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> The only command I use regularly which invokes a pager by default is `man`

Git also invokes a pager by default. And it also sets $LESS when doing so. In fact, it wouldn't surprise me if systemd's automatic use of a pager was based on git; IIRC, it used to set $LESS to the exact same value git used (I believe systemd has changed it since then).
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> I think that stream-oriented languages are doomed to have an arcanic syntax.

> Streams are a non-trivial construction, after all.

...

> Well, sorry but sed _is_ cryptic. Let me quote an exemple for you (squeezing blank lines):

I agree with you that sed is cryptic, but I don't think that that necessarily means that stream processing languages are doomed to have an archaic syntax. I'd also agree with marvy in saying that the car and house example is very clear as to it's intent:

STDIN | /\w+/{|word|
/house/ {
# when word is house
}
/car/ {
# when word is car
}
{
# default case
}
}

I'd say that's very straightforward and not arcane at all. Just because sed is arcane (it could be argued) doesn't make it a precondition for any stream language

EDITS: formatting.
that's a mirror, not the real thing, you can't upload anything to it.
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This is a good point and there may be something in it.

There's a semi-related, interesting phenomenon in fencing, which results in a a disproportionately large percentage of fencers being left-handed.

This is because at a beginner/intermediate level, left-handed fencers have an advantage over right-handed ones (think about how swords would meet slightly differently if the fencers are each same-handed or opposite-handed). It turns out that this creates an advantage because right-handedness (and hence, same-handedness in pairings) is still >> 50%, so left-handers get very used to fencing opposite-handed, while it tends to throws off right-handers who aren't as used to it.

The advantage goes away at a high level, but it create a bias towards more left-handers taking up and sticking at fencing, because they make more progress when starting out. They feel like they are better at fencing than other sports they might have tried, where they don't have a strategic advantage by default.

Anyway, one of the obviously related subtle effects is what happens when you reach out to shake someone's hand. If you reach out to someone opposite-handed, the result can be brief but tangible awkwardness. Little cues like that can add up to create a subconscious picture of something not being quite right, or perhaps even "sinister".

Again, like with the fencing example, the left-hander is used to this because it happens to them 90% of the time. For the right-hander, it feels like something is off because it only happens 10% of the time, so they aren't expecting it.
I'm also one of the Kickstarter backers. The device's bandwidth usage indeed interferes with normal usage of the network. When I contacted support, they told that they wouldn't add a lower bandwidth cap setting.

I had to disconnect it months ago and the device has been stored since then.
I tested this just now: journalctl | less works normally for me on Ubuntu Utopic.
Option 1 will force me to get a full channel package on Comcast. Option 2 will have DRM.
Of if, like Google, you are the one paying those salaries indexed to cost of living. Then your employees become rather expensive...
Spotify and Netflix are early carnations of what what could come.

Yet both of these companies you mention are reviled by the content producers. What the content producers want is their own walled garden. You want their content, you come to their app or website.

It's pathetic. I would pay a reasonable fee for TV and movies (and often do, btw). There are some movies you can't get in any format but DVD. Ghostbusters, for example. The owners of that particular title refuse to let it be licensed for streaming of any kind. So, I downloaded it (in a completely safe way, of course).

Much has been written about the licensing nightmare for content, though. It's going to be the undoing of Netflix, unless they can get enough of their own content to keep them alive. I'm not sure they can. Whenever I look, it's very hard to find stuff that I want to watch. All the newly added stuff is really 2nd and 3rd tier stuff.
Possible result of Iraq/Afghanistan wars? The army's reported 1 million injured, but I'm not sure how many of them transitioned to disability.

Would disabled veterans be reflected in these numbers?
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I only use DO because they have a $5 offering. If Linode had a "meager support" option at $5 I would take it in a heartbeat. I love that company.
Pretty clear fallacy of tu quoque:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque

Based on your spacing and carriage returns, it's pretty obvious you aren't American and have an anti-American bias. Not saying the US is a shining example of civil rights - they certainly are not - but your comment adds nothing to the discussion.
Fair point, I guess.

I very rarely work with a non-virtual terminal, but when I do I take a photo before typing anything. Perhaps that's only practical for me because it's pretty rare.
I know that all. The point is, DO support lied. After reboot, they still put my node in bad physical host. Also, DO reboot without notice (AWS have EC2 events).
This. Admitting you did wrong is not enough; you're not really sorry if you don't make sure it can never happen again, if you don't try to make whatever repairs can be made, if you don't make sure the culprits end up in prison.

I hope the US is truly sorry about this, but they will have to show how sorry they are. Words are not enough.

Germany, has gone out of its way to punish the guilty, and to change their national culture, and imprint their new culture with the taboos necessary to ensure those atrocities can never happen again. No country in the history of the world has ever been so sorry as Germany, and their reaction to the shameful things they did deserves admiration and respect.

