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Servers is precisely where I want systemd!

There are some things I've wanted reliable and consistent mechanisms for so long: starting/restarting/inspecting services, isolation/resource limiting, socket activation, log collection.
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those r and f are malformed. using firefox latest on win7.

is this a webfont or a css3 bug ?
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systemd makes a lot of sense for embedded systems:

* Embedded systems use watchdogs. systemd implements a watchdog supervisor chain, where systemd supervises applications, and the hardware watchdog supervises systemd.

* kdbus: efficient IPC

* networkd: simple network setup, very fast DHCP client

* fast boot times

* handles many complexities, so that embedded developers can focus on their application
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This is a just series of directions to the USCIS. Well see the details when the USCIS publishes the new rules as directed. It'll take some time and probably face opposition from the legislative branch too, so you should not expect anything in the very short term.
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No it's not just one data point. This is the final straw to use the old phrase. After a few years of serious problems, our most recent being CIFS VFS problems causing panics and mounts locking up on CentOS 6.5, hard locks on RH certified hardware, power management hell and so much incredible churn with no progress and the sudden "fuck POSIX" approach, it paints a really bad picture of the current state of things.

There is a distinct lack of engineering prowess and quality control. It originates at the core GNU + kernel + freedesktop teams and waterfalls down through the distribution houses.

That's the problem and it's endemic within Linux.
The title seems to imply a dispute between them when in fact it's a partnership.
> but lacks the capability to sink a well and pull water out of the ground?

But they also have to dispose of the heated water. An ordinance preventing that would cause complications.

And if electricity supplies are withheld, they then have to spend more money installing generator plant and ( vetted ) personnel to operate that.

> the NSA could still have giant data centers in this country by the simple expedient of building them on ships.

Ships require victuals, fuel and connectivity. Ships are subject to inspection by maritime authorities, unless stationed in international waters - which an intelligence agency would never risk.

~~

All of this would require a request for expansion of the budget, or alternatively eat into the operational aspects of the current budget.

In the absence of any high-level political will to address the underlying issue, making routine operations difficult and expensive would seem to be the only practical approach.
Being a PhD CS student, I find it professionally disappointing that this technology arises mainly for graphic artists where the translation from ink to content is basically dot per dot. Or dot per vector, but in this case already arcs have some internal order that vectorization misses (have characters on a different layer than background, etc).

I understand the targeting -- there's vastly more doodlers (professional or amateur) than scientists with cash in their pocket for gadgets. [1] Generating LaTeX from handwriting [2] is still in the distant future, ebook readers for people with A4 needs have gone stagnant since 2010 (although there is the extremely expensive Sony DPT-S1 [3] ).

The main advances I see in science is making faster use of the technology of yesteryear -- streaming classes and conferences on YouTube, arXiv being near mandatory now in CS, and so forth.

[1]: I am currenly a person in that exact group -- the university where I am a PhD student has a surplus of equipment funds every year. Every December, I am asked whether I want a laptop, a tablet, or anything else (with the implied condition that it should be purchasable in Central Europe, which rules out several products such as the DPT-S1 [3] or the Microsoft Surface). I have so far always declined as there's nothing that I can imagine improving my productivity.

[2]: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1443/what-is-the-sta... (2010)

[3]: https://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/product-DPTS1/?PID=I:digitalpa...
This might be a stupid question, but does this mean that the number of Emeralds can that exist in the server is limited by the number of bitcoins that the owner has in the bank? I don't see how they can have a Minecraft world that has an infinite amount of space (and therefore infinite Emeralds) and support cashing out the Emeralds into bitcoins?
When Alice and Bob communicate over Bitmessage, Eve can only see garbage being propagated through the network.

But when Alice sends a message to Bob (who is an undercover TLA agent), Bob could monitor traffic and statistically figure that certain IP address sends messages addressed to him earlier than other nodes. So he goes and busts the owner of that IP address.

Onion routing attempts to make this discovery harder for Bob because Bob will always receive messages from different IPs that supposedly do not belong to him. They have little value to him because they themselves are connected to relaying nodes, not to initial senders. Bob would have to bust too many IPs before finding the sender, which could be too expensive.

Onion routing begins to fail when Bob has a lot of his own nodes in the Tor network, so for a large enough number of messages he can trace route back to the sender's physical address.

To achieve real anonymity when chatting with strangers (e.g. blackmarket merchants), one needs to use a combination of these factors:

1) Bitmessage or alike to avoid evesdropping.

2) Tor to make it harder for recipient to find location of the sender.

3) Low-latency network to make statistical analysis less efficient. Every relaying node (both Tor and Bitmessage) should delay broadcasting messages randomly.

4) Infrequent communication, so it takes time for recipient to gather data. (This is a variant of #3)

5) Change physical location frequently, randomly and rarely reuse them. E.g. connect from various free wi-fi points in cafes, parks, shops, Apple Stores etc.

