skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The description of systemd - monolithic, taking on function of other things - sounds like the X server. Look what's happening now with Wayland, and look at how hard it's been to get there (hint Wayland is only possible as a result of all the driver architecture changes over the last 5-8 years). It's hard to undo this kind of thing once it's entrenched, but it can be done.
On Assembly, anyone can contribute to an open-source business and get paid
Thanks for a great post! I'm a big fan of Le Guins fiction, as well as her commentary and critique of literature as commodity.

Another great (anti-capitalist) novelist who I admire, China Mieville, touched on some similar topics in his keynote speech at the Edimnburgh International Book Festival a few years ago: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/aug/21/china-mieville-...

"But who decides who qualifies as a writer? Does it take one sonnet? Of what quality? Ten novels? 50,000 readers? Ten, but the right readers? God knows we shouldn't trust the state to make that kind of decision. So we should democratise that boisterous debate, as widely and vigorously as possible. It needn't be the mere caprice of taste. Which changes. And people are perfectly capable of judging as relevant and important literature for which they don't personally care. Mistakes will be made, sure, but will they really be worse than the philistine thuggery of the market?

"We couldn't bypass the state with this plan, though. So for the sake of literature, apart from any- and everything else, we'll have to take control of it, invert its priorities, democratise its structures, replace it with a system worth having.

"So an unresentful sense of writers as people among people, and a fidelity to literature, require political and economic transformation. For futures for novels – and everything else. In the context of which futures, who knows what politics, what styles and which contents, what relationships to what reconceived communities, which struggles to express what inexpressibles, what stories and anti-stories we will all strive and honourably fail to write, and maybe even one day succeed? "
Review these contractors though, many are not native english speakers as well. You might end up with the same grammatical errors and less $20.
Dynmap?

Example: http://minecraft.xandorus.com:8123
Bravo!!! :-D
This is called the "anchoring" effect, a cognitive bias that messes with our evaluation of options (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring).
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Common usage of the word "bug" to describe a software flaw. Non-technical writing aimed at a non-technical audience.
The chance that the connection dies at exactly this moment is negligible compared to the chance that your hard drive dies. Worry about that.
Thank you. Not sure why it took me ten years to discover Ron Gilbert's website. I've been a Monkey Island fan since I was a kid, and just completed replaying MI1 on my newly acquired Tandy 1000. Really looking forward to Thimbleweed Park as well.
Would you like to do it for 15$ ? ;)
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Measuring the unmeasurable, proving the value of Top of Funnel sales channels
All credit due the author here for foresight and restraint on her kids behalf.

This framing of the privacy discussion puts it in biblical terms; most of society is trading away their privacy birthright without thinking in a way they might regret.
Forking a distribution will help by giving an alternative, but it's not as easy as just saying it. Maintaining a distribution is a massive effort that takes a lot of work. Building a team of people with enough time to make that happen isn't something you do overnight. The fact that one hasn't magically appeared since this started has more to do with that than anything else. (Followed closely by people generally waiting to see how this shakes out before they pull the trigger.)

Second - while it will provide an alternative that helps frame the debate, this is not a minor undertaking. With every other distribution caving maintaining a distribution that does not use Systemd will require a lot of work to keep all of the software out there working properly with whatever alternative init system it chooses to use.

This alternative distro is also going to have to deal with how to solve the init problem. We had some good options in play but I don't believe we'd found the best answer to the problem yet when Lennart came bowling through like a bull in a china shop. So any distribution effort is going to have to take on the role of choosing the best of breed alternative and make the effort to ensure it continues to develop and improve.

This isn't something you take on lightly.
Beside the idea, which I think is a great tutorial... I almost can't read anything because of the font. Is that just my computer?!
Just those House Republicans being crazy and making us Americans look bad, again.

It won't pass the Senate. If by some cataclysm it passes the Senate, Obama will veto it.
Hi, we heavily modified the way villagers work, and there is a really cool update coming in the next days:

You will be able to buy or sell to villagers. Villagers will have a "wallet" of money to spend and once they buy you stuff thats the very same stuff they will sell to other players.
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Very, very cool! So you extracted images and dialog from scummvm game data and programmed the interactions? Or you are interpreting scummvm data straight out?
The article says "That’s where Brandon Jones comes in. He is the one (and only) person at Google working on VR support for Google Chrome." This doesn't seem right, that google only has 1 person working on VR for Chrome. You'd think there would be an entire team working on such an important technology. They should move the Glass Team over to help out.
How is that different from Xamarin? Inbox is written in Java and Xamarin apps are written in C# but I think the idea is very similar - cross platform logic, native UI. Why would you prefer the approach Google took but dislike Xamarin's approach?
Oy vey! No! It's not! HTTPS as commonly implemented is well known to be much more compromisable than the approach of using an actual signed system. In particular, the CA system is.... not good (lots of discussion about this exists).