If the US wants to deserve similar admiration and respect, they have to show it. They have to prove it, by putting all these people behind bars at the very least.
It's interesting to see examples of where systemd falls down, though I'd be interested to hear what the actual problem is. The Fedora bug report and linked page basically say "systemd fell over during an upgrade", but is this really a systemd problem or is it a Fedora problem?
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I seriously find it hilarious when large interest groups buy legislation that they think favors them and then they discover they have killed the goose that laid the golden eggs, so to speak.

Greed is such a horrible disease.
> virtually all governments in the world are becoming increasingly authoritarian because of the global economic crisis and the civilian unrest that it provokes

I agree with the former very much. Not sure the latter is the reason why, but it's a decent enough theory. The fact that authoritarianism is the general trend globally is very disturbing - and there is little to no civilian opposition to this.
It doesn't matter that it's open source, it matters that you're buying it from someone who is assuming the liability if it's bad. Bad when I worked for the government we bought a lot of Red Hat enterprise licenses not because we wanted the support (it was for a classified machine) but simply because we weren't allowed to use "freeware".
I draw off of Statisfy questions. The data I get from this new web app has been really helpful. For example, this poll about Uber's market worth really intrigued me..http://www.statisfy.co/q/2082
In no particular order:

(1) Listening to lots of podcasts and audiobooks. Amazon's even offering a holiday discount on Audible subscriptions, so grab that while you can.

(2) Reading incessantly, both non-fiction and fiction. Let me emphasize the fiction. The scientists that brought us satellites were inspired by Asimov's fiction, and the same could work for you.

(3) Sitting and watching. Our friends and family (and total strangers) constantly put up with small annoyances and major blind-spots. Ask yourself: Why are they accepting these pains?

Oftentimes, they do so either because no one's engineered a fix, or because -- and this is often overlooked -- no one's found a way to sell them on an existing fix. If you could find a way to get programmers to consistently write unit tests first, for example, you'd have an engineering "miracle" on your hands.

(4) Make a habit of meditating and journaling. The first, so that you can notice all the inspiring ideas already floating around inside your head, and the second so that you capture those ideas.

I recommend pen and paper (or a stand-alone voice recorder: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00COF74E4/) when doing both at once. That protects you from the "I'll only check Twitter for a minute" trap of using a phone or computer.

Good luck!
I too was a backer in their Kickstarter campaign. Due to the poor communication, continuous delays, and uncertainty on pricing and ownership, I requested a refund. I then bought a synology NAS, setup it up with raid 10, vpn, and Amazon glacier backup. I couldn't be more happy with the decision.

Since then, SpaceMonkey got acquired... which I find fascinating.
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Is McCain's opinion shared by the rest of the Republicans? If so, then getting justice done should not be a problem. My impression is that McCain is pretty alone, though.
>>The West was bringing Russia closer

As part of bringing Russia closer, the West decided to shred Russia of its defense interests inherited from the Soviet Union. There was a systematic attack by the West on Russia's interests in Central Asia, Georgia, Syria, and now Ukraine. You can only bait the bear for so long until it bites you back.
The first problem, PID 1 crashing, is certainly worth complaining about.

The rest seems mostly nitpicking. I wouldn't work myself up about the pager issue as discussed elsewhere here. I do somewhat agree with a rather useless default for the range of things to show (i.e. I'd prefer -b [1] to be implied unless specified otherwise, for example).

1: -b means 'since the last boot' for people not using journalctl. The default is instead to show the full journal from its beginning, as stated in the article.
Hm. How could this be used efficiently for real work? I think because many of our tools are already file-based, this is not the greatest idea for uses cases that require structure. If anything tagging should be used along side hierarchical layouts...Or users should follow the standard of what /etc, /home, /lib and friends are used for. They are essentially tags in directory form.

Take TMSU's example command:

tmsu tag summer.mp3 music big-jazz mp3

We could come up with the same behavior WITHOUT an additional program:

mkdir ~/music/big-jazz/mp3/

ln -s ~/Downloads/summer.mp3 ~/music/big-jazz/mp3/summer.mp3

Could easily make this into a shell script.

Just my 2 cents.
I found that when the output is piped it doesn't invoke the pager. This seems reasonable to me.

What doesn't seem reasonable is the truncation behaviour. When the output isn't piped, it gets truncated to the width of my terminal. When the output is piped, it gets truncated to 80 columns. I'd expect no truncation when the output is not a terminal.

This is an outdated systemd though (I installed it on a Rasberry Pi [Raspbian] in order to play with it), so this may have changed.
Totally agree, it should be obvious no matter your politics that the way disability benefits are currently structured incentivize people to not work, and serve as a de facto welfare system.

