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Absolutely no idea. It just went away spontaneously which is even more worrying as that suggests the system is non-deterministic.

I don't have the error on my phone which I'm on at the moment but it threw a dbus error with no debug info.
And from the video linked in the Gizmodo article, Graeme Devine claims they don't call it AR because "that is just a 2D HUD", and that's why they insist on the weird marketing phrase "Cinematic Reality".

To me and most people who have been around AR for years it is very clear that registration of objects in 3D is a core part of a lot of AR experiences. That was the part of the video that struck me as most weird; that Magic Leap would make a lot of noise around AR and yet have a Creative Content VP seemingly so unaware of the existing AR field.
Your linear-gradient is broken in .home-section.features, so in Firefox you get white text on white background.
My progression was Vim -> Emacs -> Sublime. Funnily enough, on systems with no Sublime I still tend to use Vim.

It took me about a month of consciously making myself work in Emacs to get a hang of it. But I don't use any major features, like macros.

Emacs is awesome for Python indenting, for example, but when I switched to a less elaborate indenting convention, I kind of just drifted away from Emacs.
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I was rather unhappy when Samba took this approach as well, ages ago (mimicking the registry as a configuration store, not just as a hack to talk to Windows systems).
I have Time Warner Cable which is pretty decent service.

300mbit/20mbit. I could burn though 300gb in probably 2.26 to 2.5 hours.

125kb/1mbit300mbit/1sec = 125300 = 37,500kb/sec
300gb = 300gb1024mb/1gb = 307,200mb
307.2gb / 37.5mb/sec = 307,200mb 1sec/37.5mb = 8192sec
8921sec / 1min/60sec / 1hr/60min = 2.27hrs

So my whole months worth of bandwidth gone on 10 large video games.
This is ironic because you could apply the same statement to issues like open-source software, walled gardens and net neutrality. To the regular joe, the issues we talk about as developers on here hardly matter, yet as a people actually writing the software, we tend to be of the opinion that we know better.

I.e. re a typical speech by rms:

"Sorry, I admire his coding, but I call complete and utter bullshit on this speech. Programs are commodities, not some magical elixer from the gods. Some are good, some are terrible. I buy mine from Apple's or Google's app stores. New technologies, and they are helping more people to consume software than ever before."
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Isn't this a semantic argument? There's really not much of a difference between "getting rid of the NSA" and "reforming the NSA by kicking out anyone in any way involved in the spying scandals and drastically overhauling the rules and oversight." Either way, you're getting rid of anything recognizable as the current NSA, and it doesn't really matter what you call the new agency that performs the legitimate tasks that the NSA is supposed to perform.
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> There's always a vitriolic reaction in geek communities to usage-based billing

The vitrol is aimed at unreasonably high fees. Quite justifiably, I might add.
Again, you are making a lot of assumptions about the motivation of other people.

Some people crave the recognition a successful open source project gives.

Some want to learn something.

Some want to give a gift to the world.

Some don't want the hassle of supporting software.

Some believe "from each according to their ability, to each according to their need"
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- http://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/14_1120_...

Am I correct in thinking that this doesn't amount to anything big for H-1B holders who are seeking a green card? It will speed up the application process initially, those who were waiting along time will get their Green Card faster, but then it'll grind to halt until the following years quota comes into play. Am I missing something?
I was expecting more precise details.. For example we know that they want to increase the scope of STEM OPT program but we don't how long they gonna extend or if there are changes, will they apply to the candidates already in OPT. Its more like directives.. I am not sure if this is how executive action works ??

*edit: typos
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I'm not the author, just found it interesting. I'm sure you could find contact details on the authors site though.
Many large decisions have been made by idiots, badly. Blindly accepting consensus as a rational choice without a counterpoint had caused many years of suffering for the human race from wars to bad science to bad medicine.

Whilst I agree that the blog is probably hocum, there's nothing wrong with critical thinking.
Is the internet diamonds and the other utilities water...?

If you compare the standard usage of water for bathing and electricity for whatever to the standard usage of the internet, the internet will (according to revelation) be more expensive.

I'd say that, to some degree, you couldn't even claim the paradox of value because the internet is becoming such an integral part of our lives. We use it to pay taxes, work our 9-5 jobs, medical advice, etc.

Kind of like how technically we don't need natural gas or electricity -- we could just use wood-burning fireplaces. But at what point does that become so excessive that we view it like water as opposed to diamonds?

