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I completely agree – but critical thinking involves something along the lines of "here are the things that I think are wrong, this is why I think they're wrong, this is how I think they could be solved."

The answer "let's throw everything out" isn't that useful; likewise, dismissing the considered opinion of lots of people who have been doing this sort of thing for a while needs to be done with some rationality. An empty, bandwagon-jumping appeal like this adds little value and just helps spread more misinformation.
Thanks. I don't think it changes my point - various attempts were made to implement this feature since Freebsd 6 - almost 9 years ago, for some reason these were incomplete or ignored.

FreeBSD 10 was released only this year. For reference, Heroku began in 2007, using resource limits with LXC... a whopping 7 years ago.
> If that's so, it's highly unlikely we'll be able to poke any holes in it. Nor is there any reason to believe our memories or any of history is real. Maybe scientists have poked holes in the simulation a million times, and each time, the supreme Code Monkey suspends the simulation, fixes the bug, and rolls back the state to before the hole was poked

I suggest you track down and read the Asimov short story "The Last Answer". I think you will enjoy it. It deals with a similar situation to what you describe, although not quite in the context of a universe simulation.
My downvote was because you led off with an unnecessary personal insult to a new user in response to a polite and legitimate question. He created an account a week and a half ago, has made a few high quality comments (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8614442), and I wouldn't want to see your rudeness drive him off, or worse, encourage him or others to respond in kind. The rest of your response was on-topic and well-argued, although like some of the others I think you might be unnecessarily equating the need for the NSA as a separate agency to the need for any form of foreign intelligence gathering.
British Columbia, where hydroelectricity is cheap and plentiful, has a two-tier structure like that. The cut-off isn't exactly 1000 kWh, of course.

The logic is that the utility company plans for generating a "usual" baseline amount, and peaks and use beyond anticipated "norm" are more expensive since you have to spin up/buy additional capacity. In B.C. at least the tiers are set up so that the first category will cover most "average" use.

Also in many places electricity prices are government-regulated to a greater or smaller extent, and a government might structure pricing like that to try to reduce overall energy use or subsidize the lowest users who might be presumed to be poorest.
Yeap, hats off to author (Paul Ford).
> Source?

http://amazon.com/ip-transit

Just kidding. Seriously though, you are not going to see wholesale rates posted on a website. Contact your bandwidth provider and ask for a quote. For serious volumes and good pricing, expect to sign an NDA.

However, to give you an idea of lowend pricing here are some examples from FDCservers. This is not an endorsement, just a site with easily accessible prices that I could remember off the top of my head. In fact, I emphatically do not recommend them. There are much better providers both in terms of price and quality.

Remember 0.1 cents per GB equals about $0.30 per Mbps.

Asymmetrical 100G at $0.15 per Mbps
https://fdcservers.net/ip-transit.php

Metered 10G at $0.60 per Mbps
https://fdcservers.net/colocation.php

Unmetered 10G including server $500
https://fdcservers.net/dedicated-servers.php
>They often don't even know why/when they enabled those other repos or who operates them.

Most likely because they either blindly followed instructions from a website or blindly ran an install script from a website, giving it root access. In which case it is basically equivalent to curl + pipe.
Explain to me why this is wrong: the last mile is what costs a ton to ISPs (much less than what Comcast charges though) to build and maintain. So why would you make it more expensive for people to use their personal pipe, which just stands there anyway?

You know what, let's do that usage-based billing, the difference between 5GB and 300GB would be about 1%, because of the small cost of the shared pipe. This is just more bullshit from Comcast, unheard of anywhere else on this planet.

Maybe I'm biased, but I can't see where I went wrong.
Why is cargo not bundled with my rust install?
802.15 WPAN - It's kinda stalled for some time.
And UWB really did get good press with some very promising features / performance back in the day.

If I remember they ended up using it in some system for firefighters that can 'see' through walls, and it might've been used for such a system in the army as well.

But overall UWB didn't deliver on it's promise.
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for me it seems that most people complaining/crying out loud come from a system admin perspective.

For example the author of this blog article does not seem to have contribute a lot of code to any project and is more "just" an admin and not a dev.

for me it looks like they don't like new stuff love the linux world how they knew it and don't want things to get easier or even change.
We are all using Oracle's JVM…hey have been unquestionably a fantastic steward of the Java platform

That is debatable. First off, we're not all using Oracle's JVM :) It's also not at all clear that Oracle has been "a fantastic steward of the Java platform." They don't appear to have totally wrecked it, but that's a low bar for "fantastic."
"Capitalism" is a system in which people are allowed to exchange and accumulate goods freely. Moving to a system "outside of capitalism" involves preventing this, and necessarily involves large scale violence both to take the accumulated capital of savers and to persecute anyone who still seeks to engage in the free exchange of goods. See for example the merchants in Maoist China and Stalinist Russia who were hung or shot for being capitalist traitors, and the landowners who were exiled or killed. It was literally illegal to own a shop, or to grow or make something and exchange it for something else.
No, not if it means spying on allies or even enemies.