6) Never reuse identity between people you communicate with. Merchants must have separate Bitmessage and Bitcoin address per invoice (once item is sold, post another item with different identity). Buyers must use different Bitmessage and Bitcoin address for each purchase. This way amount of information available to an adversary will be strictly limited to just one deal. And that deal will be limited to one unique location and a few exchanged messages that hopefully won't be enough to locate the person. And even if that happens, person couldn't be charged with more than one sin.

If you communicate with people you trust (friends, family members), you only need #1 and that would be enough.
"×" seems to be the hip way to denote a collaboration these days :)
It helps having a manager that helps you do this. I can (and do) say 'a' isn't a prioty right now, I'm working on 'r'. If it is urgent take it up with >managers name< and we can reprioritize if he agrees. After all I have given him a promise that something will be done, and he is the one to make the decision to postpone it, not me.
You used have one component that needed to fail to start losing logs. Now you have two.
Really? That's really interesting. Do you have any more info/background how it came to be that he wrote them (and only them?)
You can't realistically submit a patch to change the direction that Systemd's is going in. For example, they won't accept a patch which removes 95% of the code, so a more modular system can be built.

Submitting a patch, implies you agree with the general direction but need a bug fixed or a feature added.
This made my friday morning coffee about ten times better. I work on Victoria Street, right in front of Westminster Cathedral and find this extremely fascinating and at the same time intriguing. Next time I walk out for lunch, I'll keep an eye on the sites mentioned. Thanks for sharing!
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IN 2021.

So even if they pass this next year, the NSA have six years to sue them and do whatever they like - i.e. ruin the lives of anyone who opposes them, and any legislators who voted in favour of this, and then maybe implant their own people, who'll vote that everyone from Utah is now an NSA-serf and must provide blood for cooling.

More effective would be a cunningly managed massive algal bloom upstream from their intakes, which would neatly clog all the things, and hopefully cause a large fire, localised entirely in their information nexus of doom.
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> My personal conclusion (as much as people shout at me otherwise) is that geek communities quietly realize they are top-1% users and their usage patterns are subsidized by everybody else

You are conflating two very separate issues and the statement is false. Being a top-1% user by volume does not mean that you are subsidized by everybody else.

Network costs are diven by peak usage, i.e. when there is a risk of congestion. Peak usage is during primetime and the majority of users are online then. Thus almost everybody uses the network at the same time and it makes sense to share the cost equally. Hence nobody is subsidizing anybody else.

Here's the data to back me up:

"In order to investigate these issues, we took real user data for all the broadband customers connected to a single aggregation link and analyzed the network statistics on data consumption in five-minute time increments over a whole day.The data was shared by an ISP in North America who wanted to understand its own network usage. Our analysis tracked both data consumption (i.e. total MB downloaded) and bandwidth usage (i.e. Mbps being used).

...

42% of all customers (and nearly 48% of active customers) are amongst the top 10% of bandwidth users at onepoint or another during peak hours."

Source: diffeaction Analysis
http://www.fiberevolution.com/2011/11/do-data-caps-punish-th...
I realize that a government or legislature deals in a world of compromises posing as moral imperative, but on immigration specifically I find it hard to stomach.

I think immigration systems are inherently broken. Free movement is a basic freedom. The right to take employment is a basic right. All compromises that make these rights and freedoms subservient to an immigration policy are inherently broken by the standards I consider moral.

Add to that the fact that many of the focuses on the problem with immigrants are xenophobic at their core, whether obvious or not.

This isn't just a theoretical objection, we can see the basic compromises at a high level poisoning everything.

Take "migrant workers" as a category. Their right to be present is inherently linked to employment. This gives their employer a kind of power over them that is inconsistent with liberal democratic civil rights. They don't vote. Aren't represented. Take this to an extreme and we end up with something like the gulf states, societies where migrant workers are the majority and have their rights limited in ways that harken to Ancient slave-citizen societies.

Thee's an old cliche that 'freedom is indivisible.' It's crude, but I think there's a lot to it. Once freedom of movement is limited, it can be negotiated. Those granted permission do so are asked to forfeit rights or they immigrate illegally and forfeit rights. In either case we end up with societies where not everyone has the same rights. The lack of freedom permeates.

I really do hope that eventually we will be in a world where freedom of movement is a universal human right.
Naive question : is there an equivalent application that would allow to quickly transform my handwriting into unicode ?(Basically OCR but maybe with some learning mechanism)
I have mixed feelings about systemd: like many others, I've spent a lot of time with traditional Unix systems (25 years) and like the simplicity and stability commonly associated with them and familiar tools/conventions. On the other hand, OS X showed what a modern system built on Unix should feel and look like, while Linux never got anywhere near (not only on the GUI layer). If it takes unreasonable people to make progress (like in the famous G.B. Shaw quote), then let's sit back and see what happens. Perhaps Linux will shed more cruft and become simpler to develop for rather than harder.

