the police: it establishes a paper trail documenting that a crime was committed. It isn't necessary that the police catch the bad guys for that paper trail to be advantageous.

(Examples: police reports make CC disputes and legal declarations much easier and more likely to be given weight as other than self-serving explanations of a deadbeat. It may also trigger insurance policies either for you or for the VPS company.)
You can add ConditionPathExists= or ConditionPathIsDirectory= to a Unit to check if one or more directories exist. You can also substitute the userid into commands with %U, so you could have it always chown before running the command, as you can have multiple ExecStart= directives.

http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.serv... and http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.unit...
A couple of things that can lay some of the conjecture to rest.

1. Films are 24fps. 48fps is exotic and extremely rare.

2. Some stereo is planned to be done with conversion, some films are a hybrid between conversion and actual renders for each eye. If this movie is stereo it was very likely done by rendering each eye, as that has been the approach for their stereo films after Meet The Robinsons.

3. Films are still rendered at 2k. 4k is still extremely rare.

4. Typical frame times are probably between 2 to 10 hours on 8 cores. Many passes go into a typical frame, but usually only a couple are heavy (many hours).

5. Amazon and other clusters actually are being used and investigated by CG companies to be used during peak times (the last 6-8 weeks of a show). Profitability is not something that comes down to rendering however. It is an expense, but the vast majority of the money goes to pay the hundreds of people who work at the studio.

6. Hardware is not stored. It is on the farm and switched on, or decommissioned.
Intuitively that might seem like the case, but it isn't true in the systems I'm familiar with (UK, Canada).

Ironically, often in the US I've had less choice in providers due to network constraints on insurance.
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great idea to me, should have existed before, and a suggestion for future maturity. For a given code base, have a cumulative tree with all possible combinations of feature choices, look at "feature model" in wikipedia so you can map a FODA diagram to a VCS controlled tree, that is, think of a code base as a product line instead of a fixed product.
Ask HN: Are there any innovative startups in the insurance industry?
Seems like most innovation in this space consists of incremental improvement. Are there any companies actually disrupting this industry?
It seems that porn business pushed technology for e-payments and data storage/transfer:

http://www.enterprisefeatures.com/2011/06/ten-indispensable-...

I have no idea if now they are frontiers of innovation.
so would it work if Kona changed?
> Why would I expect them to maintain a fork and ensure it has full sysv init support, if they don't even have the time to engage in the current process?

Probably because they (experienced Unix veterans) realized that it makes much more sense to test the demand of a fork (that's what they made the website for) than to continue any useless discussion about systemd. Some systemd proponents obviously have serious problems to make a sober discussion anyway (interestingly also in a prominent German forum).

Notice: "If SystemD will be substituting SystemV in Debian, we will fork the project and create a new distro: Pure Debian by Veteran Unix Admins. We hope this won't be necessary, but we are well prepared for it."

They are not eager to make a fork but I think they will actually do it if necesary.
And what happens when that single file doesn't work? The one time I had to deploy a custom service using systemd, there was no feedback as to why it wasn't working with service start. No error message, no guidance on how to debug online, no indication of where to look. By contrast adding it to a shell script just worked.
Your log files are binary already. What do you think 'cat' is, other then a binary log reader?

Binary log files are as easy to read as ASCII with the right translator. Tagged binary formats are easily and trivially self-describing, and as resistant to corruption as ASCII.

The problem is, people think they'll be able to understand corrupt ASCII logs, but in reality basically never deal with them. They deal with truncated logs - which, well guess what, can be handled just as easily as for binary logs.

Given that journald can be configured with a log size of 0, and to output everything straight to syslog, this is such a non-complaint it's absurd. Especially when the hot thing in syslog management is usually to stream everything into a database of some kind to make it easy to search!

EDIT: Oh yeah, and this is assuming you're not compressing your logs. Which you probably are. In which case, they're already a very complicated, very corruptible non-binary format for which you have to use a fairly complicated read app (zcat) to access.
I think that there's opportunity in teledildonics as well.

If it wasn't for it being, well, teledildonics, I'd be interested in pursuing it.
Yes. This happened to a company I worked for in the UK in the last 1990s. We had a half rack full of NT4 machines and someone got into our kit and used it to run a pr0n FTP. They took us to court to pay up and the magistrate said we had no bill to pay and that it was a waste of court time as it wasn't intentional.

You're right about reporting a crime though even if the police don't take it seriously. A crime ref number goes a long way on its own.

