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Gentoo is for people that get tired of binary distributions.
Imagine this:

* As a Redhat/RPM user, rpm -iUvh is dependency hell.

* As a debian user, dpkg -i usually leads to dependency hell.

* Yum/Apt will eventually break, leading to manual repair of the package database, or a stuck dependency that makes life miserable.

Either way, a sysadmin ends up compiling most of their bleeding-edge or otherwise need-to-have-it software, rather than relying on rpm's/deb's/ppa's to handle it for them. These people tend to install a base system, then compile the rest of the system on top of it, in order to not rely on a package maintainer who usually volunteers their time (when they have it). I personally have fond memories of 1999, compiling GNOME 0.98.1 and Enlightenment 0.15 on my Redhat 6 machine (Pentium 133Mhz - full day to build) in order to keep up with development.

If you find yourself working around rpm, deb, or even tgz or xz files, give Gentoo a shot. Ebuilds are clear instructions on how to build a package reliably. Should you want to enable custom options (i.e. VLC with VDPAU), most ebuilds have USE flags listed, which bring in any other libraries you may need, and can be set per-package or globally.

The first five or six times you build a kernel you just configured, it will fail to boot. You will have to earn your system (sound/video/peripherals) a piece at a time. And once you've done it, you'll feel like you climbed Everest. You will know Linux intuitively, and it won't feel like a foreign environment.

I like to compare Gentoo to driving a manual transmission. Automatics like Ubuntu/Redhat/Debian are useable, but you don't get a feel for the machine like you do with Gentoo.

Arch is like Gentoo's little brother with a systemd infection. He'll live a long healthy life, but expect breakdowns and sadness. If you have an AMD card, expect pain (even if you use V10L0's repositories). but the AUR is almost as big as portage, and you can seriously have a full system installed in less than 10 minutes (if you know the commands). I use an Arch LiveCD to chroot my Gentoo installs now. :)
Wow, that article isn't about the conference at all, it just serves as an anecdote. The quote the conference uses in their media serves, if anything, as nothing more than a flippant missive meant to contrast the writer's own view of himself against the people he writes about, not as praise for the event.
NotRxJava guide for lazy folks
Context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9443048
Bloated.
> In a real democracy what you should have is oversight by the people, in an open and transparent system.

In this context what exactly would that entail?
It depends on what type of data you are logging.

For performance metrics we use graphite/stats-d This allows us to log hits/access times for many things, all without state handling code inside the app.

This allows us to get rid of a lot of logs after only a few days. As we're not doing silly things like shipping verbose logs for processing.

However in your usercase this might not be appropriate. As other people have mentioned, truncing the tables and shipping out to cold storage is a good idea if you really need three years of full resolution data.
If you want to know how 'all of those white men' think, you will have to interview every single one of them, because they are not all the same. In general though, most punk subcultures (like hardcore) are full of idealistic, passionate, left-leaning individuals who get really goddamn angry at any kind of oppression. I'd say that with very few exceptions, those white men care about women and non-whites more than most other people you'll ever meet.
Can anybody shed any light on the etymology of "prov'd"?

It was fully prov'd, that the Prisoner unbolted the Hatch...
So that video evidence of the hypothetical rape could be sealed by the court. Problem solved.

As for the rest (people would laugh at you if they saw the video?), that's pretty weak stuff.
Insufficient context, please expand.
Yeah, and if "everything is a file" was actually true, then the filesystem would be the only namespace you needed to care about.

It isn't.
How much is 48s in a monetary value I am familiar with?
Cyanogenmod still includes the app ops.
Yes... it was friendly to budding hackers like myself in many ways. Pretty clearly intended to be a computer, not what another commenter calls "better machine".
I had this PG advice tagged:

"When growth plateaus you pretty much have to start from scratch. You have to treat your situation as if you needed to come with a new startup idea. You can't just somehow revitalize things."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrWavoJsEks#t=9m45s
Please hurry and upload part two, as i'm about to finish every book in the first part.
The math is fairly simple. The probability distribution of a multivariate standard gaussian has a simple form that is f=a * exp(-x1^2+...+xN^2)=b * exp(-R^2), where a and b are some normalizing constants and R is the norm of the position , that is, it is obviously rotationally symmetric [1].

But that pdf is also the joint pdf of N i.i.d. gaussians, evident by decomposing f=a * exp(-x1^2) * ... * exp(-xN^2) [2], which is the joint pdf x1,...xN s.t. fx1=c * exp(-x1^2), ..., fxn=c * exp(-xN^2).

[1] Since exp(-R^2) does not depend on direction but only on distance from the origin

[2] The fact that f(x1,...xN)=f1 * ... * fN if x1,...xN are independent follows directly from the fact that P(A & B) = P(A)*P(B) if A and B are independent events.
> I'll have to continually go back and re-read what I feel like I've just read.