My feelings are not going to get hurt over an internet comment. And you were downvoted because your response to me was over-the-top condescending. I took the bait and made an inflammatory response in return, but I've since deleted it.
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Just for curiosity, have you guys considered http://www.robovm.com/ Or is it that it wasn't available when you guys started of with inbox?
I observed some suspicious spy-like activity by Detekt v.1.1 and added an issue to the Detekt github site:

https://github.com/botherder/detekt/issues/20

The developer immediately closed my report, without discussion and all he could say is: "Trust me. Detekt definitely isn't spyware."

Somehow, this does not make me feel secure.
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Well, the EVIL-mode is used by a lot of people who want the features of GNU Emacs and a modal interface. If you search around there are several people with detailed reports why and how they switched to a modal GNU Emacs.
You might be surprised how many people there are who would consider the quality of art to be inversely proportional to what others are freely willing to pay for it. Particularly those in the business of making art that few are interested in paying for.
Zerohedge is very spotty. And no, what's stated there isn't necessarily factual.

A case in point is a global car surplus post a few months back, which turned out (on pretty trivial research) to be using photos dating back many years, to the heart of the global financial crisis. It's only one case among many, but comes to mind.

That's not to say that there isn't occasionally some merit to ZH reporting, but you pretty much have to evaluate and assess each individual story on its own merits and based on independent verification.
does anyone have a nonpaywalled link? going via google didn't work like it does for nyt.
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NOTE: Link above to technical overview. Not photos :*(
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Oh aren't you just adorable.
Is a system running Linux + Wine no different than Windows, just because it implements the same Win32 API? Is FreeBSD the same as Linux, since they both implement POSIX?

There are many ways to implement the same APIs.
The auto complete in Chocolat is just mind-blowing.

Unfortunately I really miss all the keyboard friendly features in Sublime (CMD+P then write the name of a file; CMD+SHIFT+P and write a command). I think if you had those implemented many Sublime users may consider switching to Chocolat. (then there are also features that may be harder to implement, like Sublime's search and multi-cursor selection)
Thanks! I've been on HN for 4 or 5 years though, I just make a new throw-away every few months. It will take a lot more than that to scare me off!
I don't think this will happen. Most people will probably cope with ads. So Google will keep making business that way.

But the ones that don't want to see ads may pay Google instead of using AdBlock. Also, some publishers may decide to use Google's solution instead of an in-house one, which allows Google not to be bypassed.

If all that was to fail, I'm sure Google will find new problems to solve and more ways to grow revenue.
> I wonder how my day-to-day activities would change if I knew I was constantly eating away at my monthly limit

I've been spending the past 2 weeks at my parent's house in Australia, they live an hour from the nearest village and 2 hours from the nearest city. The only internet options are dialup, satellite or 3G. The 3G is surprisingly fast (6 MBps), but it's $60 for 4 GB.

I've been watching my usage, installed Little Snitch to disable all kinds of background activity like auto-updating. Most of my online time has been browsing HN, Reddit, IMing,, Facebook, Twitter, email, a couple Skype calls. Have watched a grand total of 2 YouTube videos.

I've still burned through 5 GB in 2.5 weeks. I don't even know how, aside from things when OS X spent 100 MB attempting to download the certificate revocation list, and Mail.app continually redownloading all my spam from Gmail.
Fascinating - this is essentially the backstory to Breaking Bad in real life. If Prasher goes bald, time to worry.
You realize that you're just talking in ad hominem circles? You acknowledge that there are reasons that a "reasonable and technically competent person might choose an illumos system"; is it as least possible that someone advocating that choice might not be merely "a random crank on the Internet"? And given that this is potentially a reasonable choice, how does advocating it represent "a very poor grasp of [...] everything"? If there are specific technical arguments to make here, please make them; the repeated personal attack is unwarranted -- and unpersuasive.
Yeah, and they seem to be using Windows as their model of what a "real operating system" looks like.
Thanks for the feedback. I wrote the first sentence because the question I was responding to was in my head akin to saying we should get rid of the police across the board because of what happened in Ferguson.

