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According to Knuth (quoted at http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/167443/1169):

Knuth: So TeX is a programming language but I had to put in those features kicking and screaming.
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They're on debian-devel, and I'm sure the hivemind fill find them quickly enough, but sure: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/05/msg00585.html (and yes, they got pushback, but it took approximately that much until people said WTF).
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Hah, interesting perspective. Thanks :)
Why Amazon’s New Lambda Cloud Service Is A Huge Deal
I don't think you're a misogynist based on this comment. I just think the minority is bigger than you might imagine.
But the quote equally shows how much it is not intended to be.
This is a surprising thing to see written in 1964:

"Given the advanced state of development of present communications lines, it is unlikely that information utilities will wish to invest in their own communication networks. This may be taken as an argument against the necessity for stifling free competition and placing information utilities under public regulation; yet, there is another massive investment that the information utilities will not be able to sidestep as easily, if at all -- namely, investment in the large programming systems required to supervise the operation of the information utility and provide its services. The information utility should be able to shift part of this burden to the shoulders of its customers, but it will have to bear responsibility itself for the design, maintenance, and modification of the core of the programming system. The vast potential magnitude of this system, plus the fact that its usefulness may not extend beyond the physical machinery for which it was constructed, plus the possibility of programming waste from having too many entries in the field, may tip the balance in favor of a regulated monopoly."

They foresaw much of the current debate regarding the market power of cloud providers such as Amazon, and how much government regulation is needed.

And note that this bit was written before credit cards had become commonplace in the USA (and at a time when debit cards were wholly unknown):

"Suppose, for example, that businesses of all sizes have simple terminals linking them electronically to a central information exchange. Then each business can make instantaneous credit checks and offer its customers the convenience of universal credit cards. These cards, referred to by some as "money keys." together with the simple terminals and information exchange, can all but eliminate the need for currency, checks, cash registers, sales slips, and making change. "
I think that the best answer is that nothing's stopping them, but no one is demanding it. Word's type-setting is good enough for most, and so Microsoft has no particular reason to make that aspect of it better (but don't get me wrong—I am no Word apologist, and use LaTeX almost exclusively).
Thanks for the examples, it clearly demonstrates that JS on its own can't even provide minimal I/O. That is by design, in the ECMA 262 standard, it specifies the need for additional objects to provide the I/O. The core language is for scripting the "extension objects".
Here's an article that's not behind a paywall: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-30077122
vm.swappiness != 0 is useful if you use something like zswap.
Look at your current url!

What does YCombinator do?
I'm not sure what you are referring to for the web app. Are you just wanting to skin what it puts as a hypertext file already?[1]

[1] http://www.tamacom.com/tour/kernel/linux/
> "Did you have a gun pointed at your head?"

How did we get here? Because people on the internet continually use this highly charged language without regard. It is high time we as a community (at least on HN) commit to stop using such language.

We don't need to use such language. We don't need it. We can easily make our points without it. For example:

> "stuck"? There are many alternatives to systemd. There are many distributions which do not use it.

While keeping with the intent, this replacement no longer uses the violent language and also no lessens the attack on the parent commenter.

We should in general:

1. Not use violent language

2. Not attack commenters

3. Use non-adversarial language whenever possible.
> irreversible, no way to edit or start over

As of a few months ago, you can now remove titles from your viewing history.

http://lifehacker.com/netflix-now-lets-you-delete-films-or-s...
I've been using MSSQL since the 7.0 days in the 1990s and have never seen nor heard of A) happening. As you said, I'm certain this was "too many cooks in the kitchen."
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Keep stalking. You amuse me.
Oh! I assumed "tried" implied "tried and failed", but it seems the effort is ongoing? I guess the shutdown of Silk Road 2.0 will delay things for a while.
Data doesn't back up what you think. Have you looked at the data or are you going based on hearsay?
If there was one thing the author was right about it was MSSQL's poor CSV support. BCP doesn't handle escaping special characters in CSV (e.g. commas, quotes, tabs if you using tabs as delimiter).
So your logic is: "This guy has database opinions I don't like, and he has gotten some facts wrong, so he ought to put his real identity and address on the Internet for all to see?" I mean, what? I'll take Slashdot-style open source zealotry over something that smells a little bit like 4chan-style threats of "doxxing," thanks very much.

Your comment does not belong on Hacker News.
I may have missed that part - but how? If say for example 甲骨文 represents my campsite, how on earth do I tell anyone as a non Chinese speaker. And if my campsite near Beijing is represented by English words how is that useful to the Chinese delivery driver? And if the two overlap what on earth is the point - we jus have lots of local or non local means of representing the Location - a Chinese local representation may as well be whatever they have now and I can keep to grid references for everything outside of London and the Home Counties. (It's uncivilised outside the borders I hear).
I can buy not calling mathematics a science (although I don't agree), but surely it's torturing language too much (in one direction or the other) to say that computer science is not a science?
Any, any, permaculture meetup in NY will tell you emphatically not to use the soil in the ground and to build raised beds which is what all sensible gardeners (not farmer) do. Community Gardens get extremely highly quality soil from our composting problems.