Having the Debian approach is far better here!
Chrome ditched Gtk+ a few months ago and wrote their own GUI toolkit, which is why it doesn't work.
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I remain a diehard SageTV user primarily for the ability to run Comskip on all of my recordings to detect and then auto-skip all commercials on playback. Previously I used ReplayTV to do the same, as well as a JVC SVHS recorder that had commercial detection and skipping capability.
Speaking of libbsd it should be updated to use ChaCha20 too:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85827
Think about why you want different plans. Maybe you're better off with just one plan. Then customers don't have to worry they might get the wrong plan. Instead of having plans you could also charge by module and just give a discount on more modules. "Pay for three, get one free".
Confusing and complicated payment options can hinder sales. You can also start with one and then add more later depending on what customers need.

At the moment you're artificially differentiating your plans by the possible rest times. But that's your main feature. Don't restrict that at all. It's what makes your product interesting.
I'm still internalizing that "Who's the ONE" recommendation, after years of watching my "Got to catch them all" strategy consistently show low returns. Thank you for reminding me to switch to the better one. :)
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Never heard of that.

Regards,

A Brit.
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IMHO, not only is this a "grass is greener on the other side" situation, it is a drastic abandonment of accumulated potential energy (your degree + industry experience).

You would be abandoning a true niche skillset: there are some positions that are open only to people with an MS in FE plus C++ plus x years of industry experience plus a cogent answer to "What happens when there is a race condition between an Order Cancel Request and Executions? What FIX tags are involved? Give me an example". Many people would seriously envy you if you told them what you do.

BTW, many startups (not all) are all about the kludge : they are always in a time crunch and that's why languages that allow rapid iteration such as Ruby or JavaScript (quick wins, but long-term technical debt accumulation) win out over the more sturdy-but-time-consuming enterprise choices such as Java or C++. If your startup may not even exist 3 months after inception, it makes sense to rapidly discover if we can even get customer no. 1. For Goldman Sachs or other big bank with deep pockets, they can afford to allow you time to do things the right way from day one.

For some people, kludging is a personal habit. It is a dangerous one. One suggestion I have is to spend at least an hour daily on reading.

The way I see it, you only need a change of job to a better pay and more respect than $125k in NYC. You may be happy after that + finding more like-minded friends outside work? (maybe attend some tech meetups on meetup.com in NYC?) If your heart strings still tug at you, you can always consider switching over :-)

I used to work in the financial industry and switched over to a startup recently, but it was a decision that made sense for ME, not necessarily others. If you want to talk to me, please don't hesitate to contact.
Still, it's a risk often worth taking. If you look at many of the hypergrowth projects, a lot of them rely on a current market adopting their product as a supplement to a platform.
For those with reading comprehension skills this isn't funny but rather a natural conclusion. The problem for you is that you're making assumptions about the author that you haven't verified.

The problem here isn't change, or re-thinking linux. The problem is re-inventing the wheel, and doing it poorly.

CoreOS uses systemd, but it's not a distribution in the classic sense -- rather it's a platform for containers. The narrow use-case for systemd here removes some (most? all?) of the concerns.
Yes, they are multi-maps, and can have multiple values for the same key. In that case you have to use curly brackets to deference, and you'll get a set back with the values.
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Don't people used Module in practice?

http://julia.readthedocs.org/en/latest/manual/modules/?highl...

I haven't read up on Julia yet, so I'm curious.
I don't think many people had the opportunity to use Aereo. They had a decent presence in New York City, and as the company expanded across the country reporters cited customer numbers in the mid five figures.

As an Aereo user, let me tell you what you missed out on: one of the most amazing products I've ever used.

Aereo "worked." It worked like magic.

First, it lived up to its claim. You could stream live, broadcast television to your phone or computer, and you could AirPlay it to your television. Everything was in HD. It worked incredibly well. So many video products fail to deliver on the user experience, or the video is choppy, or it crashes all the time. Aereo's software had its struggles, but it worked far more often than not. I could have people over and stream the Super Bowl and never worry that Aereo would crap out.

