skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll pitch in with a neutral position. I've been using btrfs for four years, and in that time I've had unrecoverable fs corruption probably three times. This is on Arch, on bleeding edge kernels, where new releases are prone to regressions that break the filesystem.

But there was a tangible progression from instability towards increasing stability. I haven't had one lick of issue with btrfs in about a dozen kernel releases. I'm close to saying I'd trust in a production environment, since I use it everywhere else as a daily driver, I would just use an LTS release version just to be safe.

It is not all sunshine and roses, though. While Facebook employs several major btrfs developers, a lot of features that have been talked about for years still have not seen the light of day or any development whatsoever. lz4 compression, better checksum algorithms, per-subvolume encryption, online filesystem checking, and the Raid 5/6 support is still kind of garbage a year later. I worry that btrfs is suffering from a lack of interest in actually making the last legitimate pushes it needs, and code audits, and integration testing, to make it truly trustworthy.

But at the end of the day checksum integrity and COW are basically a game changer for me in terms of data integrity.
US company views China a good to have, but not live or death market. Native Chinese company does not. it's the vital difference that matters.

Take Google for example. will it break the copyright law to provide MP3 download for its own survival in USA? I bet yes. But in China, it won't. It's not an issue of morality, or suppression of Chinese Community Party.

Amazon VS. Alibaba. Jack Ma personally visited clients to seal deals, would Jeff Bezos do the same to his Chinese clients? I don't think so.

MSN VS. QQ. In 2005/6, 10m+ Chinese MSN users were assaulted by a social engineering hack. It only took 6 months for MS to recognised the issue. Tencent normally reacts in 48 hours.

Twitter VS. Sina Weibo. When Sina decided to do Weibo, it was a full scale operation with so many functions Chinese users loved that even if Twitter was allowed in Chinese market, it would lose in weeks.

when you are playing a market game in China, facing competitors whose lives are in stake, the result is obvious. Your competitors would do anything to survive, including breaking laws, lobbying/bribing govt./officers.
By 2012 (since she took over), Facebook had won the social war. And Yahoo had nothing of note to pull in the next generation (for whom FB bought IG).
http://open-zfs.org/wiki/Hardware#Background

This would seem to indicate that this sort of thing is exceedingly rare and similar issues would have similar effects on other filesystems.
With the amount of publicity that Apple gets, it would be silly for them to not properly address this issue in a way that both furthers their current pro privacy stance but also caters to their customers.
And your comment is also a strawman, because people get kicked out of shelters for simple possession.
The blog post implements the "resizing server" on nginx to prevent the hits on application server. One alternative is to use AWS Lambda which has a sample code solution precisely on S3 image thumnailing.
Lamborghini's Newest Patent Drawing in the EU
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicabs_of_Hong_Kong
Wait, so you couldn't add a file via the web before? I haven't used github except for pulling the source to projects but I would expect this was feature #1.
They could adopt btrfs. Darwin is open source, right?
Apple is currently required because there is an outstanding court order. I'm not sure if they have submitted a formal appeal.

I do think there are some interesting questions about "forced work" here, but that can be said of any subpoena, and I don't think many would contest the entire concept.

From my standpoint: Apple can prove critical in obtaining whatever evidence/information may be on the device. It may certainly be the case that there is nothing valuable there, but such events should be thoroughly investigated. This was a personal computing device of a person who killed many, we need to know what is on it, and we can. It wouldn't surprise me if Apple were already working on the software.
Stevie gave me access a few weeks ago, I'm working on a product on top of Teller. What he's working on is really exciting and enables developers to build all kinds of apps they couldn't do previously.
Interesting!

Random thought: If this catches on in a big way, have you thought of how the system will deal with the fundamentally political nature of some areas of medical research? Real effort is going into trying to subvert this process at the source, so why not the summary?
Rogue Wave introduces continuous static code analysis
Discussion of the Secure Enclave has no bearing on the practicality of the FBI's request. The iPhone the FBI is asking Apple to break into is an older model that doesn't have a Secure Enclave.