There are a few bad actors here, and the NY Post is blowing it out of proportion and creating a scare.
This is behind a paywall. The main points are the following:

1) It's now 86 to 14 percent of phone time for apps vs web.
2) App stores (controlled by Apple/Google) take big fees and make the world much less open.
3) Lists on the stores drive adoption.
4) Search in the stores are broken.
5) Market dominance is bad for innovation and consumers
No, it's behind a paywall.
Anecdotal data point, but as soon as Mountain View made it onto the list of possible Google Fiber deployments, we suddenly got bumped to 120mbit+ from Comcast, up from 60ish, all without any increase in price. Given that that's the only time I've ever experienced Comcast doing something for us that wasn't rage-inducing, I'm pretty sure it wasn't just a coincidence.
I was in talks with Rusty about scheduling an interview, but unfortunately would only hear from him about once a week and then he stopped emailing back. I think this is something that needs to change, because he would ask for interviews within 3 hours of the email and then repeat the next week. This is a company I really want to work for, but it's impossible to talk to anyone.
I think there is a bigger problem in Boston than the cost of living. For people with tech degrees, there isn't enough of a startup engine to create enough opportunities (jobs, risky money, talent).

1) Boston seems to be risk averse when it comes to investing -- its just the mind-set.

2) Boston is really SaaS focused (safe) -- most young people want to work in a consumer space.

3) There isn't enough executive talent and for that matter VP level talent. You can see the evidence in the lack of IPOs. How good number of Boston companies seem to fall out of sky at the same stage (I can name some names but I won’t).

4) Facebook and Dropbox should of been Boston companies.

PS: I still love Boston and I am really happy to be part of the tech scene with such a bright future.
Unfortunately, "maps" or "interactive web app" have become too synonymous with "display of data"
Unbearable? We all know TSA and PreCheck was the result of 9/11. Remember the public outrage of the terrorists being allowed to sneak in knives to hijack the planes?

Little less known is how common hijacking was in the 1960s. Back then one could go straight to the gate from the airport lounge. No security check.

http://listverse.com/2012/10/27/top-10-us-airline-hijackings...

Some guy was even able to carry a machine gun onboard!

This was in the US alone. Most of security procedures today were the result of those events. When was the last time you heard of an hijack in the US?

So yes, airport security is real PITA, and ideally I'd love not to subject to it. But to say it was implemented on a whim is a gross neglect of history events.
I completely condemn such nonsense as a bunch of vitriolic people driving a distribution maintainer away from their position all because of their indirect affiliation with a controversial project.

Such actions are why I identify with neither the systemd opponents nor the proponents. Unfortunately, it does dilute arguments against systemd, because of immediate associations with fools who attack people and scream fallacies (even though the non-systemd camp is an amorphous blob more than anything). This in turn gives moral high ground to the proponents and any attempt at debate devolves into the same dead ends and non-arguments between equally clueless factions.

Yet as much as the entire display is abominable, it is sadly also completely predictable. For all the good things the systemd crew have done, their ideas are disruptive, in that they're trying to mold a cathedral out of what has been a rather adamantly bazaar-based community for over two decades now. Contrary to popular belief, simply developing your tools in one repository doesn't magically make you "more like the BSDs" - there's far more to the BSDs than that, and every time I see someone make that argument, I twitch.

We're in the midst of an unprecedented schism. But, for what it's worth, this isn't an issue with "open source". No, it's an issue with the Linux community in particular. It is particularly dysfunctional. I have no idea why Linux attracts so much drama and carnage amongst its constituents, but it does.

I'm pretty disappointed in all sides here. The people who attack systemd and its developers on completely false premises, and the people who are convinced it's the be all and the end all, and have been living under a sysvinit-based rock their entire lives. It's just so exhausting. It really is.

I don't know how this will end. But the irony is intense: an attempt at distro unification has led to a big divide. The best thing we can hope for is people doing a bunch of new experimentation in Unix process management. Projects like Epoch and nosh are up and coming. Hopefully we'll see more.
A good advise is to split sentences between lines at logical places, like commas, dots, etc so the diff will be easy to read.
AFAIK, they pretty much ignore women's complaints as well (at least judging from reporting about e.g. Anita Sarkeesian).
> You don't have to use systemd.

