skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quest to Build a Mind-Warping 4-D Videogame
They (BitQuest) advertise the "Stores" which apparently have "some incredible weapons and armor". And they are explicitly denominating in BTC and hooked up to a system for accepting BTC payments.

Both of which seem to fall afoul of the Mojang post.
I'd like to point out that logind can be used without systemd using systemd-shim. So you can use fully featured GNOME without systemd.
I think we pay more in the USA, because ISP's charge the "middle class" based on the its ability to pay, rather than some reasonable markup of the cost to provide the service. With families paying $150+ / month for cellular service and $100+ for cable television, customers are used to paying another $50 / month for 20 Mbps down, 1 Mbps up internet service. And of course, more for "premium" internet service
Where do you get UNIX-haters? I read systemd haters which begets Linux haters but UNIX? No.

Besides, Linux is no longer a UNIX-like system. Linux is now only Linux unto itself with UNIX-similarities.
If I remember correctly, you're always allowed to start the first insult. Pick an insult you don't know the answer to. Hopefully your opponent knows the correct response. If he does, you learn a new response to an insult. If he doesn't, you win that round. That means you will advance a bit, and the enemy retreats a bit. If you win enough rounds (insult - retort), you win the fight. Win enough fights and you get to play against the sword-master, who knows all the insults and reponses.
If there is one thing that HN has taught me it's not to make broad, hyperbolic statements just because I don't like something; especially if it is a divisive issue. There is always a "moron4hire" who will rip you a new one (and rightly so).
There is also Transducers Explained [1] if you are familiar with JavaScript.

(Shameless plug in the hope it may be helpful to someone)

[1]: http://simplectic.com/blog/2014/transducers-explained-1/
In a suit with a palm-sized map this man cycled across Iceland
Many of the challenges Prasher faced were hardly unique to him. Scientific opportunities often appear only at specific times and places, potentially a serious impediment for a parent who doesn’t want to relocate the family. Do your work in the wrong place, or publish it in the wrong journal, and it may vanish without a trace. And once someone drops out of science, it is hard to get back in.

Bad timing/luck was compounded by the fact that he was a bit of a loner and not driven to follow through on that area of research, even when given the opportunity to do so.

One other issue that this story brings up: There are a lot of out-of-work postdocs and PhDs, owing to the major reduction in funding/grant opportunities and the consolidation taking place in certain industries, such as pharma. A very talented science blogger who covers this (as well as biochemistry research) is Derek Lowe -- I recommend bookmarking his blog at http://www.pipeline.corante.com/
Gridstack.js – Drag-and-Drop Multi-Column Grid
AutoHiDPI seems to look at the width of the active window rather than the size of the screen. This behavior seems like a bug.
Poor headline: The article has nothing to do with either Darwinism or natural selection. The subject is a novel approach to the "epistemic" and "ontic" problems of quantum mechanics, one aspect of which is a Darwin-inspired concept of information dissemination and selection by observers of quantum states.

Not a bad read, really, an intriguing approach. Always nice to know that there are serious researchers dissatisfied with the Copenhagen Interpretation and searching for more.
This is my favorite game ever! This is one of the best parts of Monkey Island of course, so I thank whoever created and shared this. I just wish they brought back "The Curse of Monkey Island" for iPhone and iPad some day..
That's really not a terrible idea actually. I switch back and forth a lot between the Windows and the Unixy ecosystems and by far the best end user experience, tailored[1] developer experience and (I'm going to get slated for this), mobile experience is on Windows by far.

[1] tailored as in platform specific. For cross platform stuff, it's not so good.
Upstart was tested enough to ship in RHEL6.
It does not mean it works perfectly and has no bugs.

But systemd IS NOT only an init system.

So if systemd 208 (until 213) by default saves the core files in the journal and your core file is bigger that what systemd devs decided was appropriate in a .c file (around 768MB, IIRC), you lose it. That is _inacceptable_.

And while we (=the company i work for) still have not officially started our evaluation of the platform, if RHEL7(.0) does not have this bug fixed then I will be strongly against supporting it officially, since in case of crash we would not be able to get or pass up to the devs the core file for analysis.
Validating the Performance Impact of Enabling APC (Alternative PHP Cache)
>I've asked this out in the open before and always got blank stares and crazy looks, but how hard/expensive would it be to start your own neighborhood ISP and peer directly with a backbone?

The technical parts are fairly straightforward, what gets hard/expensive is the legal, permiting, construction part.

> What's the up-front investment required and how many users at what price point would be needed to make it reasonable or profitable?

As the old adage goes, if you have to ask then you can't afford it...

> I guess the main problem is still transport to the premises...