Anyway, I'm getting off track here, but I think revelation's example is pretty decent depending on which angle you take.
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Need to recommend as resource to startups I am consulting. My knowledge is gathered over the years from Internet. What are some of the books you would recommend for a new & budding entrepreneurs looking for a primer on topics - angelist, accelerators, angel funding, VC funding, termsheets, market evaluation, convertible notes, etc etc. A all reference guide, may not deeply cover each of these topics.
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One thing I like about Amazon is their large selection of classics like this, formatted for the Kindle, at $0.00.
As if syslog cannot go belly up as well.
Out of curiosity, have you considered migrating to LDAP?
Sorry, in topics I wrongly put "angelists" it should be "angels"
The United States somehow managed to survive for 176 years without the NSA. The country could probably get along well enough without them, if it had to.
Or leave the light on to download Torrents?
The only sysadmin I know with an actual neckbeard (over a foot long) is a 20-year unix/linux admin, and he greatly favours systemd.

Perhaps if you're tired of neckbeards speaking for all sysadmins, you should return the favour and not declare what all neckbeards are saying. A lot of old, experienced admins are for systemd. It's not the young go-getters who are at the top level of distros making the foundational architectural decisions, after all.
It would be awesome if it showed popular tags for a repo rather than having to manually tag each one. Maybe it does have that feature and i just star obscure repos
Nintendo like closed - the "Seal of Quality" approval is what they perceive as dragging gaming back out of the Atari-induced crash of '84. Of course it's been 30 years since then, but they're still very hot on control - for example they won't have The Binding of Isaac even though it'd probably sell pretty well because it's "blasphemous".

I don't see it happening, ever, without a major culture shift there.
Didn't notice, sorry.
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I also don't believe any sysv implementation had crash recovery or socket activation of daemons, both of which are huge feature wins.

That's because there were other components handling those tasks, like inetd and /etc/inittab. I do like having Upstart handle respawning for me, though.
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The problem is, only one person has to figure out how to build it, then if it's real free and open source software, they're legally allowed to distribute their own unofficial builds over the internet. The original XChat developer decided that it was too much effort to develop XChat for Windows, so he charged for it, which resulted in silverex's free X-Chat 2 builds and the HexChat fork.

I don't think users respond well to this either. You're essentially splitting your userbase into a group of people who know enough to build it themselves and receive it for free, and a group that have to pay, and I don't think people in the latter group appreciate being in that group.
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The author is never forced to use a later version. "Version 2 of the GPL or any later version" simply means that distributor (other than the author) can choose between using gplv2, gplv3, gplv4 and so on.

The author is always free pick any license of their choosing for work that they have themselves has authored.
Indeed. My point is that it's the author's choice, not the end user's.
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Mmmm I did my first $49 with an sponsor that I get for http://petithacks.com A website where I curate small hacks & tricks companies do to get more of your time, of your attention, of your money.

Nothing spectacular, I know. I started to get some traffic (28K visits so far) 1 month ago after being featured in ProductHunt, SmashingMagazine, SitePoint, etc.

Still trying to figure it out what I could do with the 1,4k signups I have.
That's probably a wrong choice, too, for most Linux users (though there are some reasons a reasonable, and technically competent, person might choose an Illumos system, if you're doing it because a random crank on the Internet tells you to, you probably don't know enough to understand those reasons and the quite large tradeoffs you'd be making).

Regardless, it's one example of many where the author exhibits a very poor grasp of...well, everything he talks about. Dunning-Kruger effect is funny that way.
> So your 100 meg line has a "cost" of $100 for shit-tier transit

Wholesale rates from quality providers are about $0.30 per Mbps per month at 95th percentile. For paid transit, that is, and Comcast does a lot of peering which brings the cost down for them.

So that's $30 per month for your 100M line, even if you run it full tilt all month and manage to hit only paid transit routes all the time. That's not too bad and most people use only a small fraction of their theoretical monthly throughput.
Even from a hardcore free market perspective, you can't really say books are a commodity, insofar as they they have limited substitutability. There is no way to make up for quality with volume. You can't just take a masterpiece of human literature and say: "Suppose the Ulysses was never written by James Joyce, well I can just have the same utility by producing 10^9 pages of teen Twilight fan fiction".
It looks awful but capitalized, asterisk filled subject lines do get a better response. I have A/B tested a lot of open rates.
That's fairly common. German prices include 19% sales tax.
> One thing I've realized about the Linux community through all this systemd flame warring is how unbelievably conservative a large subsection of it is. There's this huge so-called "neckbeard" continent that views anything architecturally beyond the 1980s as a huge affront to Unix.

Fully agree. It seems some people are quite happy with a few xterms in the X-Windows replicating a twm user experience, stuck in the past.

I would also add Oberon, Active Oberon, Singularity, Verve and the current unikernel/library OS research.

> OS I still feel is hiding behind the JVM

Android kind of got us there. Now with Java being compiled to native code, maybe other C++ layers might be replaced in future versions, given how Android team looks at the NDK.