That's a feature, not a bug.

Limit your first reading to basic understanding of the plot and setting; ignore exploration of "deeper" themes until subsequent re-reads.
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> If modern writers have such disrespect for their audience

As opposed to whom, paid-by-the-word Dickens and his amazing menagerie of circumlocutions? ;-)
If the cameras can be turned off, they will be turned off whenever some bad cop wants to do something he or she does not want to be on record. So the cameras will not be useful.

Either the cameras are on all the time, or you can forget about them.
Almost every C++ codebase out there vendor all dependencies. Looks like they are not using the system package manager. Windows has no package manager with such library releases.
Language package managers have problems, but they do make the work easier.

Anyone here unhappy with pip?
> So that video evidence of the hypothetical rape could be sealed by the court. Problem solved.

Personally, I think the DEFAULT should be "sealed" and then video for times X to Y should be unsealed as necessary for cases.

> As for the rest (people would laugh at you if they saw the video?), that's pretty weak stuff.

I think that depends on who you are. Some people take being the object of popular ridicule better than others.
"Prov'd" is just a contraction of "proved". It was common at that time. This might have a familiar ring...

If this be error, and upon me prov'd,
I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd.

(It's from Shakespeare's famous sonnet that begins "Let me not to the marriage of true minds / admit impediments".)

Beyond that, "prove", "proof", "proven", etc are all from the latin provare - to try, or test.
Same experience here. The first they scout you through your website, and act as if they had done some research, and drop the bait of free booth, then they "vet" you over Skype and later let you know you're a winner.

"By charging big companies big money we can offer promising startups like you this opportunity for free"

All you need to do is buy couple of tickets for 1500+ euros and the free booth is yours.

Ouch. But we've come this far, maybe it's worth a shot...

When you get to the place you realize it's 500 startups like you, crammed shoulder to shoulder. Very few investors around...
You can still "delete" by hand in D. The GC just does it if you fail to.
26 billion trees are currently being burned down every year while only 15 billion are replanted.

Glad to see we're replanting a substantial amount of trees taken down every year, this gap looks closable. I had in my mind much closer to 5% or 10%...
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I'm a novice but would like to know how these issues can arise. What kind of backend setup is needed for it to be a problem? What is happening when a race condition occurs in these examples?
Thanks so much! Just got the ebook. 16 definitely beats 33, pushed me over the edge on my student budget. :)
Whatever you do, do not allow yourself to feel like a helpless victim.
That's what losers do.
You are not a loser.
But if you allow yourself to think like a loser you are finished.
Not just in this job, but in life.

Decide what you really want first.
Do you really genuinely want to stay?
Sounds like the place is a little corrupt.
I wouldn't want to stay there.
But if you do, then own that choice and don't let anyone else tell you to run away.

There are an infinite number of ways in which you can manifest the future that you desire.

In workplaces that have been infested by people who care more about getting for themselves than giving something amazing to the world, you're going to have to play the political game.

I avoid those kinds of workplaces because I find doing so repulsive, but if you really want to stay, that's what you're going to have to do.

That means forming alliances and destroying your enemies.
This guy who has taken action against you is doing so because he feels threatened by you.
You could try to repair your relationship with him.
Or you could take action to destroy him.
Decide which you want to do.

It sounds like you are in the right.
Know that a man who has right on his side, and who is absolutely confident and determined to do what is right no matter the cost is absolutely terrifying to the typically cowardly types who climb the corporate hierarchies at most companies.

Most will bend under the slightest threat you intend to stand up for yourself and take action against them.

You wield a lot more power than you think you do.
Just believe in yourself and do what is right because it is right and people will rally to support you.
We push data into shared memory. Then we have clients that can read the memory and present it. This makes it possible to log millions of lines per second with a very limited cost.

This has the benefit of making logging more or less asynchronous. You still need to handle the logs coming out of this, of course.
There are 20 shillings in an old pound, so it is £2.40

This is equivalent to about £300 today. If we instead consider it as a percentage of the GDP per capita it would be eqiuivalent to £6000 today.
>> FYI: I am in CA and my startup is in no way related to what I work on at my day job.

Note: I am not a lawyer.

"Related to" is a very loosely-defined term. Don't be so sure that your startup is not related to your work at your day job.
Practical applications are impossible. Prototypes are easier, because they dont have to live in real world.

simple examples - can charge phone in my pocket while im moving around? that will require at least 2(3 to be viable) charging stations in the room. What if there are two people in that room? What if I have a cat and would like to keep him sane? what if my phone is in a lower pocked below the desk level? I have to take it out and put on the desk in unobscured spot? why not put it on $10 Qi pad? Charging multiple phones in a starbucks? haha give me a break.

and all the iot talk thrown in? Its typical 'this will change the world, we can do everything' BS startups do when their core technology doesnt work at all. They have a prototype!, just no real world numbers :))
It'd buy you about 8 dozen candles.
The text for this article on the nytimes fronpage reads:

>The computer industry is seeking to block surveillance, including by the N.S.A., which fears “going dark” on terror threats.

