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dbus is a server which applications use to talk to each other. Lots of applications started using it because it served their needs. dbus integration makes things go smoother since everybody else is already using it. The systemd NTP client is just another NTP client like any other you'd install. What could possibly make other parts of the system require that this specific service is running when it doesn't interact with applications?
If you want the social mission, why not just join 18F or the U.S. Digital Services? Work directly for the gov and change from within.
I like the name. A platform to leave our 'kwakjes'. And in real-time.
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Create a Deck of cards in JavaScript
Facebook is throwing it's weight behind Atom. They are not forking Atom, but rather contributing their improvements back to Atom. They are developing their Nuclide IDE with Atom packages. Atom is still young, but has a bright future. Free and open source is very attractive for lots of us.
Fun. This looks like a systems dynamics model. Many useful models use differential equations, and there are many substrates to provide that kind of computation (springs, hydraulics, analog electronics, digital electronics).

And now a slight tangent about "computational substrates". The same applies to quantum computing -- there are many ways to make a qubit.
This looks exactly like Shout[1]. This seems to be an IRC channel, and you have a web interface (using Shout) hosted on your domain, with some of Shout's features removed so that people can't use it to connect to other IRC servers. And you aren't giving any credit to Shout.

*EDIT: My apologies, I totally jumped the gun there. I didn't see the "?" at the bottom, which states that that's exactly what this is. I still think that you could give a little more credit to them, though. In my opinion, this is more than just "based" on Shout, as your credits say.

[1]:http://shout-irc.com/
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You were downvoted because your comment added nothing to the conversation, and came off as sour grapes. (You may not have intended it to sound so, but I read this as, "I submit essentially the same material 15 days ago but nobody gave me karma for it. waaa").

The HN karma system is the elephant in the room. Everyone knows it affects behavior, but you're supposed to pretend like it isn't there.
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English food is improving but there are still some shockers to be found. Having a molten lump of cheddar cheese in a curry when you are expecting paneer (as stated on the menu) makes you wonder if the chef tries their own food.
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> Life in prison without parole is cheaper than the death penalty

...at the moment.

I bet if you ran the numbers for the 1930's, for instance, when the average time from conviction to execution was 14.4 months (the range was 4.6 months to 46.1 months) [1], the death penalty would come out cheaper than life without parole.

The cost argument is a risky one for death penalty opponents, since the cost can be fixed either by getting rid of the death penalty or by making it more efficient.

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=8cYom4BacjMC&lpg=PA164&ots...
Ok, but then what is the justification for increasing the fares? So Uber can further pad their marketing budget?
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Indeed, an open source license does not ensure a better quality of product, and nor does a proprietary one. Free/Libre Open source software gives users various freedoms, which many people like (myself included). It also opens the door to a wide community of hackers, to help improve upon and speed up development.

If Linux remained the sole project of Linus, it would be nowhere near as effective as it is being out in the open, so to speak.
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For a while I have wanted to take on work as a contractor/consultant but I do not know where to start. I do not even know how people find jobs to be bid on. Elance/Odesk seem to be overrun with cheap labor or impossible requirements for the allowed pay rate. Any other contractors out there care to share how they got started?
TIL.

I have edited my comment to account for smalltalk.
Ask HN: Is Dvorak worth it?
I've been considering forcing myself to learn Dvorak for a while now, but I've been wondering about how much value there could be in switching. Has anyone here gone through with the switch? How was the learning process? How did your typing fare in the transitional period (i.e. did your QWERTY speed decrease as you learned Dvorak)?
This seems like a roadblock that is rather inherent to the app container model of making images of host OS subsystems partitioned into their own namespaces.

I thought that the idiomatic usage was not to treat them as distros, but as immutable images that you simply tear down and provision when a major system state change transaction needs to be performed?

Package introspection and sharing seems like something people would run a CM or task runner on the containers for. Hence the whole move to build large orchestration suites for them.

Not sure what is exactly meant by "order dependence" in this context.