All in all, I want the Xerox PARC and Douglas Engelbart's visions, not the AT&T one.
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http://www.businessinsider.com/read-these-books-before-pitch...

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/233076

https://www.ycombinator.com/resources/
TextWrangler is my default text editor in OS X and I haven't noticed this. Do I have to enable it in some way?
Systemd is too much, but often busybox is not enough. Plus if everything starts conforming to systemd, busybox will have to become like systemd to stay compatible.
> I think you need to consider the target audience of the presentation - it's for people who want to start high-growth tech companies that will raise venture capital.

Correction: it's for people who have been convinced (or are in the process of being convinced) that they're starting high-growth tech companies that will raise venture capital.

Just because you immerse yourself in Silicon Valley culture and create a "startup" does not mean you actually have a high-growth business, or that you're going to raise capital from institutional investors. The vast majority of "startups" never achieve high growth, and venture firms reject far more companies than they fund. If you have a great business worth funding, no institutional investor is going to walk because you may need to revisit entity selection.

> I'd also just point out that telling people to just incorporate in their state of residence is no less boilerplate advice than telling people to incorporate in Delaware :)

I didn't advise that founders incorporate in their state of residence. I stated that this is the simplest option. And it is. That doesn't mean there aren't situations in which the simplest option is not the best option, but if you're going to rule out the simplest option, you should understand why doing so makes sense.
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It hardly does anything for FreeBSD in the enterprise world. Companies cannot afford to support Windows Server, Linux AND another flavor of UNIX (FreeBSD). They are already dumping Solaris/AIX/HP-UX as much as they can so environments are a bit more homogeneous (and easier to support). There is no point in onboarding FreeBSD for what they perceive as minor technical differences (that, truth be told, are overshadowed by dozens of layers of bureaucracy and any efficiency benefit is completely lost).

It took a long time and a giant ecosystem to get where Linux is today at big enterprises. OSes are commodities in that space. They are not commodities in many other spaces though (e.g. startups, HPC, science, etc).
Apple's website is just getting worse and worse...
Think of anything that isn't a web server, file server, database server, or desktop.
It works that way in California for households using PG&E, Southern California Edison, or San Diego Gas and Electric Company [1].

Same up here in Washington for service to a single family residence through a single meter for customers of PSE [2].

[1] http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/NR/rdonlyres/6AF20251-011C-4EF2-B99D-...

[2] https://pse.com/aboutpse/Rates/Documents/elec_sch_007.pdf
And if syslog goes belly up no logs. What's your point?
Using sane/standard logging should be the first thing an installer asks before installing systemd based OS. In fact, just make separate .isos for this.

(and I like systemd, at least in theory - and running Fedora 20).
Yes, the API of ROOT really is terrible in many places. A gradual change is the only way to fix it however since any sharp break will only cause fragmentation.
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The Apps (+ Ads, Android, Social, & DevTools) side of Google is a Java-oriented company. Search, Geo, Infrastructure, and Chrome are all very much C++-oriented. (Inbox is very much an Apps project, so of course they would lean toward a Java stack.)
It seems to be in these legal areas that people expose what's really important to them. Sadly sometimes that means finding out people you thought were friends are capable of toxic things, even when you have written agreements. It can be a tough thing to learn, but I'd bet you are better off for learning it.
Goes to show 'password' is a total misnomer that encourages bad security practice.
AFAIK, it was never up in the eShop anywhere but Japan, where it (is going to be/has been) pulled.
Since HN is not transparent about downvoting, other than that only certain users have the ability - I'd love the feedback on the reasons for the down votes.

How a country could exist without an organization that pays attention to what the rest of the world is up to towards the goal of keeping itself "secure" is beyond me. What I wrote was a fictional circumstance which I thought explained to others how you'd arrive at this conclusion - i.e. answering the question that was asked.
> What hacker chooses to be beholden to Oracle ?

How about almost every single Java, Scale, Clojure etc developer. We are all using Oracle's JVM and they have been unquestionably a fantastic steward of the Java platform. I know the company deserves a lot of criticism but remember it is a big company with many different departments.
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It survived 158 years without an FCC but we still eventually needed that.
> This is why lasers are very popular for communications: a concentrated beam can deliver a very high signal-to-noise ratio. With LEDs, it's tougher because the beam is dispersed and you don't want to blind people with high power output

I suppose I am missing something obvious... but laser beams are shaped into a beam by way of a lens at the end of a tube, right? The laser diodes I've seen emit light in all directions. You could just as well stick an LED at the bottom of that tube.
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I'd like to know what the practical applications are for tracking bubbles. Is it used in a production process, and/or in a lab? What for?
Here's Matt Levine's take: http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-11-20/the-goldman...