I find something about the use of "the computer industry" to describe Google et al be really quaint. It's understatement. Also, what industry doesn't depend on the computer industry these days?
I read that line a very different way and on its face it does mean something very different. The (very good) lawyers at Google may want to look at how this is phrased if it is intended to mean more than what it says plainly.

No need to speculate as appellate courts (and Google's own recent trials) have made the law quite clear.
I think that's a consequence of spherical symmetry. I'm not sure I have the entire logic worked out, but because it's isotropic, then the distributions need to be uniform I think.
I run services that log to plaintext files and I use logrotate to periodically gzip and rotate them out for archival.

Just use grep to query recent logs, zgrep if you have to dig a little.
I agree. Intelligence services always liked collecting data. In fact, before facebook and computers, they had whole departments maintaining big paper files on who published what opinion, what any informer said on anyone, people's CV, relationships, etc. Browsing these files efficiently was a discipline in itself. The move to electronic files was only natural and they collected more data automatically just because they could, but it is sort of in their DNA, nothing to do with terrorism.

The problem with these files is that they are only going to really bite us over a longer period of time. When intelligence services get more reckless about them (procedures becoming more lax over time is a natural decay), and when they contain sufficient data over a long period.

Imagine what Nixon would have done with this data. We don't even need to invoke dictators!
The largest problem with Linux deployment is support. Suddenly you need a tech support team that can support Linux as well as Windows.

Blizzard had a Linux version of World of Warcraft, but can you imagine how hard it is to ensure your support staff across the world know how to handle a customer with a Linux PC?
The question is how do you create enough financial incentive for organizer to put on a quality conference without charging startups? I don't mind paying a small fee, after all a lot of effort goes in to putting on a conference but clearly there are those charging "too much" (of course that is subjective).

Calacanis's Launch cost $450 a table for 3 days with discount code. For those who attend this year or last how did you feel about it?
While it's better than nothing, the newly planted trees actually cannot replace the old trees. You can read about the reasons why for example here http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/conservation/...
(I'd do a TL;DR but it's actually pretty complicated, as ancient ecosystems tend to be).
Huh, I first read about magnetic fingertip implants back in 2006:

http://archive.wired.com/gadgets/mods/news/2006/06/71087?cur...
This is a much better article: http://www.salon.com/2015/04/24/we_must_disband_the_police_b...
I'm slowly working my way through school again in my mid-30s to go to law school, although so many lawyer friends have advised against it due to an overcrowded marketplace. I really haven't yet decided if I'll actually do it due to such horrid numbers...
The US and Europe is more forested now than it was 100 years ago, on average. Wood is no longer needed for fuel and ship building. Most commercial logging now goes on in managed 'tree farms' rather than virgin woodlands.
It depends on the priority and importance of events.

For instance, we use a log file for HTTP access logs but I store all of errors and warnings from MongoDB. However, I clean the log storages every month.

We use NodeJS and MongoDB in www.floatalk.com
Ah, of course. To visualize it, the distance between the center and the surface of the shape would be proportional to the probability of that vector being selected after normalization. Thanks!
Not sure why you got downvoted. My vote for Knuth too.
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What is needed is law school graduate employment numbers broken down by undergrad degree.

I would think those who have undergrad in some STEM would be doing better than those with no technical background.
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I have reported the same issue with Digital Ocean (security) in November 2014, and they told me I was using the wrong address and that they forwarded it to the proper team. I triggered it by accident, using the same GitHub code twice, and I (or the DO staffer) didn't realize it was a race condition. I never heard back but they let me keep the balance :)
I read it, start to finish, on the can.

It probably helped that the men's room at work seems to be some kind of Faraday cage, so whatever is cached in your mobile browser when you lock the cubicle door is your reading for the duration.
>Although we’ve successfully generated uniformly distributed points on a sphere, it feels messy. Some points seem too close together, and some seem too far apart.

This is how randomness should look. If you randomly generate (using a high-quality random engine) uniformly distributed points on a square plane or even a line, you'll see the same apparent clustering.

Put another way, if you plot every point on a coordinate grid with integer coordinates, you'll have a uniform distribution, but it will hardly be "random."
One reason I've observed is that the quality of printed text isn't necessarily that good. I can't not let go of a good book, I'm only bounded by the time of day and night: if I weren't, I'd read it on one sitting. Or an interesting textbook that I can't wait to get back to even if it's slow to read because it's just so interesting.