It's pretty well accepted at this point that Apple is capable of complying with the FBI's request. The big question is whether Apple would be capable of complying with a similar request with a newer iPhone that includes a Secure Enclave.
Is she qualified? Maybe.

My question is, what are the qualifications of the person that actually got the job?
> Here's an article from May of 2015 that says that 75% of Google's mobile search revenue comes from iOS,

Ah, the other figure from a report from Goldman Sachs that nobody has seen but it is now dogma.

When you find the report, please, put it.

And, by the way, using Appleinsider as source is very funny
That's a good distinction to make.
Why the need for a logger/skimmer?

Touch ID has been proven to be vulnerable to fingerprint clones for years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM8b8d8kSNQ

Edit: Yes, not broken but also not 100% secure.
I have never heard of regression towards the mean in profits. It certainly doesn't exist for stock prices. You would actually tend to observe trends - the opposite phenomenon. For example, Google would have a 20% increase in profits on one quarter and another similar increase the following quarter but not a sudden loss caused by a regression to the mean.
This is NYT supporting the Establishment, by mocking Apple's position.
I think most people here are already well aware of Tarsnap... but I'm always happy to answer questions.
They hatch from the egg in the chicken or egg equation.
Getting my degree many, many years after entering the field

So would you say you had experiential learning in the subject matter of the classes you were being allowed to skip after demonstrating both evidence of this experiential learning and the attendant competency?

Testing out of a course due to earned knowledge is different from passing a multiple choice exam with Cliff Notes awareness of the material.
There's one missing point on this post that I believe is important. I don't blame them for not putting on there either though since it's a bit intangible:

YC really encourages commitment. Commitment to your idea and co-founders. That commitment inspires a lot of motivation to do a lot with little in a very small amount of time.

You go from a rag tag group working on weekends and evenings due to school or your day job to a competitive, hungry machine ready to usurp your market leader.

The effect of the peer pressure amongst your batch mates continuously making progress each week is substantial.

YMMV - it worked for us at Mixpanel.
I hate college essays, and now professors use my jeremiad in class
> What am I missing here?

The concept of Secure Enclave, for one.
Google, Apple strike different tone on security fight with government
>open app
>get cab

There is nothing special or unique about Uber. Yes, their app is pretty. Yes, they are ubiquitous around the world. But there is nothing about it that cannot be copied by a Chinese state-owned enterprise. One could argue Uber's only major advantage is its waterfall of investors.

Uber's most significant long tail value is their heaps of traffic flow and passenger data. Sounds like the exact kind of thing a rich and historically totalitarian regime would want for themselves. And if you want to spot patterns in a potential dissident, it helps to know where they go.
Quick short-term fix is to stand the laptop on a pile of books and plug in a cheap USB keyboard......
How young democracies of central Europe are threatened by their leaders
It shows "Feb 18, 2016" for me. Maybe something was momentarily out of sync somehow.
There's probably a good case study to be made here on why so many people have had bad experiences with GlusterFS. If the problem is that it's too easy to set it up in a fragile way, then they need to fix that, because otherwise you're going to end up with a lot unhappy users (as you can see in the other comments).

Still, if I can't make it work well on a reasonably small scale, why would I expect it to work any better when I scale it up?
> They definitely did advertise themselves with the motto "Do No Evil," which they dropped some time ago,

Google has not dropped that motto
I think you are just writing markdown in .org files ^^

So the .md is technically more correct. But really the extension doesn't matter much...
It can be.

Too much ambition can lead to losing sight of practicality, burn out, high stress, anxiety, depression, high turnover, as well as losing site of the bigger picture.
I teach English and technical writing, and now I'm tempted to use both the original essay and this essay in class.

Essays in school are tough as a genre (http://jakeseliger.com/2011/12/02/paul-graham-and-not-being-...), but the chief problem with getting rid of them is simple: What's the best alternative?
A Better Tool to Calculate the Cost of Building a Website
I was wondering if an additional cookie based security token is possible with secure_link module. (show image only if session cookie is present)

Apparently, it is possible, great! One of the google results: https://gist.github.com/hilbix/5921589
HN is not a peer-reviewed journal. It's a place for conversation.

monkmartinez has made higher-quality contributions to this conversation than we could ever hope to see in so controversial a thread. Because of that, what would normally have been a trainwreck discussion has, astonishingly, been pretty good. Let's not disparage that as "anecodotal".