Whatever the original problem was or the top link that is just not a viable solution. It is like saying "you don't have use libc, write your own". Or "Fine, Linus is a jerk, don't use the kernel, install minix but stop criticizing linux".

Let's say I follow the advice and apt-get remove systemd from Ubuntu 14.10. It doesn't look good. It takes along with it gnome-session, gvfs, nautilus, network-manager, pulseaudio, ubunt-desktop, softare-center, update-manager, update-notifier and others. Have you tried doing, maybe I am doing something wrong and there is a easier way to replace it.
I really wondered whether people would sympathize with me or just flame me.

I guess I can explain my 'imaginary' problems a bit. Like normal people, I had several random things thrown in rc.local(set drive power settings,disable blue tooth on laptops, set raid sync rates,ect).

The first issue was, systemd never even executed this file. I had to go do random googling just to get it to execute.

After that, it was hit or miss on whether everything within the file would even get successfully executed. I'm guessing because some dependencies or modules aren't loaded yet, which shouldn't matter since rc.local is normally ran last. Sure, I could take each individual command and make its own init file which is what systemd docs recommend over rc.local. But seriously, why should I have to go to that length to fix something that has been working fine for 15 years?
>> I have pitched tech to the NSA before, and it seemed like they were more interested in benchmarking the capabilities of the outside world than in actually adopting the technology we were pitching.

That should be step one. They should not be interested in what you were pitching without benchmarking first right?
The only reason I removed my comment is because I determined that it wasn't worth continuing as it seemed you were 'arguing past me' about a different point than the one I was making. You hadn't yet replied when I deleted it. It seems you are continuing to argue against a position I never took up in this comment here. I don't care about the article, personally. And I don't think the article is 'scientific', even if they cite and follow certain 'science' aspects at different points. I never claimed that it was. So, I'm unsure why you keep arguing against a point that I am not making when I agree with you that the original article isn't 'science' and that science doesn't belong in the title.

I had responded to your nitpick with one specific point where I think you are incorrect. There's no reason for the original authors to have to do anything at all related to additives. They don't need to test for additives, they don't need to cite that they are harmful. It's enough for them to state that they did not use them and why they recommend against them. Which they did. Additives are a completely unnecessary complication in the process of seasoning. Just as a contamination would be an unnecessary complication to a science experiment (please note again that this is an analogy and in no way means I believe the article is 'science-based'). There's no reason at all for the additives to be there. And no reason for the authors to test for them or cite anything related to them. The same as there's no reason to test or cite how well it works with the presence of dirt, salt, sand, baking soda, or moon rocks. That is the one point I was making. I will not be replying again as this is a poor use of time.
This is a PDF! Please note that in the title. Some of us don't want to download PDFs to our mobile devices.
The article is "Why Amazon’s New Lambda Cloud Service Is A Huge Deal" and is in part about responding to events and
mentions a connection with IFTTT.

Well, without getting to things that are new,
there are some related old things!
If like the new things, then might
also want to look at some of the old things!

There is C. Forgy's RETE algorithm for
expert systems where have rule based
programming of If-Then statements.
Here the logical expression after the 'IF'
is in terms of working memory. Then
conceptually, continually all the 'IF'
statements are evaluated and for the ones
that are true the corresponding 'THEN'
statements are executed.

There was a programming language to do this
KnowledgeTool from IBM Research.

Well, the article is in part about
software that responds to events from
system management, events from outside
the software. So, might let the working memory
be changed from some sources of events
from outside the IFTTT or expert system
software. The working memory that is
changed might have some object-oriented
ideas, say, with an inheritance hierarchy
that can be changed in real-time during
execution. Then software executing the If-Then
statements might be multi-threaded and
use working memory in a way that
has database-like transactional integrity
and automatic deadlock detection and roll-back
of the partially completed but
deadlocked (transaction) work that was cancelled.

The
same group at IBM Research did that and
called it Resource Object Data Manager.
The intention was system monitoring and
management of server farms and networks.

So, using software something like IFTTT to
monitor servers that issue events
is old stuff! If like such things,
then might look into some of the old
stuff.
Perhaps. I was an early adopter. I switched because the news at the time was indeed, debian is switching and there will be no alternatives. It seems their will be some alternatives at least in the next release. Not sure about after that though. But too late, I already converted everything, not converting back.
Agreed. I maintain my stance as a critic of systemD but it's better than what we had before.

I've very little to criticise it as an init system... My criticism falls more towards the issues of "why is this all in one process not task specific child processes launched by a core init process" and "why can't you make this work on BSD" and "why the f%*^# hell are you building kdbus... Please stop killing the kittens"
I too will offer solidarity and hopefully absorb some of the downvotes. I don't know who is downvoting you; your points seem quite reasonable. It is unclear that actual death threats have been made. In either case, this is irrelevant to the technical merit of systemd. We should not let valid criticisms of systemd be derailed by inappropriate focusing on death threats, which is a separate issue from hating systemd for technical reasons.