I partially agree with him. It's a bizarre situation and created distortion in the market, but it doesn't seem to be a GS conspiracy.
I'm getting stuck on the sign in page. After authorizing the app with Github, there's a black box that appears and the Sign In button shows up again.

Edit: Looks like the server is 500ing, according to the Javascript console.
You're allowed to take up to $10,000 into the US without declaring it, I believe. I'm guessing they sent her to the room because they were afraid she was trying to illegally immigrate and just complaining about the money to try and rattle her. Some of the horror stories about US Customs are so ridiculous.

When I came back from China last year through Toronto, they sent me to the room because they thought I was bringing food (even though I didn't declare any nor did I have any). Luckily the guy in the room there was more reasonable and let me go quickly without a hassle. Going through customs as an American is terrifying enough...can't imagine being a non-American.

There's a lot of good and bad about America. Unfortunately customs is on the bad sad often times...which happens to be the first impression a lot of people get of the country.
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> The decision about where to incorporate shouldn't just be about taxes - you're signing up for a body of corporate law and procedure and the differences can have a big impact. And CA vs DE is just night and day in terms of user-friendliness.

I never suggested the entity selection issue boiled down to taxes and taxes alone.

You seem to be under the impression that matters of corporate law are a lot simpler than they actually are. This article[1] explains why that's not always the case. Bottom line: incorporating a California-based business in Delaware doesn't necessarily allow you to avoid the California Corporations Code.

If you operate a startup based in California, the majority of which is owned by California residents, you are absolutely not going to see your legal costs reduced by incorporating your California-based business in Delaware.

[1] http://www.lexisnexis.com/legalnewsroom/corporate/b/business...
Maybe it would be good for people suffering from wifi interference.
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FWIW, the page is a bit messed up in IE11 on Windows Phone: http://1drv.ms/14VI93Z

Awesome work!
I don't see how you can say that. We know that around 95% of their overall customers use more than 5 GB, but that's not really relevant since this deal is not being offered to the overall customer base. It is only being offeree to people on the Economy Plus plan, which is the very bottom tier plan (3 mbps).

Generally, heavy data users go for faster plans, and so the very low data users should be disproportionately concentrated in the Economy Plus plan.

I don't understand why most people in the discussion here and on Reddit are overlooking that this is only for Economy Plus customers.
Glad to retract the first sentence of that if it hurt your feelings, but honestly how do you envision running/protecting a country without an organization with a similar mission statement in the modern world?

I'm a peaceful person, but not all of the world is. You just can't ignore that. Even if you're Switzerland, you don't want to essentially keep your ears open for people sending coded messages about their potential plans to bomb Switzerland?
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Isn't this Covey's quadrants all over again?!

http://www.eitanbirshan.com/blog/time-management-covey%E2%80...
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Would you then say that 'The C Programming Language' are 'Structure and Interpretation of Programming Languages' are commodities, no better or worse than the dozens of alternatives?
While I agree with you that much of our foreign policy causes us problems, I see that as orthogonal to the need for such defense even if we were to change said policy(ies.)
At the end of the day, you really have to trust your cofounders. Betrayals happen but you can't found a company with people you don't trust.

A cliff still makes sense in cases when a cofounder abandons a start-up and stops working. Maybe the safest way for everyone involved is to only apply cliffs for the first 3 months or in the case of voluntary departure. That still leaves room for abuse but at least the temptation is more limited.

I'm sure the folks at YC have experience with just about every permutation of this scenario. I wish the video had also covered protecting the founders on the other side of a split up.
Haha, well its running but not quite right, if it saves me any face it worked out of the box in KDE!
"Because it has almost no atmosphere to retain heat, Mercury's surface experiences the greatest temperature variation of all the planets, ranging from 100 K (−173 °C; −280 °F) at night to 700 K (427 °C; 800 °F) during the day at some equatorial regions." — From Wikipedia.

That doesn't really sound like pleasent temperature fluctuations or something that is easy to work with?
> I'm quite happy to be a part of the development team for GNU Guix, a distro that is not using systemd.

Thank you for doing this :) I love systemd myself, but I still think it's important to have alternatives available; also it makes me very happy to see somebody creating their own choice instead of tearing down other people's choices :D
Fair enough. I haven't followed Java in many years (long before the Oracle acquisition), so I don't have any point of reference. In my mind, and in my experience, Oracle make Microsoft seem like pretty nice guys.
> It's essentially redoing the traditional Linux approach

It seems like that's part of their mission statement, given comments like this: "Some day, we will have turned the old crap into a real operating system. :)﻿" -- Kay Sievers (https://plus.google.com/+TomGundersen/posts/eztZWbwmxM8)