Aereo also worked remarkably well during Hurricane Sandy. I live in Brooklyn, and Aereo's Brooklyn HQ was less than a mile from my apartment, but we streamed Aereo until we went to sleep that night. Considering reports that their antennae sucked a ton of power, that's incredible on a night when power was out all across the city.

I also interviewed with the company in 2013 for a business development role. Everyone that I met was really great. They treated me well during the process while clearly balancing a million things, including their legal concerns. I really, really wanted to work there, but it wasn't a fit for a lot of reasons, their uncertain future being one of them.

When my girlfriend told me that they were filing for bankruptcy, I was sad. This is innovative technology that worked for consumers, squashed by antiquated government regulation and a highly litigious, innovation-resistant, influential media industry.

Progress, halted.

A winning product that could have delighted millions, squashed.
Yes, you can. We also made emeralds easier to find in this first stage so we have lots of them flowing inside the world.

Emeralds are also good for buying stuff other people craft, tipping other players and entering tournaments, and we are working on more ways to use them. We have found most players don't cash out and use it to have fun
> So a method will be needed of deciding whose wants get satisfied.

There are other alternative methods besides exchange and coercion. One is gifting or Potlatch. [0]

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potlatch
> I wish they would just meter the peak hours -- this way more people would set their backups to run overnight

There are a few problems with this. Firstly, very few users are going to cut down peak usage, because it's during primetime that they have the free time and inclination to use the Internet.

Secondly most people don't even know what a GB is. Thirdly, you assume usage-based fees are meant to curb usage rather than drive profits.

> or services would offer a way to cache episodes locally during the night so you can watch them after work.

Since we are basically talking Netflix here, this is never going to fly with the DRM guys.

This is not a technical problem, as you can see, since the desided outcome can be reached, if you are willing to ignore some legal niceties...
Look how many platforms X supports, how many paradigm shifts has survived. systemd already has a less flexible architecture by design that an ancient system, so in the future it'll be difficult to untangle.
I'm quite surprised by Rust behaviour here: if x isn't used after 'v.push(6);' (doesn't seem too difficult to know by the compiler) then I would have expected the compiler to allow this code and to reject it only if x is used after the 'v.push(6)'..
Sure as he explained you can do
"let mut v = vec![1i32, 2, 3, 4, 5];
{
let x = v.get(2);
<work with x>
}
v.push(6);"
but this must be quite annoying..
That looks very cool. How does it work ?
Grumpy Gamer is a fun site. Its basically Ron Gilbert's blog. He worked at Lucas Arts (Maniac Mansion and Monkey Island) making some inovative adventure games. is still making games and blogging about them.

I like the game dependency charts post.

http://grumpygamer.com/puzzle_dependency_charts

As someone pointed out in another post, he has a kickstarter for a "old school" adventure game. (Not affiliated. But backing!.)

http://grumpygamer.com/kickstarter
Same here: when I was growing up, Italian translation were done occasionally, but they were far from common. Now I'm glad.

I surely lost some enjoyment by missing some of the puns at the time, but it's very satisfying being able to play them now, and understand them 100%.

I loved English classes at school, since I could basically NOT study, and still get good marks.

Origin and Lucasarts games were my real teachers :)
Interesting. But what's the difference whether there is a physical lower limit to distance or not? Can it be applied to help make an ansible, for instance?
A link to the last time this was discussed on HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1472175
There are three basic methodologies:

1. Your total costs + some profit $ = Product Price

2. Your comparable competitors price + or - some amount = Product Price

3. A BullShit price you pull out of your ass that you tell people to pay or fuck off = Product Price

Explanations -

3. Apple is a prime example of this pricing model. nuff said.

2. Comparable competitor being the key phrase. I also suggest pricing higher and building a better product. Undercutting can start a nasty pricing war that can cause a lot of unndeeded revenue lost, on both sides.

1. This seems most appropriate for you. You can't just price at what you think the market says they are willing to pay. They may say they are only willing to pay $1/month. That's not going to cover your labor costs unless you have a ton of users. Figure out your labor costs associated w/ maintenance and additional features (don't forget to account for future hires). Price at that amount plus some profit (something like 10% or 20% if you have high labor costs. Don't be afraid to stretch that percentage higher too.)
If you can't find a price point that covers your costs, but is in a range that users are willing to pay for, than you don't have a business.