Of course, I'm in the favourable position of not having to maintain/administer a bunch of Linux boxes for a living. I can fully understand the frustration of people who built and shipped custom solutions on top of SysV init.

The end of Linux? No, it's the end of Linux as a traditional Unix with lots of arbitrary optional features on top perhaps. We'll get used to it, or switch to something better.
Go re-read some reviews of Manhunt 2. Seriously, that game was messed up. I read somewhere that it caused turmoil at Rockstar.
Idea: uber for telescopes?
Any value in such an idea? Are telescopes a shareable resource?
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The most surprising thing is that the whole chain of events seems to have been nobody's intent. From wikipedia:

Chalfie and Tsien invited Prasher and his wife, Virginia Eckenrode, to attend the Nobel Prize ceremony, as their guests and at their expense. All three of the 2008 Chemistry laureates thanked Prasher in their speeches.

In June 2010, Prasher was finally able to return to science, working for Streamline Automation in Huntsville until December 2011, then from 2012 on, in Roger Tsien's lab at the University of California in San Diego.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Prasher)
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That's a separate issue (from platform control). Nintendo got off of the censorship train in the mid-1990's and haven't looked back, although their own work remains uniformly all-ages friendly with little exception.

Edit: But, I should add that they are going to dictate more terms if they are acting as the publisher, which may be the case with eShop games.
So SmartDataCenter?
Does Hacker News advertise? The pizza place I love doesn't advertise. Not even Google or Facebook advertise, and look where they are. Ironically they are guilty of hurting consumers, democracy and the free market as I've explained: by relying on ads rather than getting their money from us honestly.

Good products get found the natural way: customers tell other customers. Why? Because the product is good!

Most advertising is manipulation of perceptions of goodness. Or about using dominant market position and revenue to maintain that dominance, drowning out better rivals who can't afford a similar ad budget (Advertising people are honest about this and call it a moat).

Need to explain your product or its benefits? Put up a website. If the claims are true, customers will pass the link around. You only need to pay to get someone to insert your product in the grapevine if your product isn't good.
Fun fact/veiled attempt to ask for money: Ron Gilbert and Dave Grossmann are creating a new adventure in the style of Maniac Mansion: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thimbleweedpark/thimble...

(No affiliation, I'm a backer though.)
I meant that shops are likely to already have data sitting in hdfs/hive/whatever which they can trivially use with mahout, while they may not have it sitting on a single file system on a beefy machine.
Great job! Github should integrate this!
I disagree.

There are very few heterogenic systems in the enterprise. That is an objective, but the main thing is that we deliver what we're paid to deliver by choosing an appropriate platform. We have Solaris, zSeries, Linux and Windows. We just got rid of AIX.

As for minor differences, FreeBSD has a lot of much bigger wins than people realise at first glimpse. The differences are far from minor. For example:

ZFS, dtrace, rctl, a scary good IP stack, virtio support, documentation that doesn't suck, a POSIX base, LLVM/clang, a MAC framework that doesn't suck, OpenBSM, CARP and a pile more. Oh plus an automated deployment story that is pretty tidy.

Sure we can replicate some of these on CentOS 7 for example with similar tech but the above are a million times more cohesive.
I maintain a list of technologies I intend to kill without mercy when I become an all-powerful IT superhero. The list includes WS-*, MIME encoding, FTP, POP, SMTP, UTF-16.

Oh, and rename the HTTP "Referer".

All kidding aside, XML is not bad per se. The stuff that all kinds of committees have surrounded it with is what's really bad.
This sounds a whole lot better than the bitcoin ran minecraft server where you were meant to put in your coins into the server's wallet... Then again, that XAPO thing sounds a little weird.

Like most things bitcoin, I'm weary of a scam.
I'd imagine so, yeah. It's hardly a new trend though. There also was a massive decline when George W Bush decided to head to Irak. And before that, there was enough mistrust -- indeed hatred -- in US policy to prompt nutjobs to conduct 9/11.
Or stop using Linux entirely and move to FreeBSD.
Or even better: A directive from the someone's ministry of education decreeing deunified Han in school books, so at least one country's pupils would actually learn to read deunified Han.

Now wouldn't that be fun: "When history textbooks coverthe civil war in 1927-50, they shall use traditional Chinese for the names of then KMT-held cities and simplified Chinese for the names of then communist-held cities."
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But they're not growing corn. I mean what would the NSA need water for ? Drinking ? Can't they just ship bottled water ? Do they really have that much personnel there ?
That's too bad. You could check out the Google spreadsheet at Whirlpool with all Australian mobile plans to see if you can find a better Telstra plan or one from another provider that uses Telstra's network.