I can see that systemd as a piece of software has many benefits. However, as a software project, the attitude as you mention, is a major problem. In my one single minor interaction with systemd people, I already agree with this criticism:

"My experiences with systemd's Debian maintainers (and, indirectly,
systemd's upstream) have been far from satisfactory in this regard.
Instead of taking a flexible approach, and being willing to provide a
range of glue facilities and approaches for different daemon
upstreams, the systemd community seems doctrinaire. Daemon authors
are expected to do as they are told by systemd upstream, rather than
systemd upstream making things comfortable for daemon developers.

This is IMO the opposite of the proper attitude."

(from https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2013/12/msg00182.html)

This counts as a "technical reason". Though not directly about the software itself, a project with such an attitude should not be relied on because the people in control do not have your best interests in the long run.
I find using the equation editor in Word to be physically debilitating. Pretty much any software involving tiny graphics and fine mouse work triggers severe eyestrain headaches and neck fatigue.

There's a document here, describing keyboard entry:

http://www.chem.mtu.edu/~tbco/cm416/EquationEditor_main.pdf

It's basically a markup language of sorts, and I'd use it if I were presently writing a lot of text with equations.

For better or worse, working in industry, my reports are free of equations! I've formed the hypothesis, that when managers and non-technical people see an equation, they assume the report is "incomplete," i.e., the equation needs to be turned into an actual result.

I've been to academic talks where, instead of typeset equations, the author just copies the source code from their MatLab file to a PowerPoint slide.
I didn't know GLOBAL had a web interface, but we generally want search, highlight, bookmarks, and notes, in addition to clickable cross-reference popups. We used ectags and Pygments.
Yes. CSS (in Chrome and Firefox and modern IE; not Safari, despite Apple's typographical reputation) supports OpenType features like ligatures, stylistic alternates, kerning, true small caps (not using the CSS font-variant property, using the font-feature-settings property), lining/oldstyle (and proportional/tabular) numbers, etc.

HTML/CSS typography can be very sophisticated.
Another argument for Net Neutrality. Just pass the data through please.
I have to laugh when my kids are assigned a "five page" paper, that will never be printed.
The graph goes crazy. The sine is spiky, like there were too few samples or some kind of sampling aliasing. This happens in the web plugin and standalone Windows exe.

It's so hard to explain, but I loved the game so much I'll download a screen recording tool to show what's going on. Will edit as soon as I get the video captured.

EDIT: Downloaded the worst video capture tool but here it is:

- Default state, zooming in and out: http://i.imgur.com/N34bRcS.gif You can see spikyness and the graph changing with zoom.

- Default function, changing x's scale: http://i.imgur.com/LQ99RY7.gif This does not make sense at all.

- Sledding with x scaled to 7: http://i.imgur.com/9QukafO.gif The graph changes over time.
Yes, if you're referred from Google it lets you read the whole thing. So just Google the title of the article and click on the first link.
It's very easy to talk about game "journalism" without being lumped into the "vocal minority". Just talk about game "journalism" without sticking up for the hopeless "GamerGate" brand, and be careful not to bring up game "journalism" in discussions about gender parity.
> I have no idea why Linux attracts so much drama and carnage amongst its constituents, but it does.

It starts right from the top, just like the similar situation in the Rails community.

When your founder and leader behaves a certain way, it gives everyone in the community license to act like that.

Edit: I seem to have touched a nerve here. My apology to anyone my comment offended.

Nonetheless, I stand by the idea that the culture of a company or open source is heavily influenced by the behavior of those at the top. How could it not be?

As an example of the other end of the spectrum, when I worked at Adobe it was a remarkably courteous place where people treated each other with respect even when they disagreed. I really appreciated that, and I think a good part of it came directly from Adobe founders John Warnock and Chuck Geschke.
I love this idea. And it sounds like I'm not charging enough, heh.
Here's the thing: you actually need a strong middle class to buy your products. No amount of artificially inflating the value of the stock market through quantitative easing will give you a healthy economy. QE is like putting a fresh coat of paint on a house with a rotten interior: it makes things look pretty, but the structural integrity of the building is almost non-existent.

Employees working themselves to death for little pay is only aggravating the problem, rather than solving it.
Quantitative easing, Yen depreciation...

What they need to do is figure out a way to grow the population locally or through large-scale immigration. I'm afraid this is the fate that awaits the developed world (or countries with low population growth).

Japan is like a canary in the mine of post-industrialism. It'll be interesting to see what they figure out for their society and the lessons they might have for us.