Package manager cruft is just bad resource management, or sometimes even deficiencies in the PM itself.
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The situation you describe is not one I experience in web APPS. I DO experience it on blogs/news ALL THE TIME and it's normally due to ads being injected. I'm sorry but that's a completely different example then what I'm talking about and rarely due to a framework. I even said:

> If we are talking about a blog then sure, needing JS is just stupid, my blog works just fine with or without JS but if I'm building a web app there is no way I can reasonably deliver both a cutting edge JS web app AND a static, submit-the-page-to-do-anything app.
Your boss slaps you on the ass?
that reminds me a bit of lush [http://lush.sourceforge.net/], one of a small handful of languages that i really feel should have made the jump to at least haskell-level popularity.

hn actually had a lush discussion recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9602430
Bitbucket having UI issues
I recently found that MP3 upload fails if you have Unicode MP3 tags. Would have thought that a bug like this would have been fixed by now.
I _do_ have a problem with employers abusing what a 1099 is.

Uber drivers don't cut it.

McDonalds employees don't cut it.

There are a list of things required for being a 1099 employee which involves a whole lot of autonomy for the contractor which are very commonly not provided.

Likewise I wouldn't believe a similar argument about employers paying minimum wages because 'nobody is forcing them'
I guess so, but that doesn't seem like a bad thing to do right after a terrorist attack.
FreeBSD had the first FOSS alternative with jails, then Solaris with zones. In the intermediate Linux had OpenVZ, but that was a much different container model and required kernel patching.
http://www.golem.de/news/systemd-und-launchd-freebsd-gruende...
You are looking at the implementation. Most people are using it, not trying to extend it. As noted by many others, WP is popular because it gets the job done for the users in a "worst is better" sort of way.

http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html
Yet you constantly see Clojure enthusiasts droning on about their interactive development setup, all while poorly emulating what hot swapping did 10 years ago.

Kids.
Exactly. Why pay for more capital and labor expenses to convert existing productive real estate into a generic, anodyne hotel experience with amenities like daily housekeeping service that I don't need? One that's probably located in the tourist-trap district? Instead, I can utilize existing capital more efficiently and enjoy myself in a real part of San Francisco designed for actual human beings, and spend the savings on something more relevant to my interests (like more frequent travel). Almost certainly this means more profits going to local businesses -- and to the homeowner as well, who is more likely to spend them locally than HotelCorp.

Granted, there are some contract issues if the host rents the apartment instead of owning it, and there is a risk of some externalities (chronic noisy guests upsetting neighbors) which could be managed with light regulation... but surely the idea is a sound one which should be embraced and encouraged. Right?

And those would-be unionized hotel employees would be there to do useful work for fair pay, no? They're not charity cases and I should't feel bad or feel compelled to use their services if I don't need those services at all, right?

</counter-rant>
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Can a progressive democrat please explain to me why their hero is supporting this?

PS To those trying to claim he isn't a progressive... Obama may not be the progressive you want, but he is the one you deserve.
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From the blog post: Is this true? Are software developers “geeks” that lack clout and respect with the “business people”?

Oh, yes, absolutely. You don't see H-1B visas for "business people" or lawyers do you? That alone should tip off who's in charge. Those in charge are not going to import cheap replacements for themselves, only for those not in charge.

As for "why", I suspect that the significant fraction of programmers who don't play office politics (I grant that it's not all programmers, but a large portion of them) means that there's no respect. Also, I believe that "business people" are at least subconsciously afraid of getting automated out of existence, or of having their secret(s) stolen. So, they marginalize programmers. I think you also have to consider that scapegoats are necessary for large projects - major portions of any large project come in late and over budget, or maybe just wrong. Gotta have a scapegoat to hang that on. Programmers are an obvious target due to the lack of political savvy, and having to deal with the reality of hardware, software, etc. Hang blame on a convenient group often enough, and that group ends up not being respected.
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Atwood's Law: "Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript."
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another are just pure evil killing noob players, stealing everything they own and then troll them till they cry and leave the game forever.