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1572741
I don't accept that being irritated at 'radical change' (I'm not sure exactly how this is so radical, it's an init system, not a kernel.) because you're losing domain knowledge is a good reason. That would imply radical change is necessarily bad and should be avoided everywhere. Carriages to cars, ice houses to refrigeration, bow and arrow to black powder. Every single one of these radical changes required people to learn something vastly different. With your reasoning we should've waited longer for some intermediate technology to smooth the learning curve. People were getting really good at taking care of horses, now they need auto mechanics? Building an ice house was becoming a science, how do I fix leaking refrigerant? My aim and dexterity with a box is second to none, but now we're using guns? Now your first thought might be that all of those things are different than server admin, but are they really? I would suggest the only thing different for server admins is that it's entirely less radical of a change than all of these other technologies.

As for my comment being unwarranted, sysadmin'ing requires learning new tech. If there is an improvement on a tech such that it has mass adoption, learn the tech. It's your job. If you don't like it, change jobs. I'm not saying you should shut up and put up. However, we're far past that stage of valued input and people are still complaining. The decisions have pretty much been made that are going to be made concerning systemd adoption. Yet here I am, reading yet again how systemd was the wrong choice, even though rigorous debate was had and core teams decided it was the best decision. Even though this was the biggest drama piece since that blogger blasted linus for being rude. Here we are with 'radical change' in systemd.
If they really are emerald ores, you could pretty easily restrict the biome generation algorithm to only create extreme hills when there is money in the bank. I expect the "mobs are stronger the further away from spawn" is also meant to put a bit of a dampener on the rate you can grab them.
That's true, Google has very large codebases of C++, Java, and Javascript. But the C++ code base cross-compiled to JS via emscripten wouldn't help us much on Inbox since most of the interesting bits are very backend oriented.
The only tech I see from the MoleSkine side is the positioning of dots on the page. Adobe use these as guide marks for scanning, sizing and rotating.
I'm wondering how easy it would be to just draw the dots in the right place, and have the App scan your picture correctly.
If I were a UTAH politician pushing for this I would be very careful now,

You might just wake up one morning with a squad of armed policemen storming your house who will "find" child porn on your computer.
Not the parent poster, but it works the same way in Thailand. Here in Bangkok first 150 kWh are cheapest, 150-400 are more expensive and 400+ is the most expensive tier.
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Yes, the text is definitely not what interested readers should actually try to achieve, even if it motivated them to learn more.

I don't know about Linux 64-bit ABI limitations, but if you want the interoperable code in Win64, you should actually learn to not use push except in prologs, epilogs and leaf functions and even then the trickier part is to maintain the exception info consistent. So some other approaches are better to learn first.

drv, I also agree, it's highly inefficient making memory pressure n times 8 bytes on the new stack instead of simply accessing the bytes as they are, keeping the caches doing their job.
It's more like everyone knows Sievers is under Poettering's umbrella ever since the 'debug' kernel flag debacle wherein Kay was banned from contributing to the kernel, and then instead of addressing the issue himself, Poettering came out and made that infamous "the kernel is just an implementation detail" blog post to defend him... https://plus.google.com/+LennartPoetteringTheOneAndOnly/post...
They are individually I agree, but as a group of people it's not such a good story. It's quite dysfunctional from what I've seen.
What violent acts of capitalism are you referring to? I suppose there is exploitation in the "3rd world", but it is not clear how that is caused by capitalism. How would other economic systems prevent that kind of thing? Or is that rather a problem of law and policies?

I don't think capitalism = everything is allowed as long as it makes money. You are not allowed to kill people because it suits your business in most capitalist countries, for example.

Socialism managed to suck the whole Aral sea dry, so I don't think it has any inbuilt mechanisms to protect against exploitation.
"x" in Italian (Moleskine is an Italian company) stands for "per", which means for. It's shorthand for partnership round here.
Actually the answer is to be slightly more conservative with the approach. No one has to pick up systemd now for example. Leave it a year and see where it is. The technical merits will be obvious and the technical problems will also be.

Moving all the chess pieces at once, which is what is happening is not productive, professional or a sign of experience.
I didn't really like systemd initially, but know I'm more in the what-ever-its-fine camp.

Companies like RedHat clearly drives systemd adoption, because it solve problems for their customers, that would be large enterprise customers. Many of those who dislike systemd has simpler requirements, so systemd becomes some new they need to learn, but it doesn't provide them with any tangible benefits. They didn't see or care about many of the problem or features that systemd address.

Of cause you're going to be negative if a new system, one you didn't need is forced upon you. If you're happy with it you're most likely a large company that doesn't blog about systemd, especially if it's something that just works.

At least that's my take on it.