The problem is that it's going the be impossible to get an agreement on the solution. Conservatives would take this as an opportunity to slash disability benefits and walk away. Liberals would look toward new government programs.
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Creating something that has never been created before. Combining the latest technologies. Open sourcing it so the world can contribute. All outside of the corporate realm. So that all beings may be happy and free.
" Oh, the full message is available, all right, but journalctl specifically and deliberately invokes the pager in a mode where you have to scroll sideways to see long lines. Under no circumstance is all of a long line visible on screen at once so that you may, for example, copy it into a bug report."

Well, that's what you get by supporting a system built by obnoxious incompetents that think they can replace the most important process in the machine

"(Oh, and journalctl goes out of its way to set up this behavior. Not by passing command line arguments to less, because that would be too obvious (you might spot it in a ps listing, for example); instead it mangles $LESS to effectively add the '-S' option, among other things.)"

Yes, of course.
I'm in a similar boat.

Mine is driven by an eccentric fear of how the economy is changing and assumptions of what it will look like in 10 - 20 years, coupled with a pessimistic view of human nature (but not people, just the way non reflective people behave). I'm trying to financially secure my son's future.
Okay, okay. I understand that the user might be surprised.

man journalctl

$SYSTEMD_LESS
Override the default options passed to less ("FRSXMK").

So - whereever the user defines $LESS I'd add a line a la

export SYSTEMD_LESS=$LESS

and that should solve the problem nicely, right? Surprising? Not intuitive? Maybe. But easily fixable with a quick peek at the man page.
The device needs around 400kbps of uplink capacity currently, though we are working to lower that.

In my own home, I'm on the slowest DSL tier that my provider offers, and only have 700kbps upstream. Space Monkey works fine here, and I can still do dual Netflix streams while it is running. Some users will have to manually adjust their bandwidth settings in environments like this.
Thanks for the down votes, guess it's wasn't obvious enough I posted my personal experience, was the ymmv (your mileage may vary) at the end not enough?
At least in term of compensation, Zurich is hard to beat.
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I don't think being implemented with macros is a plus. I've seen some friends use it and get stuck whenever it was failing because it's impossible to know how it's working. It's the same type of cleverness some people criticize in other comments. Yes, it may be complete and useful but it's opaque.
Why the hell does this thing get upvoted ?
What's good about this implementation?
It's cryptic, it's buggy and it's useless for any practical purpose.

Why is this better than an array of structs ? How much longer can that be ?
That's not even the issue: justifying TV piracy is easy - "I'll buy the Blu-Ray when it comes out".

Which certainly seems fair enough - these things aren't just entertainment, they're culture. If you're a couple weeks behind GoT, chances are you're going to spoiled on it when some newspaper runs a damn headline about an episode.

For people in Australia, there is no other option: many shows simply never make it here. I remember trying to watch Battlestar Galactica on Channel 10 - by the end they really didn't care about that show, and by the time we got it season 2 was already starting in the US. They didn't pick it up.
Within all the noise about systemd I think posts like this are quite beneficial. Instead of discussing politics or throwing out buzzwords, it presents a specific technical shortcoming. Positive or negative, these are the types of things that people should be reading about in relation to systemd.

The problem is that people are deciding whether or not they like systemd based on "do you like Lennart" or "do you like The UNIX Philosophy", because that's what people are making noise about.
"Taking care of your own backups" involves moving drives off-site, like having a backup buddy you can swap drives with once in a while. Unless you do this frequently you're always at risk of losing considerable amounts of data.

Suffering a calamity that causes you to lose everything in a physical location is rare, but it happens. Floods, fires, or war do happen. Having encrypted backups in the cloud means a lot less will actually be lost in that case.
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The fact that my industry is full of a bunch of idiots who execute at 25% efficiency. They rely on their first-mover advantages and allow me to gain huge market share. I have to act quickly before they figure it out.
I won't disagree that demonizing Putin is what the government wants us to do. I remember how the U.S. funded Saddam to use chemical weapons on Iran and then overthrew him "for the sake of the people."

However, it should also be kept in mind that we're still far away from the Russian regime where speaking against the government (releasing classified documents doesn't count) or being a homosexual will land you in jail.

