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This whole pulling crap out of the Linux kernel mailing list is doing the industry a disservice.

Quotes are taken out of context, used by people who lack the required technical understanding, which then reach the ears of managers, who will promptly act on overblown concerns. All of it somehow backed by Linus' word, even when he doesn't actually mean it.

I've started a stopwatch to see how long it will take for some of my former coworkers to contact me with concerns about DBus. We used it pretty heavily.

As for DBus itself: guys, it is useful. It works. You can count on it being there and working in most distributions, you can talk to most things nowadays. Its easy to use (for most use cases), language bindings are everywhere.

So, turns out is slow. It's so cool that we have identified that. Let's fix it.

Even if the slowness doesn't seem to bother many of its use cases.
"Also assume that the universe has finite computational resources. Therefore resources have to be diminished in one location when they are in in demand another location."

The "universe computer" could easily be many times larger than our universe and have enough resources to simulate everything, everywhere.
Mashape Open-Sources Its Kong API Management Platform
I think people are used to the apple cut when thinking about the 70% and getting angry, rather than using an already marketed brand to start with, no starting in obscurity.

What I was more concered about was the 'quicksilver' effect. When apple hired the dev who made the tool, it just stopped getting updated.

Everytime a game was patched or updated, what % of the mods would then become unusable, despite paying for it? Can't complain when it's free, but if you paid for the mod is there an expectation of it being working for a period of time? What was that period of time?
Were the police justified when they beat an unarmed suspect and denied him medical attention that would have saved his life? Were they justified when they refused to bring those responsible to justice?
TL:DR
Abstract
—The precautionary principle (PP) states that if an action
or policy has a suspected risk of causing severe harm to the public
domain (affecting general health or the environment globally), the action
should not be taken in the absence of scientific near-certainty about its
safety

It is pretty important if you want people to read a random link, especially 24 pages of reading. You have to give a LITTLE context for why anyone should read something that is contrary to scientific research. It sure looks like there is Scientific certainty that their is 100% no observed harm caused by a GMO. THis has been going on since 1940s. https://gmoanswers.com/ask/how-long-have-genetically-modifie...

When the authors are the following:

School of Engineering, New York University

New England Complex Systems Institute

Institute of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, C.N.R.S., Paris

School of Philosophy, University of East Anglia

Why is it Mathematics, Physics, and Engineering important for me to feel that they are experts for a study in GMO. I get the Philosophy part and agree that should be more utilized, but this isn't based on medical and or scientific facts. This is based on theoretical harm though we have had decades to see its effects already.
EU passed some legislation some time ago where "international" SMS should be capped at 0.11€, so maybe you should try to get a more recent contract or complain through your local consumer support org.
I personally found Bethesda getting any split quite distasteful. They produced the game and made their money on game sales. If they continue to be responsive to bug reports and/or adding new features to the game then perhaps I can see a small amount going to them.

Valve taking a cut I understand as they handle the sales and distribution platform. I'm not sure I think 30% is fair, but that's a different issue.

As a revenue split I'd be much more on board with the modder getting 75% and the rest being to everyone else.

Of course, then you need to consider how mod dependency is handled. And you have to look at how long term mod support is handled. What happens when the modder goes away or Bethesda releases an update that breaks existing mods.

The whole thing is a big nasty ball of problems.
This is an extremely weak argument. You seem to be saying "the old method had all the risks people use to argue against GNOs. Therefore, GMOs are fine."

If the old methods were as bad as you suggest, that doesn't prove GMOs are good. It merely extends the anti-GMO argument to modern radiation breeding methods too.

The most compelling anti-GMO argument is that they could produce an interaction we wouldn't have been able to predict due to complexity, and the interaction could have negative effects that would never have been produced by random selection in nature. Once this is in the wild, it could be impossible to eliminate. Critics argue we are aiming at known, limited upside benefits, while facing unknown, potentially much larger risks. Does this apply equally to radiation mutation breeding?
Infant mortality rates are lower for Hispanic babies born in the US to non-US born parents. This is a pretty well known fact in the public health research.

See http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6026a6.htm?s_cid=...

I vaguely remember that the effect disappears for second generation births. Don't have a citation handy for that though.

(Edit: pdf link since the above link seemed truncated - http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr59/nvsr59_06.pdf )
Northen America cities are really not geometrically in favour of law enforcement. L1 geometry + size of blocks gives an unfair advantage to the rioters. Which means law enforcement have to resort to excessive violence to squash demonstration, and the government to use excessive measures to protect social peace (such as spying their own citizens).

Designing cities for cars and not the "humans beings" may have been a cost.
If that was an option, but not the only option, it could make for an interesting addition to their business model.