It might have been fine on other forums, but I see that I would have been better off letting the rest of my answer stand on its own merits (or not.) Will keep that in mind going forward.
jolla uses systemd on their hardware right now. for tablets and phones
It is even worse. The amount of data NSA stores makes them an even juicer target for infiltration, subversion and otherwise gaining access to data they have collected.
Systemd does touch numerous parts of Unix as it existed in 1978: logging, authentication, and devices come to mind. But much of what it's interacting with came along afterward: networking, far more services than existed at the time, a much more complex security scope, and more.

But that's still a good 25-30 years of work, experience, practices, and smoothing out the rough edges that will be shot down the drains.

Systemd also fundamentally changes the control locus of key features within Linux and how applications, the kernel, and OS as a whole are constructed and constrained. Putting all of that under the control of a small group with highly evident disdain for any "outside" concerns (in quotes as these are of the larger Linux community, and the concerns are most decidedly inside that group), contempt, and plays-poorly-with-others attitudes.

I'm not impressed.

Nor with your comment, FWIW.
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This is fantastic! I've always felt that when I star something it launches into the void never to be seen again because Github makes discoverability of starred projects so difficult.

Only thing that I feel is missing would be a browser plugin that allowed me to add tags to a project straight from Github. It could be a bit of a slog to log in to Astral every time I want to add a couple of tags to a project that I've just starred.

I also notice that it uses my open-source Angular Classy project! Love seeing examples of Classy being used in the wild :-) (pimp: http://davej.github.io/angular-classy/)
An expression of his confidence that it won't be encrypt, as he was looking at the breakfast table for a phrase?
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opensuse and debian both continue to log to their respective syslog implementations.
Bugs should be fixed before being found
I see what you're saying. I think the three letter acronym doesn't matter so much (i.e. whether it's the NSA, CIA, or some other org) that carries out the mission - but I think given the sophistication of communications and technology these days - we'd be foolish not to have such an organization. To me the problem is that that particular org has shifted a lot of its resources and abilities to domestic surveillance - and what the article in question is discussing is just Utah symbolically objecting to it.
> So why would you make it more expensive for people to use their personal pipe, which just stands there anyway?

It's not your personal pipe. The bandwidth on the segment connected to you is shared with your neighbours. Upgrading the bandwidth on your segment costs money, ergo we do not want you to use "too much" bandwidth. Pre-emptively curbing bandwidth usage with threats of and/or actual overage fees, ensures higher operating margins and puts off upgrade expenses, thus increasing profits.

Not perhaps the answer you were hoping for, but hey, corporations gotta make money, right?
Linux developers are generally very smart people in my experience. It's consensus of many experienced and smart people that makes it significant.
Some good points from Nate Lawson: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2427492
This book interesting because it forgoes the traditional approach of most mathematical statistics books. The preface states that it is done like this in order to avoid the "cookbook" approach taken by many statistics students. This is why it is ironic that "Bayes' Recipe" appears 15 times in this text, and on page 131 there is a five step algorithm for parameter estimation, and my favourite, oft-repeated, never explained recipe - "n > 30, you'll be fine". There is no mention of the CLT, MLE, method of moments estimation, biasedness of estimators, convergence in probability, how sampling distributions arise, or any of the theory of distributions that underpin all of the inferential procedures detailed in the book. I think that excluding these topics actually increases the cookbooky-ness of the text.

It is important that students understand the provenance of the inferential techniques they use so that they don't land up doing bogus science (which hurts the world) by not knowing the failure modes of these techniques. Of course not all students of statistics know the requisite mathematics to understand it all, at the very least put the failure modes into a cookbook form.

For the sake of science please don't ever do any inferential statistics without knowing when the method you're using works and when it breaks, what it is robust to, and what assumptions it makes. Statistics is really easy to break when used naively. The mathematics of statistics is not easy, and often results are highly counter-intuitive.
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jolla uses systemd on their phones and tablets right now.

IIRC it's also part of some soon to be shipping vehicle integrations, for in-car entertainment systems and mapping.
Many of our customers choose to turn the service on once every several months (upgrade and then downgrade at the end of the month). We totally support whatever works for you.

That said, our service is based around continually scanning the web for exposures of your personal information. There's plenty of new information that crops up all the time, and we're here to help you when it does.
The thing about quantum physics according to Feynman is that quantum objects do not behave in any way like macroscopic objects. You can't use analogies that are rooted in the scale we observe.
I'm not saying that the System 9 (I think -- I'm not fully up on my MacOS nomenclature) to Aqua break wasn't big. It was.

BUT IT WAS THE FIRST SUCH BREAK IN 15 YEARS OF THE GUI, AND IT'S BEEN THE ONLY MAJOR BREAK IN THE PAST 15 YEARS.