So yeah, no one's perfect, but I'll stick to North America for the time being, thanks.
Yes, totally agree. Any rational entrepreneur leverages his solvency into debt funding.
That's a very old dump of the database, I'm afraid.
That was a thing of beauty. How often can one hope for such a set-up?
Whether or not you think Ulbrecht really was a full-on digital gangster, assassinating enemies at will -- I sure don't -- I think we all can agree: it does not bode well for your coming trial when the judge publicly declares you a danger to the lives of witnesses.
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> but rather that broadband penetration in the States ramped up really quickly at about the same time Bittorrent came onto the scene

Not only this, but prices for cheap virtual servers dropped like a rock, meaning that many more people could afford them or seedbox providers using them. Not many people running eMule or similar on a 100mbit or gigabit pipe.
I think content producers are going to come to the realization that they can't create large-scale applications for their shows that users will actually WANT to use.
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So, the storage and distribution model is a bit like FreeNet, distributed across other devices, but everything is private, no sharing?
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> But we've had written language for much longer than English has been around

We didn't have standardized spelling, a majority of speakers who could also read and write, or formal grammar education.
If you watch Game of Thrones on Sky Atlantic you have to put up with a long ad break after about every 10 minute of the show. It's unwatchable.
And to add insult to injury you're paying a subscription.

Television in Britain has 3 main models:

1: BBC tv paid for by licence, no advertising.

2: ITV, paid for by ads, no subscription (much less advertising than sky)

3: Sky, big subscription and wall to wall ads.

Having been weaned on the former BBC, ITV duopoly there a distinct feeling that Sky are gougers and deserve to be punished.
Last time I ate at a restaurant that had a Freestyle machine, the thing was stuck in an error state and everyone had to stand around and wait for the cashier to go reboot it before they could fill the soda cups they had purchased. Disaster.
>Where the hell do you envision that those magical parallel algorithms would be used?

Parallel sort. Parallel n-nary search. Parallel linear search. A stupid core for the zero-page thread. Hardware blas. Time stepping multi object systems.
The honest answer is convenience. In my opinion, the only way the masses will consistently make the healthy, environmentally-friendly, or otherwise "right" choice is if it's already the most desirable.
That's plain wrong. The OP is arguing that US violations of civil rights are far more significant and consequential than the ones in Russia. OP is right because US claims the mantle of world leadership, has the world's largest military force, and a dominant economy. US should be held to a higher standard.
Is there anything inherently different (security, performance, or otherwise) about these servers of Runabove's?

I run a fair amount of dev servers, and that price ($2.50) is mind blowing. But i fear that it's far too cheap to be anything but a letdown.. Thoughts?
The bear is rabid but toothless and can be largely ignored except for their actions Ukraine, in which they laughably pretend they are not involved.
I think you mean "900 million transactions per minute". Of course that overstates things since each TPC-C transaction entails a lot more than one write. TPC-C is about 2/3 read and 1/3 write, and each TPC transaction might do 20 low-level read+write operations (I'm actually not sure, but I think that's in the ballpark.)

In the NoSQL world many people have converged on a workload of 90% reads/10% writes to individual keys. We show 90/10 results on our performance page [1] but in this test we do 100% writes to stress the "transaction engine", which processes writes.

Since we have our SQL Layer [2] as well, we will run some more-comparable SQL tests in the future.

[1] https://foundationdb.com/key-value-store/performance

[2] https://foundationdb.com/layers/sql
As I said in another comment, I really wish it went into more detail on the actual problem.

The problems with journalctl are usability ones, which doesn't make them any less of a problem, but doesn't point to an underlying technical failure either.

The problems with systemd are basically stated as "a Fedora upgrade causes systemd to go bad." Is this a systemd problem or a Fedora problem?
Great, now I have two workarounds instead of using a giant screen that's installed in the front of the car that you have to use for everything else. The voice commands suck if you're speaking English as a second language BTW.
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I think if US foreign policy didn't use censorship, gay rights and color revolutions to destabilize other countries China would censor less, gays would be safer in Russia and people would not die in Ukraine.

But of course it's so easy to blame those fascist foreigners that don't like freedom.
Sure but at what "potential catastrophe cost"?

When something "goes wrong" with one of these satellites and wipes out the latest CIA satellite etc or wipes out a pay tv satellite....who is liable and to what ends?
Exposing yourself to the Internet creates a strange sort of voyeurism where you have a personal connection to someone, but that connection tends to be one-way. This creates strange dynamics for prominent bloggers and especially for people on twitch.tv or YouTube where people are giving you life advice and telling you what you should/shouldn't do, or are questioning your actions like they are your close friend, even though you have no idea who they are.
Not really, thanks to magnet links and the dht you don't even need trackers. Sure, you need the magnet link, but you could even distribute them in grafitti or monthly paper issues if you felt inclined.
I would argue that this is a very bad analogy. One is only a photo of yourself (okay, in a setting you might not like, but still just a picture), while the other is something someone can use to fuck you up: put you in financial trouble, break your credit, your name (see other posts in this thread). This is in no way like leaked photos.

I agree both might be troublesome, but the level of this leak is incredibly worse.
It'll be interesting to see if the Mesosphere thing takes off. It seems to be up and running with a 10 instance cluster for 30c/hr.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8521311

http://thenewstack.io/mesosphere-now-supported-on-digital-oc...
Bet you thought the record industry actually wanted people to buy their records