* Public repositories (fork for free)
* Premium repositories (fork for a fee)
* Private repositories (restricted to content owner who pays the fee)
If you were hoping to make the case for evidence-based nutrition and nutritional science on the backs of the America's fast food restaurants, I think you are in for a lot of disappointment.
I am Mexican and live in Mexico. It is true that family ties are quite strong here, but drinking is also very strong. I don't know where you get the idea of less binge drinking.
old, not most. Old people watch commercials with occasional break for content on tv
Honest actors can't compete with people who ignore the law though - you acknowledge yourself that the competition here is unfair. Yes, by ignoring copyright and not compensating content creators at all, you can create a service that offers vast amounts of content for free. A legitimate business can't do that.

Saying 'well, sorry, the market has spoken and the price they are willing to pay for your content is $0' is just not reasonable. It's like pointing to a guy selling stolen iPhones for $20 and telling Apple they need to adjust their prices to the new reality.
Ask HN: Want to diversify and perform code review as a service. Suggestions?
I have done bits of code review over the years. I'm keen to pursue doing it as a service. Anyone doing something similar or has suggestion on how to start, what to look out for, scope, rates, etc?

I'm primarily writing iOS and OS X apps, so that's where my current expertise is at.
Java is seriously nasty if you need to work with bitpacked representations of data structures. Big endian nonsense, no unsigned types, booleans that cannot be converted to integer types, no typedefs... gahhhh! It's really freaking hard to write optimised code in this stupid language.
Ah, TIL. I had no idea. Thanks for that.
Obviously not. The problem is that when a big, well-known company takes an anti-science stance like this, it persuades ignorant people.
Valve introduced DRM to the PC gaming world in late 2004

Utter nonsense. Have you never played an abandonware game from the late 80s and early 90s? "Enter the first letter of the third word on page 14 of the manual"? I used to get pirated Amiga 500 floppies with the copy protection stripped out and a little boot animation from the pirates inserted.

Valve introduced Steam to the PC gaming world... but then again, it's their product. And when all is said and done, Steam has been a significant net benefit.
This is just a guess, but I think the odex pass on dalvik switches the endianness to the architecture's native.
Modders should be able to ask for donations, nothing more. They should see this as an opportunity to create great content based off of a much larger and more established game. If they want to get compensated, perhaps their great content will take off and one day they can make their own standalone, but until then, donations only. See Counter-Strike, DayZ, Day of Defeat, Team Fortress, Insurgency, et al.
Microsoft phones infringe patents -U.S. Int'l Trade Commission judge
So how do you ensure that they don't keep logs?
>> you can sell entire portfolios and even unpatented ideas

How can you sell an unptaented(or maybe just loosely patent-pending idea you did the work yourself, as a non-lawyer) ?
I'll agree with you with the caveat that "just a nervous breakdown" might be a little dismissive.

Does he need a sabbatical? Absolutely. It sounds like after one-too-many classes of willfully unteachable students (as in students that refuse to learn, not students that are unable to learn), enough was enough and he had had it with these motherf%$&ing students in this motherf%$&ing school.

I think a lot of us here on HN can empathize with overwork and burnout, and it sounds like this professor may have ignored the warning signs for too long. I hope he can get the help he needs.
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Thirty Meter Telescope Website Falls Prey to Cyberattack
The whole thing is a sham, and unless it's backed up with a big financial stick, nothing will happen. A month or so back while abroad in the EU, my operator sent a message along the lines of 'Great news! Data roaming is free in the EU! We are AWESOME! Please note that this does not include email or internet access, and is restricted to web access. To our site."
yea, I learned too late in life, and I still am caught off guard. Times have changed, and I don't trust government, nor law enforcement. But, then again I can honestly state as I got older there's only a few people I trust.
> The HBO GO apps for things like Roku are also laughably bad.

I'm working on an app for DirecTV boxes right now. The experience on that won't be much better. They are horrible platforms for development. I'll never do a project like this again.
How does "violent resistance from the people" against officers who "show an indiscriminate disregard for the well being of those they're sworn to protect" involve burning down a family owned business[0] that has nothing to do with the Freddie Gray case? How can you justify such acts?

[0]:http://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2015/04/28/ctn-cuomo-liquor-sto...
I believe you, but I really think that has absolutely nothing to do with GMO, raher than the simple fact that fresh, homemade food is intrinsically better than store bought food, which is usually tuned for aesthetics and long shelf life as opposed to flavor.
Link to your blog? I'm certain it's vuln to xmlrpc vulns if you haven't updated it.
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> Compare this to the world of software development and open source - which is thriving. Mega corps & the little guy/girl building production quality libraries and systems which generate big ass revenue streams.