Exactly. Rule of thumb is that 90% of network costs are in the last mile and most of those costs are in the last few yards.
Wii and ds shovelware wasn't exactly better.
When have you ever seen syslog go belly up?
Game developers don't traditionally think about their games in terms of DPI. Think about it: a game is played on a TV ot Monitor that can display 1920x1080 pixels, but what size is it? 23" diagonal? 30" diagonal? .. etc.

Game developers these days usually think of a PC or console game display in terms of pixel count and aspect ratio, not DPI
How fast will V8 be after the asm.js issue is resolved?
I think you're missing the key difference. It converts the image to an SVG. I see zero mention of that with the Evernote version. This is HUGE for anyone who wants to actually use the image rather than just have a cloud based copy of it.
Why do you say that, I quite enjoyed it, way way back... :D
I was tempted to get one of these digital pens
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wacom-Inkling-Digital-Sketch-Pen/dp/...

But I've read slightly mixed reviews about them? Anyone used one?
Just look at this very thread - there are numerous posts trashing the "old ways" of UNIX.

It has been a common thread throughout the systemd mess. Lennart himself is very strongly outspoken against any use of shell scripting (not just in init).
How the soundscape of stores influence our purchases
Tweet-a-Program Mandelbrot Code Challenge
Redditor here. It was about time.

tips fedora

Edit: why the downvotes? Please upvote for visibility.

Edit2: come on guys, 4 downvotes, why? Explain before blatantly downvoting.
Not surprising. This played out in Canada back in 1999/2000 in a similar fashion:

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICraveTV

- http://archive.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/1999/12/33093

- http://news.cnet.com/2100-1033-237450.html

ICraveTV was less ambitious than Aereo as well, as it had no DVR functionality, and it still got taken into the courts until they gave up.
You're missing the point: there was no networking (outside of UUCP and dial-up connnections) in 1978 Unix, so there were large classes of functionality since added which simply didn't exist.

What 1978 Unix did have was security and authentication. The OS was multi-user from the very beginning -- hence the pun in the name: uniplexing operating system (Dennis and Ken created a two-user OS to play Space Traveller).

As Bruce Perens recently discussed in a set of comments at LWN, the first thing he did as DPL of Debian was decentralize the management of Debian packaging. He recommends a very similar process for Systemd. The Systemd proponents in that discussion aren't particularly taken with the idea.

http://lwn.net/Articles/621022/

It's not a matter of fear mongering when the stated goals and practices of Systemd are to intentionally break compatibility with other Unixen, to reject compatibility patches, and to provide "choice" in the form of allowing users the option of any Linux distro on which they can run systemd:

http://imgur.com/r/linux/Is9vjRJ

As Jon Corbet noted at LWN in his Grumpy Editor post on the topic, it would greatly behoove systemd leadership and proponents to demonstrate a modicum of gracious victory.

As for Debian's governance, that process has been more than slightly troubled of late, with at least four key departures (Joey Hess, Ian Jackson, Russ Allbery, and Tollef Fog Heen), only in the past couple of weeks. The cabal question was raised by former DPL Bruce Perens in the LWN post linked above. And, frankly, no, I haven't been happy with the recent directions of Debian's Technical Committee of late. Joey Hess's resignation (as well as those of Ian and Russ) calls into question more than just the specific decisions, but the process as a whole.

Your attempts to smear my own comments which are based on actual events, facts, and highly considered views of those with deep and broad experience in the field is, I'm really sorry to say, far too typical of what I see from systemd proponents (the attacks on Perens in the LWN thread strike a pretty similar tenor).

Something is sick in this process. That more than anything is what's bothering me about it, though I've also grave doubts over the technical direction.
The hardware is known good on CentOS 6.5. In fact it was high end HP kit that we pulled out of production.

Yes there were other mentions of it with notes to it being fixed in a later systemd drop, which we can't deploy because RH/CentOS don't ship it. I think one of our guys raised a case with RH but I was dragged off onto something else then.
I live for 2 months out of the year on a completely metered Verizon data plan (mifi). Managing it with our home business (small biz web design) and 2 connected kids is ... a royal pain to say the least.

When we arrive the routine goes like this:

Airplane mode for all phones/tablets unless in use
Turn off Dropbox syncing (all devices)
Turn off Backblaze (cost us about $100 in data last time we forgot to completely disable)
iOS updates for our 4 smartphones? Wait until we return home
Disable app updates (some are several hundred MB)
No Pandora/Sirius streaming or audio streaming of any kind
Limited Netflix/Video streaming (only for must watch shows)
No large FTP transfers (common for our industry)
No Facetime (our kids use)
Schedule Dropcam power to turn off at night
Block podcast downloads within iTunes
The list goes on....