Edit: we had to move our kit sharpish though as the company exercised their right to throw it on the street within 24 hours.
It is sub-optimal (to the extent that people die) to train doctors how to make decisions when they're tired by forcing a bunch of doctors to be tired most of the time.

It'll happen sooner or later, if not done during residency. But residencies have the advantage of a degree of supervision, and in a location where ... I hate to call it a support system, but, still, the people working with them know they're residents and expect them to green et. al.

The alternative is this happening when they're "on their own", even if part of a multi-doctor practice, clinic, ER or whatever. After residency they will statistically be making decisions when they're tired or otherwise not at their best. Didn't sleep well the night before, got woken up because one of their patients is in a crisis and their input is needed (although I gather that's less common nowadays), and there are the unexpected emergencies when their skills are needed without prior warning.

My take on the current system, butressed by all the doctors I've talked to about this, is that it's "optimal" when you consider all the factors. Just focusing on the residency period is insufficient to make a judgement.
IMHO the problem is not that men "don't appreciate a woman's pleasure" - that is some serious bullshit in my opinion. Most men love it when their SO enjoys sex.

The problem (to me) is the criminalization of porn and prostitution in the US.
Just think about what kind of outrage it would cause if Stripe had a single prostitute or porn website use their service to receive payments. (For the sake of argument assume the prostitute is located in a jurisdiction that does not prohibit the practice, IIRC it is allowed in parts of Nevada)

Now Stripe gets flack for being overly cautious - there's just no way to do this without provoking a shit storm from one group.
To clarify: why would you want a choice in init systems in a single distro? To me, a distro is a package manager+packages and an init system. You add a different init system, you have a different distro. Everything else is modular, but the init system is something that is at the very core of the OS. This is why most distros support multiple kernels, file systems, etc. but only one init system.
Avoiding risk is not necessarily rational.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_aversion
This. SystemD means you can boot the system without needing a shell installed at all which is what Debian has been proposing moving towards for a very minimal server image.
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"People like Japanese or Chinese"? Seriously?
"Staircase wit" is a much better translation than "the spirit of the stairwell." It has the added virtue of being explainable in English.
I really doubt that it was an intentional 'grab all your info' move, it is just a decision made at the time where engineers were reigning at Google and thought that 'give the user a list of all the permissions required by the app' was a great solution.
It kinda work ... except that generations of users have learned to always click yes when there is a warning ..
Also, you sometimes have to ask for a permission like SMS, only because you will use it in a very specific case (in this example for SMS payments in that country where it is a popular form of payment).
Now that we have been rolling with this system for quite a while, it is very hard to change it.
Apple had a couple of issues as well, but mostly got it right from the start.
What was the situation? In the OP's case, they're alleging a very definite crime of illegally accessing a VPN to do nasty things with it. I think at least taking a report is going to be standard behavior, though I wouldn't be surprised if they just let it "sit on the shelf".

If it's just a garden variety dispute with a company, then it's more likely to be a) a civil matter, and b) subject to interpretation.
http://faploid.com has been in beta a long time but it's gotten awards. Hopefully it works out soon.
Actually GPUs can raytrace extremely fast, and shading the hit points is basically the same as running the shaders of a game (local linear algebra). GPUs are not used much though because the video card memory is very limiting.
I'm surprised that this is surprising.

That said, there's a difference between malicious "holding out" and being reserved with political information. I'm not going to hide something that's purely technical, but political information is (a) dangerous to share, and (b) often incomplete, meaning you could unduly bias someone with your own half-knowledge. Besides, while everyone will "listen to" a gossip, no one will ever defend one.

However, there's a certain room for reciprocity. If I trust that someone will look out for me, I'll look out for him or her. Your odds aren't good, in the long run, if you try to walk through this world alone.

I think of modern corporate life as post-apocalyptic, like in The Walking Dead. The HR drones who implement stack-ranking, the mindless backstabbers, and the self-destructively sadistic middle managers out there are the zombies. In numbers, inferior but ravenous beings like zombies can overwhelm the living and strong, and they do so, so often, that they're a primary landscape feature of this new world. (One place where this metaphor breaks down is that it's not clear, in the real world, who are the living and who are the zombies. But bear with me.) For those who haven't figured it out, zombie horror is really about "tyranny of the majority", which is a formidable enemy within an organization.

You have to know who your friends and your enemies are, and sometimes you have to make decisions quickly. While you "fight" the zombies (except, you do it by making them click on ads and mindlessly support brands you invent, not killing them) you also have to fear the living.