I have always hated people like that. I realize that griefers are a part of the game and even a part of life but they really do ruin the fun for so many people that I'd prefer to be rid of them.
C++ template metaprogramming is turing complete. So why not write a simple compiler that targets it. Then you can write any program as a template metaprogram.
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This is something you get so used to with Lisp that later any environment that doesn't support it seems unnecessarily and terribly constrained. SLIME + Common Lisp is a wonderful toolset.
It's also $120 for a commercial license that only includes 1 year worth of upgrades. Anything with the "updates for a year" instead of "updates until the next major release" is off-putting to me.
Worked out for Blender. Depends on community I giess.
Indeed, this was a dev POV. I understand the appeal for 'userspace', WP is mainstream, big numbers are reassuring, and you can always find someone to fix issues (you shouldn't have) or at least make you feel like things are possible.
It's not about Wordpress it's about their plugin system and themes. You cannot copy that universe surrounding Wordpress. Maybe one which is close in basic functionality is Ghost https://github.com/TryGhost but again... it is missing functionality. One thing which is interesting is replacing the motor which runs Wordpress (like FB has done) with HipHop VM to have JIT/compiled sourcecode. Example: https://www.flockport.com/deploy-wordpress-with-hhvm-and-php...
At least four reasons. Americans are used to the system they have, it doesn't cause any meaningful economic problems domestically (complaints come almost exclusively from foreigners). Businesses specifically want to show you the price they're charging you, as apart from the taxes they're forced to collect; that also enables businesses to charge a bit more in the rounding schemes (eg sell a blu-ray for $5 headline price, charge tax after; if they had to build tax into it, they'd lose ~6% on the pricing to use the rounding promotion approach). The US has 50 states with different tax schemes, that's a nightmare for labeling goods.

For example, usually a bag of chips at Target or Walmart or a convenience store will say eg $3.99 printed on the bag. Some stores will slap their own dominant label on there, others choose not to.

Vendors often stock the shelves at stores, especially for certain categories of products, and store types. The chip delivery guy will stock the convenience store, Walmart, etc.

Chip production (eg Doritos) and delivery is limited to just a few factories, but they distribute to every state. For convenience, for decades, the companies have typically pre-stamped prices on chip bags.

So why not do it with hotels? Because no other segment of the economy tends to do it, and for the other reason mentioned: it cuts into price rounding advertising methods (or you have to raise prices to the next rounding).

If you want taxes built into the pricing on consumer goods, either they have to stop price labeling before delivery, or customize for every state. At this point, nobody really wants to change, because the system works fine as is. Ie it's good enough, but not perfect.
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There typically aren't any lodging taxes. The VAT varies, but hovers around 19-25% (per country).

Your answer doesn't make sense though. Laws around price display need to be consumer-centric, not provider-centric. Why should a place in a high-tax location be able to compete with a place in a low-tax location by fooling the customer?
I was hoping this article was going to argue that driving a manual transition is safer than an automatic. Unfortunately I was disappointed.

>Nowadays, though, more than 96 percent of cars sold in the US are automatic, and the remainder are disproportionately sports cars.
Ask how many shares have been authorized. Thats determined bybthe board of directors.
Immutable images are the name of the game. Any sort of surgical update to image A would result in image A-prime.

Any sort of orchestration system will help to run containers and will know what images you are running but not which packages you are running inside those images.

With something like this a cluster admin could find all the containers across a 10k node cluster are running an unpatched version of openssl. Or could block running containers that are using unapproved packages.

"Order dependence" is the fact that Dockerfile is stictly linnear -- even when 2 steps won't interact in any way. It makes caching and reuse more difficult.
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Look back at your code, see how many man-hours it has saved AND cost, subtract the two, and there's your answer :)
Appdirect.com is working on something similar. From my experience with cloud marketplaces there is still a high cost to support onboarding unsophisticated SMBs post-sale - this includes initial setup / integration, migrating from legacy platforms, end-user training, etc.

SMBs are price sensitive, so charging what it costs you to deliver this will decrease adoption and subsidizing this cost can take too long to recoup.

A good example of this is Office 365. Let's say your profit margins are $2/user/month and you spend 3 hours onboarding a new 10 seat customer at a cost to you of $1/minute on the phone. It will take you 9 months to recoup your onboarding cost ($180 in cost / $20/profit/month).

Self service adoption can be possible depending on the product if there is no need for integration or legacy data migration, however products that require these activities see a high rate of drop off in the self-service channel because SMBs often times aren't sophisticated enough to solve these challenges themselves, don't use the service and churn out after a couple of months.

Additionally, if the customer has a poor onboarding experience with the first product they've purchased you lose their trust and it makes it very hard to cross sell and upsell other services.
Ok, I can see that - amongst a group of kids. I don't care for karma.

I wanted to show that this has been here "for a while".
totally agree on that. I've seen so many people which are non programmers but they can somehow customize Wordpress. Is not that incredible... people using and maintaining a software without beeing a programmer? (For the record I also dislike PHP and many Wordpress internals).
tldr: "bla bla, we are lazy, not bothered"

:)
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