Entrepreneurs often forget that you can build this kickass product that every user needs, but if the customer doesn't have a high enough ROI they won't buy the product.

User != Customer
Yes we run 100% on donations and in the future we want to get advertisement. That's the two recommendations the guys at Mojang for monetizing servers
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A recent biography was published. It's really good and provides tons of context for his mental state.

http://www.amazon.com/Every-Love-Story-Is-Ghost/dp/014750972...
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We are not accepting payments nor selling the in-game currency thus this is not a pay-to-win game or anything outside Mojang's own recommendations for monetizing servers :D
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I took a lot of screenshots from scummvm, many many screenshots, it was a nightmare!
Luckily there was no antialias or something so I was able to crop the sprites easily.
It seems that folks outside of Red Hat do contribute to systemd, if that's your concern. What I could imagine is that some projects under the systemd umbrella will live an independent life, once things stabilize a bit.

I must admit the ever-growing scope of systemd is starting to concern me somewhat (though I've been running it with satisfaction more or less since it became available in Debian experimental).
You don't have to use/trust the official database (or its whitelist).
You could create a custom database with just the signatures you are interested in and run a scan with just that.
I run a mixed environment right now with OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Red Hat, and Windows. I use Red Hat and Windows because certain software requires it (basically they are single app servers[1]). The OpenBSD servers are all doing basic utilities and the FreeBSD servers are doing stuff the requires a big file system (ZFS). There are a lot of enterprise tasks that OpenBSD is fine with doing, and I just use FreeBSD for tasks that require the file system or really heavy load.

1) government contractors are so fun when they get their software required to deal with certain parts of government
Good product, waiting for first production. :-)
Thanks for the information. Looks good on computers I have tested. Would help if you could write what browser and system you use.
And if you run gitstats on systemd, you'll see that just 10 people are responsible for over 90% of the code.
I used ODesk, paid somebody $20 an hour for C# work.

Went ok. Guy was good enough.

Saves a lot of time for myself and was worth the $20 an hour.

I asked what your favorite C# language feature was and your favorite nuget package to screen candidates out. There was a HUGE difference between two tiers of answers. Either people completely punted or gave me insightful answers.

Will be doing more or less the same thing on Odesk in the near term future because it worked out ok enough to be worthwhile.
If that's the case, I wouldn't consider them a startup anymore. Especially if the major decisions have to be routed through eBay.
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While pricking your own finger and submitting a sample may be a bit daunting to an average person, people with chronic diseases that require blood monitoring are probably more accustomed with the concept. Combine this simple collection service with the analytical tools being created at Theranos (http://www.theranos.com/), and this could be an interesting step forward to helping people monitor their own health and making it more of a common-place practice. The present pain of the finger prick would become but an afterthought compared to the future insight gained.
I've shared this into the facebook Commodore Amiga group [0] where it's getting a lot of love :)

https://www.facebook.com/groups/CommodoreAmiga/
There does appear to be a lot of negativity around systemd, such as people giving out about binary logging. I'm sure there's got to be a way to enable text logging along with binary logging.

This lad seems really enthusiastic about systemd logging and systemctl:

http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/journalctl.html

There are a lot of interesting features, but personally I'd prefer to have both binary and text logging. Text logging is in cases where a system goes tits up and you may only have access to some basic tools such as grep, vi etc.
Finding emerald within the game is actually pretty difficult. We actually had to make it easier to find. But yeah, there would be a problem if no one donates to the server and the game wallet runs out of bitcoin. We are measuring this with high presicion to makepredictions for our second fundraising stage
Solo climbers make a number of first ascents in alpinism, but almost everything is done by teams. When you're working by yourself, everything goes well when things are going well, but when things go badly, there's nobody to turn to for support; you're working without a rope.

I'm a soloist by nature, but I've learned that I need to work with others. The mutual support of a qualified partner is almost priceless, for you and for them.

YC, and the startup culture in general, appears to have noted a strong correlation between multiple founders and success. It also sounds like founder breakups are common. These two observations are compatible.

Ideas do have intrinsic potential value, but that value cannot be unlocked without execution. You may have an idea that sequences DNA with absolute fidelity in ten seconds for $1. That idea has an intrinsic potential value of many billions, but if it can't be brought to market (or to proof-of-principle, to sell the idea to others), that value cannot be converted into currency.