If our parents and grandparents knew what little politicians and fire-starters we are, as a generation, they'd be horrified. We're not actually morally any worse. In fact, we're probably better in many ways (less racist, less sexist, and unlike the Boomers we didn't cause widespread organizational failure because we were still children during the Reagan Era). We're just post-apocalyptic (and OK with that). We know that the people in power aren't looking out for us, so we don't give a shit about them. Compared to our elders, we care more about people who we actually know and can (sometimes) trust, but less about organizations and society.
The idea could be cool, but that README needs some work. See, http://scoreme.report
Because a lot of people are speaking very authoritatively, yet with little content, about systemd. They raise objections based on partial or inaccurate information. Various bans on discussion are happening precisely because it's apparent that a number of people are no longer interested in useful discussion, so much as creating chaos until they get their way.

Manifestly described by the idea that people without time to interact with Debian, are going to instead launch their own Linux distro.
I challenged a friend of mine who works long shifts at an ER about why they allowed doctors to work tired, when other industries like airline pilots, air traffic controllers, truckers, even factory workers abide by restricted schedules to make sure they are well-rested.

He pointed out the caregiver handoff is also a source of errors--the departing doctor can't fully describe the history and their thought processes about every aspect of every patient they are treating. And people sometimes make mistakes on charts. He said the schedule at his hospital, at least, tries to strike a balance between continuity of care and fully rested doctors.
Ironic that this article in particular should lie behind a pay wall.
all i know is that Czar Snowden put the cross on both companies
I think men are just wary of being seen as creeps. At a recent job search lecture at my uni we were told to never have a picture on your CV, with this as example of how it goes wrong: "Let's say you're a beautiful woman and you send a company your CV with pic on it. Now, the reviewer of your CV is male and if he asks you in for an interview the other employees at the company might suggest he did it because of the way you look. The reviewer will avoid this awkward situation by throwing your CV in the trash. Do not have a picture on your CV."

Basically, the expectations of a modern man's sexuality are pretty fucked up and contradictory and most prefer to avoid the entire thing in public.
I used Ease of Access Center in Windows to control the mouse via the numpad to get past the really annoying ones, getting past those parts was worth it.
The 24-28 hour shifts might be a detriment in convincing people to pursue that career
My surgery cost me roughly 1-3 months of a typical Indian software engineer's salary. If my relative wealth had been the same it would have been a very good experience.

In contrast, there was a recent NYT article about a person in the US who underwent a similar surgery. A single billing discrepancy (to say nothing about the entire bill) is comparable to a software engineer's yearly salary.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/21/us/drive-by-doctoring-surp...

Furthermore, the experience was easy, with none of the nonsense I deal with in the US. When I got to India, my initial medical exam cost roughly the same as a dinner at a decent restaurant. An MRI cost me the same as an expensive night out. I was given a price quote for the treatment and the total cost (including incidentals) was within 2-3% of the quote. The only person who even tried to rip me off during the process was the auto rickshaw driver who took me home.

Certainly the bill would have hurt me more if I were a typical Indian. But the experience I'm describing is not the wealth gap. I know people who are "that much wealthier" than the average American and they do have lots of complaints about the US system.
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It is a pity that they don't use Chinese symbols but invented their own. I really hope one day I can write programs in Chinese, i.e., programs are also valid Chinese, and have the same meaning.
If we wish to remove such dysfunctions, best to drop the grading system (to the extent stamping a number on your forehead affects your future life).

I do exactly this, and none of us "cheat". Cheating is a meaningless concept to us anyway; using someone else's work is as silly as stealing from your own wallet.

As for avoiding leechers, they're often called "managers" and "bosses". (I say that as a manager. Structurally, and in the vast majority of cases, they're leeches.)
I just drew dicks everywhere.
Conversely a well-coded C program isn't pulling in a huge amount of additional, irrelevant functionality to the task.
Debian lets choose between the Linux, FreeBSD, and Hurd kernels, but choosing an init system is too much?

P.S. What happens for packages in Debian for FreeBSD and Hurd where systemd isn't available?
Cool Idea!! Using it definitely.
If we had more doctors, it seems that it would also cost less to train more doctors (assuming that more doctors made the average doctor's time less costly). An unfortunate feedback loop there.
Is creating Front end Frameworks worth it anymore?
Answer with your honest opinion! Would you use one or just get a readily made theme?
this whole website rather sounds like a blackmail. I'm not a big fan of systemd (anymore) either. but forking is not a solution to the init-system problem et al.
You're ignoring the much more strict training and operating systems in place for them, when an instructor pilot corrects their mistakes before they become fatal. Once they "graduate" to a certain level of pilot, or for a given plane model, they still have a copilot who they might be training, but who is also supposed to point out when they are making a mistake.