Open source software companies rarely generate money from software, it's almost all in services. Games don't have an equivalent services model e.g. "Hire iD rep to come to your house to install the latest Quake Mods $175/hr, minimum engagement 6 months FTE"
Gabe has acknowledged how horrible the customer support is and they are, supposedly, working on a solution.

I count myself fortunate to have never needed to interact with the customer support. <knocks on wood>
Although it might be better to do a web search yourself and choose a source that seems trustworthy to you, I can provide you with this one for example: http://www.indianmirror.com/ayurveda/rosemary.html
Its arguable they should charge a fixed rate for facilitating the creation of the mod. Not a percentage of all downloads. I know, its common for content delivery platforms to charge a percentage, but its far from logical. Its just traditional. In the sense of 'what the market will bear'.
And sometimes it's deemed "sports fans taking to the streets".

http://mic.com/articles/116680/11-stunning-images-highlight-...
In Technical Sales, Questions Are More Valuable Than Answers
People have been protesting peacefully in Baltimore all last week with 0 answers from the police or elected officials. No media was talking about it, there was no Freddie Gray thread on hackernews, but now the whole world is talking about it.
Scientists are turning salt water into drinking using solar power
It was called atomic gardening and hasn't been that popular in quite a while,

a) because understandably customers may have concerns and
b) results are very, very random

Here's one in Japan that seems to be still active: https://www.google.com/maps?q=2425,+Kamimurata,+Hitachiohmiy...

The circle in the middle is the radiation source, and the further away the plants were planted the less mutations occurred, with the plants right next to the source dying.
You're assuming zaphar reads/comprehends the same way you do. I can't read that fast period, and if i'm reading fast don't comprehend as much, but I have first hand experience with how good zaphar's comprehension is when he is reading very fast. It has some to do with how deeply he concentrates by nature, something he was born with that I wasn't.
Ah, I see you are advocating a new system where injustices are answered with further injustices.
The $60 pays for the game, but to develop a mod for it, you're using tools they've made for the game. They didn't have to provide those tools, they're an additional service that Bethesda offers. Bethesda also added workshop support in the first place. 45% is outrageous, but a 10% cut would be acceptable and help fund the development of better tools and improvements to the mod community.
More than pathetic, it proves that a subset of the protestors aren't really sympathetic to the cause - because this does nothing to solve racial tension, if anything, it exacerbates.
Exactly the reason what is wrong with the world in general. You can't be arse to read a few pages, but I bet you feel entitled to an opinion, right? I bet you have opinions on many things. How did you form them? By reading tl;dr versions in the newspaper and discussing with friend on the dinner table?
'Anti-scientific nonsense' suggests a measure of zealotry and someone who thinks they have total command of all the facts. How wonderful to be so sure. Don't you think a somewhat more circumspect tone would be appropriate and more persuasive?

I guess the 'anti-scientific folk' in Switzerland, Australia, Austria, China, India, France, Germany, Hungary, Luxembourg, Greece, Bulgaria, Poland, Italy, and Russia who have banned GMO crops altogether are beyond the pale.
Hm except for HN, which has 3 comments about Valve's decision to change their mod rates, for every one about Baltimore.
Hijacking for visibility (I'm so late to the party..)

Valve has not ended the paid mods programme. They've only turned it off for Skyrim.

From the Valve post:

> We're going to remove the payment feature from the Skyrim workshop.

They're very explicitly removing it only from Skyrim.

Personally, I'm completely okay with the paid mod system - and I think the reason it failed so spectacularly was because of Bethesda and the invisibleness of the "Valve takes 30%, Bethesda takes 45%" - But it is important to note
Link to HN front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9451652.
Why do many countries with cold climate didn't have these issues while many countries with hot climate tend to do?

Why do countries which didn't have unsafe streets now do after immigration?
You don't fling uncompressed video between apps like that, it goes straight to the hardware-accelerated h.264 (or whatever) encoder and then a low bandwidth stream comes out. Local AF_UNIX sockets (aka userspace dbus) provide ample bandwidth for that use case.
the police say a lot of things though don't they.
> It is because the industry has done a great job as labeling the critics as anti-science.

It's not "the industry" doing the labeling, scientific consensus isn't so easily bought - if it were oil companies (who have far more money than Monsanto et al) would have made sure the science on climate change was on their side.

In another comment[1] I provided several links you may find useful in making a more informed opinion.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9451873
That's what Linus is saying: hey, BE is basically dead and you shouldn't use it, but if you really really want to use it, that's fine as long as you don't go for dynamic switching.
I never understood why Vodafone didn't do it. They have a massive presence globally (wikipedia says networks in 21 countries and partners in 40), and they could overnight capture 100% of the traveling businessman market if they'd get all their networks under one tariff.
But the reason it's not a profession is that it's currently not possible to be paid for it.