I'm also not saying that Aqua hasn't changed at all. It has, with the most notable addition that I'm aware of being virtual desktops (something NextSTEP had in the 1980s). But other than some minor cosmetic changes, and largely invisible-to-the-user under-the-hood updates, the visible UI has NOT changed appreciably.

Contrast that with the disruption that's prevailed in the Microsoft Windows and Linux spaces from 1999 to present. We've gone from the Win98 UI to the candy-cane XP styling, and Metro in Windows, and at least three generations each of KDE and GNOME on Linux, plus a few other desktops which have waxed and waned in popularity.

I've continued to use WindowMaker, and after 17 years, it is, hands down, the one GUI metaphor I've had the longest experience with of any. It's been exceptionally stable, with very few changes. Even minor ones are quite jarring to me, which is somewhat odd to reflect on.

X11 and/or replacements is a whole 'nother discussion, but I'll simply note that the network transparency of X has been hugely underappreciated by many who've sought to upend it (I don't know what the status of Wayland is in this regard).
I've always found this part particularly hilarious/misleading in retrospect:

"For one, in the last stages of GNOME 3.8.0 as release team we specifically approved some patches to allow Canonical to run logind without systemd. Secondly, the last official statement still stands, No hard compile time dep on systemd for “basic functionality”. This is a bit vague but think of session tracking as basic functionality."

It's now the position of the systemd developers that running logind without systemd was never supported, and that distros like Ubuntu should never have tried to do it. I believe they've now broken the ability to do so. It's one of the major reasons Ubuntu had to switch to systemd.

(Oh, and for some context, http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/logind/ is the logind DBUS API. Good luck reimplementing that!)
> One obvious problem is that it appears to be highly immoral to generate a simulation in which millions or billions of sentient beings suffer

If you had a computer program that printed "I'm suffering" on the screen, would you consider that real suffering? Or just a robot that doesn't actually feel anything, it just simulates it?

Or a game where your character is low on health points - is that game character really suffering?

To that other being we may be the same way. I internally "feel" real, but that being may not consider it so, and even if I tell them they may just be excited at how good their simulation is.
there are a few possible cases of users suffering:

* you push a revision which introduces a bug

* you push a release which introduces involuntary API breakage

* the new release has a glaring security issue

* release X relies on a third party which has changed (think: some web service) and therefore doesn't work anymore

Sure, you can push a newer release but you don't want _anyone_ to be using the old one.

I'm not saying yanking is good, but maybe a notification system "this package should not be used, upgrade to XXX" would be useful.
Inetd only did TCP socket activation, not of unix sockets, though.
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By twitter, do they mean promoted comments? Because each time I see a promoted comment on my twitter, I block the sender and report it as spam.
This is targeted at low-income consumers who can't afford anything but the lowest-rate plan. Since they will also be the most likely to value an extra $5/month, this is a way for Comcast to milk them for extra money each month when they inevitably go over the 5GB limit. It's a scam.
"Ad-supported sites fool consumers into thinking ...."
Maybe those ad supported sites just have to pay the server bills.
And what does it say about you if you want to use a product and not aren't willing to pay for it? Not even indirectly via ads?
They support much further back that that. Red Hat still offers support for RHEL4 and will do until March 31, 2017. It was originally released in 2005.

They'll be supporting RHEL7 (with Systemd 208) in some form until 2027
at best he might speak for some sysadmins. His position does not reflect that of all sysadmins so its wrong to pretend it is.
Welcome to the free market. If the price decreases, it means the offer is too large and it should happen.

I'm very afraid the government would one day impose a minimum price for everything, and poor families will never have a shot at any productive activity and will just stay poor forever.

In my country, they voted a law that bans free newspapers and imposes a minimum cost of about 50 cents. Why limit access to knowledge and the effects of a free market? This is the whole "job creator" logic all over again.
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> The rest of the world speaks other languages. If a newspaper in a neighboring country starts publishing articles calling for an invasion of your country, in a language most of your inhabitants don't speak...isn't that something you'd like to be aware of?

You do realise that you have a diplomatic corps with feet on the ground and people who speak the native languages in a substantial percentage of countries, right? And that e.g. CIA have analyst desks for handling exactly this type of thing?

What makes you think the NSA is needed for that? And even if they were, it'd be something like %0.001 of their resources that'd be needed for that.

The NSA's primary mission is sigint targeting non-public sources, as the CIA and DIA and other agencies are under substantial restrictions in terms of what sigint they are allowed to engage in without going through the NSA.
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Does anyone know of documentation on how the exploit functions? i.e. what the vulnerability in Ninjhax is?
"It's just a poor reflection on the state of UI kits if they don't work with F#." - well at least they don't start using lower-case names randomly.
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