The demands are also different: pilots don't get called out of their normal schedule to be asked about a problem they observed with plane X the last time they flew it (rather, they're supposed to report it at the end of the flight and mechanics will look at it).

Emergencies also have a different nature, I gather its much more likely you'll be short flyable planes than air crews. A look at the Berlin airlift might be instructive. A book I recently read on the WWII air war in the South Pacific said that was true for both sides. Although of course the rules in wartime are different.
> Feminism wishes for multiple different phenomena to be described by the same label in order to help make reality clear?

No. The term "sexism" was first coined by feminists in the late sixties, and they defined its meaning to describe, well, sexism, rather than misogyny (the more overt, malicious, form of sexism, or the analogous to murder in your example), which is a far older word (misogyny appears in Webster's, while sexism doesn't).

There's something else, though, that makes the accepted definition of sexism more "correct", or, at least, more useful, than your one (which is common, but isn't the common usage). Only the accepted definition of sexism describes how women are subjugated by society. Not misogyny, but a well established power structure, precipitated by many means, many of them innocent but certainly far from innocuous (same goes for racism, which is like sexism towards other races while xenophobia is analogous to misogyny). So, we already have a word for your definition, and personally I think that "ism" words are best used to describe social phenomena, or cultural ideas -- not individuals' actions (like murder) whose definition has to do with intent or judgment. "Your" sexism (which is really just misogyny) does not deserve an "ism" word, as it's more an act, or a "crime", than a cultural phenomenon.

True, you are not the only one to use "sexism" colloquially to mean misogyny, but in this case, let's let the meaning of the word be that assigned to it by its inventors, at least while it's still young.
This is not true. Frames are queued to computers with free cores and memory. Splitting up frames across multiple computers is a brute force option that is rarely used. When you get to that point on show it is because render times are huge and often because renders have failed and need to be forced through during the day to make a deadline. It is a telltale sign of disaster show.

On an individual box frames are split up into tiles and the tiles are rendered on individual cpu cores.
This was an exciting, nostalgic read. Simcity was such a huge part of my childhood.
"If these values ever differ from what's currently in etcd, then my Django app will send a signal to cause uwsgi to gracefully restart the Django app, so that it can reload itself with the new configuration"

You could probably avoid the restart/reload by using skydns (https://github.com/skynetservices/skydns), it is a local dns service built on top of values in etcd. You can configure your django app to access the other service containers by dns name and it will be translated to the correct ip all the time.
Modern CPU cores are faster than CPU cores from before the "multicore" era. I think we're figuring out how to make CPU cores faster _and_ pack many of them into the same space.
"I'm not sure why people set up such incentive structures. Is it greed?"

I think it comes down to managerial laziness and social discomfort. Giving someone a bad performance review or dealing with poor performance is inherently an uncomfortable social interaction. Once a manager acknowledges that someone isn't meeting standards organizations usually have a process by which they need to help that person improve or eventually fire them which is a lot of extra work for that manager.

In other words it is a way to force managers into dealing with bad employees instead of letting problems fester.
Great input! Thanks for the recommendation - will def look into it
That's one way of looking at it.

Another is engineers wanting to reinvent the wheel.

Ignition switch springs are a solved problem, but specifying a new system smells more like cleverness than using a part from the warehouse shelf.

In manufacturing, production lines at all the tiers have to retool at the right time. This year's new models began design over a decade or more ago.
ok, so he should go to the police

but that has nothing to do with helping HIM...
I do not think it has much to do with culture as much as it has to do with the incentive structures in place. I have never studied outside Europe but even in Europe I have experienced grading systems were you are praised for your achievement with respect to your mates and others were you are praised for your achievement objectively. Honour titles are usually objective, and very hard to get while grants and scholarships are subjective, there is a quota set per year and it goes to the best that that year has to offer.

But yes, sometimes the incentive structures set up are really counter productive. If the work is supposed to be a team effort then you shouldn't praise anyone less than the whole team for their achievement. Otherwise, what incentive do the team members have to work together?
Culture convergence, awesome!
which phones use systemd?
Relevant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ucCJ_Vn58w
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Yep, it's a fantastic game!

I'd wager that even more complex group dynamics could be witnessed if each cursor looked a little (or a lot) different.