But there are lots of books that just aren't that good in comparison to really interesting articles on the internet. There are a even a lot more articles, so the reader must develop the skill of skimming quickly and deciding early whether there's any meat in it. But good articles are really good and they're easy to find. Books that aren't bad and books that are just all right but not really, truly good can't simply compete: earlier they could because there was no alternative. But now there is.

Nothing can beat a good book but there's so many other things to read that are incredibly good too, so the partitioning of our reading time will simply change.
Are there any benchmark comparing speed of execution of a xen+unikernel app vs no virtualization at all ?

I wonder if this tech would let you have bare metal speed in a cloud environment.
How do you envision body cameras making police behavior worse?
Normally I'd agree, but in this case the code is just one part of offering. You want docs, you buy the book. I know I will.
Going to the source[0], there is no reference to the punishment listed. In fact, other punishments listed on the same page seem mundane in comparison, e.g.

> ... the Jury found him Guilty to the Value of 38s.

Is it possible this is just a transcription error?

Edit: maybe not, see [1]

[0] http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/images.jsp?doc=171601130002

[1] http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/images.jsp?doc=171601130006
It's unfortunate but in a world where rationality on subjects like these (forget about ethics) is hard to find pointing out that the thing the world seems to revolve around (money) is being wasted can be used to some effect.

I agree that this is not the way the world should work but when you all you have is eggs omelette is on the menu.
Here's a scenario for you. Imagine you are an aerospace engineer working for a company such as Boeing. After a nice career, you decide to retire. One day, while in the shower, you imagine a brand new design for an airplane wing and you decide to model it on your PC using the software you'd always used at work. To your shock, you discover that this new design promises a substantial reduction in fuel costs. You obtain a patent for your design. Now what? Are you going to start your own company to manufacture aircraft wings? No, you decide to remain a NPE and license your patent to companies such as Boeing and earn a nice living from it.
As others have pointed out, the distinction between randn() and rand() is crucial here - the former gives you points from a (spherically symmetric) normal distribution, the latter gives you uniform points from the unit cube.

One of the advantages of the normal-sampling route over @ginko's rejection-based method is that in high dimensions almost all of the volume of the unit cube is situated outside of the unit sphere (the volume of the unit cube is always 1, whereas the volume of the unit sphere decreases exponentially with dimension). So the rejection method becomes exponentially slow in high dimensions, while the Gaussian method still works just fine.
My friend survived the Everest avalanche. And posted this video
Interesting. Is it open source?
You could also take a look at Graylog (https://www.graylog.org/), it supports structured data in a variety of formats and can send alerts as well.

It's similar in spirit to elasticsearch + logstash + kibana, but more integrated.

Disclaimer: I work on it, so I'm not going say what's better, just giving another pointer.
I can only speak of my own experience. My longer journeys has always been for doing voluntary work. Often that meant I got to experience these moments of fantastic joy and then the next day moments of extreme misery (not to my person but local people around me). So part of it is an emotional roller coaster. The other part is intellectual, I got to learn how other cultures and languages work, far removed from my own. I learned new ways of dealing with things in life. It sounds small now that I write it but it's truly mind expanding.

When I got back I felt that I had thoroughly changed, yet my friends and family considered me to be the same person I was when I left. How could they do anything else? They couldn't possibly know what I had been through. To them I had just been away for a (short) while. To me they started to feel narrow-minded and set in their ways. The things I now found interesting weren't interesting to them, they couldn't understand them. The things they found interesting had lost its appeal to me.
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In the original Spectrum, there was no reset button. Nor was there a power switch. So if your machine code got stuck, you'd remove the power plug from the jack and put it back in, to get that power-on self test black screen and then a BASIC prompt.

And, eventually, the jack would wear out for those of us who wound up with more bugs than was good for the power jack. Some people actually had to replace the power jack because of this. You can still get those as spare parts, btw. http://www.dataserve-retro.co.uk/contents/en-uk/d7.html
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“I'm tired of being harassed about my gender and sexual as a female gamer.”
That's right at the core of where I'm somewhat frustrated with modern computing. There are days when I feel like an ant walking on a map with no idea of the size of the map nor any overview of what is on it.

Limiting the scope of what you're seeing is no longer a luxury, it has become a necessity to get any work done but this tendency to want to understand everything is hard to get rid of and a huge time-sink.

Couple that with the speed with which formats, protocols and technologies are obsoleted and you end up with an even more frustrating situation.

I suspect the next level of major real progress will come from simplification or a total reboot.
The really dangerous part is you can't tell until it starts damaging your hearing, and sometimes not even then, depending on decibels.

You won't hear the sound, so you're depending on it meeting your pain threshold to be warned that something is happening. If it's "merely" 100db or so (a loud drill), you won't feel a thing, and could be exposed for hours without noticing.

These are the lasers of hearing. Without really good studies to back up the safety of this amount of energy, I might just end up avoiding all starbucks.