So basically every day you check, and recheck your data use to "catch" any device or service that may be using too much data. When family visits and the number inside the house reaches 6-10 the monthly data cap is blown in just a few days.

And our data cap is not a measly 5GB or even 10GB a month, it can easily reach 40-50GB which costs a relative fortune.

If you look at the list of accommodations above, you'll see a nice collection of US businesses (Apple, Dropbox, Pandora etc.) for whom I can't do business with in a "metered" world.

I can deal with this for 2 months out of my year, but if my home residential Internet was also metered like this our involvement online would be dramatically changed.
Linux Torvalds said he would never have created Linux is FreeBSD was available at the time. And the only reason it wasn't available is because it was embroiled in a lawsuit over embedded ATT UNIX code back in the 1990s(?).
This looks great! Any plans to port this to Windows?

I am not a massive fan of the background colour of the landing page, it makes the text slightly hard to read. The rest of the page design looks good though.

> any device that supports a web browser, no dedicated client software needed!

The demo seems to be down at the moment so I can't see, why would you need to download anything if that is the case?

(Shameless plug: I made http://playlistful.com/about which is similar to this, but you can't listen to the music on more than device at the same time. That's a feature I really want to add, but I can't get my head around keeping the songs in sync.)
Show HN: Nested selective sync comes to Google Drive
<blockquote>"Capitalism" is a system in which people are allowed to exchange and accumulate goods freely.</blockquote>

That's what the word means. But our capitalism? The one we have? It's not that. It's not optimal. It's not efficient. It's not even fair.

But then, the then-accepted concept of "Divine Right of Kings" was never what it purported to be either, was it?
It's unclear to me why Linux running on a retina mac wouldn't have the same resolution problems as Linux running on PC hardware with a similar display.
Why you said that when a lot of large enterprise are very actively investing in ? Can you tell more details ?
Tips fedora and upvote for visibility? Oh boy.
Have a looks at http://www.thoughtworks.com/radar
The two are related.

People are shipping production operating systems with systemd that is chock full of bugs.

An all consuming tentacle monster like systemd is fine if you want to dogfood it but to throw at paying customers and/or supporters of your distribution is a little off key.
Any (cheaper) alternative to this? Not that it is that expensive,but I want to offer 5/10 of these as gifts,so I wonder if there are cheaper alternative systems available in Europe.

Looks great anyway.
That is our inside joke. My fellow redditors will understand.
You're being downvoted because your comment adds nothing to the conversation. Hacker news tries to maintain a high signal to noise ratio.
> They are already dumping Solaris/AIX/HP-UX as much as they can so environments are a bit more homogeneous (and easier to support).

Whoever is pushing for this is an idiot then. Verisign, for example, has had 100% DNS uptime for the .net, .org, and .com root servers for ~15 years because of their mixed environments. In every one of their POPs they tend to have at least two racks of equipment with:

* 2 different brands of load balancers
* 2 different brands of firewalls
* 2 different brands of switches
* 2 different brands of servers
** servers are from different hardware generations
* 2 different OSes (Linux and FreeBSD)
* a choice from 3 different DNS server software

This is all pretty much randomized at each location. As a result, a bug in one piece of the stack (hardware, software, driver, security, etc) will not take down their service completely.

This is how you run a reliable global-scale service. Anyone who plays the "it's just easier if we all use ____" is in for a big surprise when their entire infrastructure is at risk due to one bug.
She's very good, but great? I don't know about that. I've really enjoyed many of her books, but at heart they seem to me to be the books of an author who isn't particularly conscious of her privilege level in the world. Furthermore she never really seemed to move beyond a very American-centric strain of 60s radical politics in her thinking and aesthetics.

If you're a certain type of American, I'm sure you could be convinced that she's a truly rich and resounding thinker. People on the other side of that fence would probably wish she was interested in speaking to the whole human audience.
Complaining and crying from a system admin perspective is pretty significant.
OpenStack Congress, Policy for Your Cloud
Shall Google be still tracking me?

Because they had said they track me to show me those ads and now that I've paid them to remove those ads, I hope they can stop tracking me, shall they?
It seems to me that OpenBSD stands for everything you want in OS dev, except maybe point 3, Theo seems really at the center of everything.
Resolution growth didn't really stop. It's just that vertical resolution growth took a huge backseat to horizontal res growth for a decade or so. I guess since vertical growth didn't really occur, there was little need for UI scaling.
The best case for aereo was that they used their hack of the copyright system to eventually lobby to change the laws and become "legit". IMO there were always pretty slim chances of that happening.
Still sad though, I hate the current copyright system as much as anyone.
it's fixing some longstanding bugs with sysvinit