Make that possible and you'd then have some professional modders and some amateur ones.
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
Breaking News: sometimes teachers have depressive flameouts just like every other kind of person.

There's not really anything to take from this article. When this sort of thing happens, the department hands the class off to someone else, the instructor is disciplined in some way, and life goes on. The students won't receive an ideal semester's worth of instruction, but that happens sometimes. The university probably ought to find some way to let students who want to take the class over to do so at no cost, but I have no idea if that's likely. The students who would rather not take the class over shouldn't have to. One class is not going to make or break their education. Meanwhile, they've learned that sometimes spectacular flameouts happen, and they have an interesting story to tell for the rest of their lives.
While I agree in sprit, I don't think that a quote like that should be spoken at a press conference, chopped, twisted and hashed by the media and then interpreted by already irrational protestors. It's encouraging violence and destruction of others property.
You're talking about memfd, I think? That has nothing to do with kdbus in particular. It's an independent syscall that replaces many use cases for splice/vmsplice, even though it was introduced as part of the kdbus project - it's still a separate thing.
Game theory elucidates the collective behavior of bosons
Nagios vs Icinga: the story of one of the most heated forks in free software
I like Pancheros Mexican Grill better, but they are basically the same type of place. I don't mind Chipotle and would pick it over a burger joint.
That's an awfully big assumption. Was the fact that the police beat this guy and cracked his spine reported in the Baltimore Sun yesterday?

There has been no conclusion that that is the case. Those that are rioting are guilty of exactly what they accuse the police of. I believe the mayor called them "thugs".
Resorting to authority is a weak argument. There's logic and history as well - like the history of nobody ever got ill from GMOs. Or the logic of, we've massively altered wild foods for millennia and had no issues; why is it different to do it in the lab?

But instead we have populist fear holding sway in all those countries instead.
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Agreed.

The fact that it can be so heavily modded is what drives continued sales long after the initial release.
And the cops helped start the riots by throwing rocks at protestors. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/27/police-throw-rocks-...
Who's trying to solve racial tension? People are just asking that the police do not beat them up and/or kill them.
They do understand. A huge amount of the outrage and criticism on sites like reddit, 4chan and NeoGAF acknowledge that the basic idea of paying for mods has its potential to reward creative modders and result in some increase in quality modding.

But the frustration in this instance is mainly about the specific implementation. Paid modding was being forced onto a game and a mod community never designed to tolerate it. There were simply way too many complications for it be simply a case of: pay money, eventually get better mods. Skyrim modding is too haphazard and a legal and ethical mess. Plus it is a community that had survived for years and produced many quality mods without any formal financial system to aide it at all.

As an avid gamer it is quite frustrating to see people dismiss this outrage as "gamers not knowing what's good for them" or "entitled gamers not wanting to pay for something they expect to be free" when it is a lot more nuanced than that.
two wrongs = one right?

IF this event leads to better policing, you'll have an argument.

Nobody that holds power is thinking "these people deserve more" right now.
But the article ends with a student expressing disbelief as he did decent work and getting an F before the class even ends, and the professor acknowledging that some students were fine, but that he exercised collective punishment because it was his only instrument.

That seems pretty clear cut to me, definitely a bad move. It can't be justified, solves no problems and punishes innocent students.

I'd understand why he'd fail some of his students, and I can also imagine situations where it's tricky to pinpoint and isolate the unwilling students from his class, and if made out to be a clown day in day out, lacking the proper instruments, management backing and (understandably) mental fortitude, that you'd leave the school at some point.

But how that translates to giving an F to an entire class, including students who bore no responsibility and were as powerless to keep the class going the right way as he was, is beyond me.
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Papers come with their own tldr. It's not because people are lazy, but because that's all most people reading it actually need.

This is in contrast to many op-eds, blog posts, and even news articles, which intentionally make it hard to find a summary, disperse shallow content between ads, just like to hear their own voice, or other such behaviours that are worth avoiding.

I think asking for a tldr here is mistaking the former for the latter (an honest mistake).
> so Valve slapped on another 30% while not providing any or minimal QA from Valve

Valve was charging 30% for operating the storefront, handling payment, the value of having spent years building a site where people are willing to come and pay for things, the value of having built a service that would allow modders to make money building off of another company's work, and so on. Valve's 30% was well deserved.
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"I contend that the cry of 'black power' is, at bottom, a reaction to the reluctance of white power to make the kind of changes necessary to make justice a reality for the Negro. I think that we've got to see that a riot is the language of the unheard." ― Martin Luther King Jr.
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