Honest question: I've been using sysvinit for a very long time and I have no concept of what those bugs might be.
Why We Post Nothing About Our Daughter Online
Inside jokes, +1, etc are usually considered as noise and are religiously downvoted.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You're probably genuinely confused about why you're getting downvotes, and I'm sorry about that. Hacker News, like any group, has a particular culture. If you're brave enough to stick around after the onslaught you're getting right now you'll find that posts that are longer and more thoughtful tend to be appreciated much more than short drive-by comments. For example, you might have explained why "it was about time" -- was there anything in their business practices that you particularly disagree with, or did you just mean that this seemed inevitable after losing in the Supreme Court?
Redditor here. I think this just goes to show how fighting the copyright system is futile. Better focus on doing the right things instead of doing things right.

tips fedora
At Microsoft we called this "Red Time / Green Time". I had a card on my door that I could flip to either color. If the card was set to the red side people wouldn't interrupt me. If it was green it was fine to just walk in and start talking. We were required to have a certain amount of green time each day.
Most people use underscore/lodash for this stuff. The difference is that the js transducers libraries don't create intermediate arrays, only do enough work to produce the requested output, and work on top of anything that can be coerced into the iteration protocol. I've seen demos of using Facebook's Immutable JS, CSP.js [1], and I don't see why you couldn't put them on top of Typed Arrays or a FRP library like Kefir.

[1] http://jlongster.com/s/nationjs-slides/
Alien Life Could Flourish on Planets Without Water, Researchers Say
Cooling machines?
MathML was important, because the only alternative was webEQ or other things that turned the equations into pictures.

I would write equations in the openoffice equation editor and run an awk script on them. Tedious, but I'm not repulsed by such things.
I listened to a talk by an Aereo exec at SXSW and he made it clear then that there was no plan B. This was an all or nothing fight.

Unfortunately the Supreme Court squashed them, but they really could have changed the world had the ruling gone the other way. ABC, NBC, CBS, and all the other broadcast networks would have had to change their business model and adapt or slowly die like the Blockbusters of the world.

Despite the fact that it didn't work out, I respect teams like this with ambitious goals that put everything on the line without compromise. Kudos to the team and investors that supported Aereo.
Cargo gives you exactly this, btw: if you don't want to change the version of upstream code on which you depend, don't run `cargo update`. (This applies to both git dependencies and registry dependencies.)
Stay relevant. Be competitive. Keep your skill set up-to-date
I'm also a reddit user.

The problem is your post is contentless, and adds nothing to the conversation.

I also notice on Reddit, where there X1000 replies to a post, %90 of them are "me too" or variants on that. So, I end up reading Reddit's main tech forums, but come here to post.

* Well, except this: http://hackaday.com/2014/11/18/thalmic-labs-shuts-down-free-... ~~ Thalmic is banned to be discussed in HN. So I posted it there instead.
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ebook readers for people with A4 needs

I don't understand what you mean by this. Could you explain?
To answer the question the Topic proposed. asm.js seems to roughly give a 2x to 6x performance boost over standard java script. Baring implementation, algorithm, etc.

This is one bench mark that appeared in the thread: https://v8.googlecode.com/issues/attachment?aid=25990016000&...
That's not quite accurate. Republicans are all about their personal liberty, at the cost of yours and mine. It's not that surprising that some Republicans favor cutting the NSA's water, it's just bitterly ironic.
French host builds bare metal arm server cloud
It looks like we have some trolls in here. Not very good ones.
reading PDFs and other stuff with a fixed page is a pain on a kindle, it's ok on larger tablets but then those don't have ePaper.

Many people would love to be able to read PDF for books, scholar articles and journals in an ereader with a size big enough for an A4 sheet.
Yep. If the article would have been linked under this sentence instead of the clickbaity "Say No" I would've saved time and energy today by not reading about this annoyingly simple notion.
Imo Linux, KDE and most other software works nicely with HiDPI.

A small issue is GTK apps that don't respect DPI settings.

The most significant problem AFAIK is for people who switch frequently between different displays. There are a few settings here and there you have to adjust every time you switch between Hi and Lo-DPI.
Somehow this reminds me of REAMDE by Neal Stephenson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reamde).
Google Chrome and the future of Virtual Reality
Yes, I could live with a flat per-GB charge. The caps and "overage" penalties are what is annoying. Why do companies set their customers up to feel like they are doing something "wrong" by using more of their services?

WAY back when cell phones were first getting popular I got one through my employer. It was a personal phone, but they allowed employees to get personal phones through their business plan. I paid a very modest monthly flat fee and then $0.10/minute for usage. No caps. $0.10/minute for voice sounds absurd today but then it was quite reasonable and the costs were completely predictable.
The 3 Key Lessons from Apple's Mac App Store Troubles