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11126175 and marked it off-topic.
Companies are groups of people. Trying to disparage them as some force outside humanity is great for getting laid in college, but it's not an accurate reflection of what is really happening, so it's not a helpful attitude when addressing problems.
Saturated much? See:

http://onlycoin.com

http://plastc.com

http://walla.by

http://swypcard.com

http://startoscard.com

https://www.imaginecurve.com
Why make it easier?
Depending on your screen rez, the sidebar may be collapsed by default. Hit `[` (or click the `>>`) to pop it out to see descriptions alongside the icons.
IBM and SoftBank Introduce Japanese Language Watson APIs
> I was a bit pissed off when I wrote the original comment due to this unexpected twist. Obviously not their fault, but it sucks that the two most viable cloud providers are now both in the fucking retail world.

Google isn't really in the retail world (well, except for Google Store which sells a limited array of Google-branded devices, Chromebooks, etc.) -- Google Express (the service expanding into fresh grocery delivery here) is a delivery service that partners with retailers like Target, Whole Foods, Raleys/BelAir, Costco, etc., and it has been doing so since 2013 for dry goods.
I'd better go file a patent. :)
This is a cool little project showcasing some of NginX's lesser known modules in action.

However, I have one nitpick.

The caching server's main location is a bit of a cargo-cult unoptimization. They have specified:

location ^/(.+)$ {

When the equivalent:

location / {

Is shorter, clearer, and does not incur a regular expression capture on every request that is never used.
Don't they need to redesign all the climate models now that gravitational waves exist? A giant wave would make the sun closer to the earth and thus global warming.
My qualifications to comment on this: I teach at a private Texas university, and my wife teaches at UT. I am part of the faculty governing body which advised the board of trustees for my university on whether to exercise the right to opt out of the law.

> The University of Texas at Austin has begrudgingly agreed to allow students to carry guns into classrooms, months after state lawmakers passed a bill outlawing gun bans at public universities.

As the second part of the sentence indicates, this isn't so much a choice as a decision to comply with a law (which, I suppose, is a choice). I don't know why the president is presenting it as such, since it seems only to shift responsibility on to him for a decision that is not legally his to make (and whose result he doesn't, or professes not to, like). Public universities do not have the same 'opt-out' right as private universities.

While allowing limited exemptions for 'gun-free zones' (I don't remember the exact language)—one example mentioned is a single-occupant office, if its sole occupant decides to make it so—the bill specifically mentions that universities cannot perform an end run around the legislation by declaring, say, all classrooms to be gun-free zones.
We'll deal with that if it really catches on, but if that happens I'd say it's a better problem to have than no one wanting it at all :)

If you have any ideas we'd love to hear them though!
Conveniently for defense contractors, only the F22, F35, and B2 are immune, according to a completely unsourced assertion!
Does the image_filter module use the GPU?

Image filtering is an expensive operation for the CPU, with large latencies as well.
You are dead right. Bribes that are simply a part of the game in China are a punishable offence in the West.

Another reason foreign social networks tend to be blocked in China: if someone makes a post on Weibo or Renren that the party doesn't like, they can simply have it removed without fanfare...along with the poster...
1. Mortgage brokerages are not financial advice brokerages. A mortgage broker finds the best deal for the consumer, usually for products that are more or less the same.

2. A financial planner or investment advisory is about helping a client gauge what product works best for their particular situation, and being able to communicate the very real downsides of certain courses of action.

3. An insurance broker acts in a very similar way to #2, in that there are some very real concerns that may not be obvious to the layperson that the broker should be providing advice on. For example: what a health insurance product covers, and why (for example) not providing coverage for children in your female dominated company could result in very real losses to your employees, and by extension, you as a company.

>Put client's answers in brokerage program; Choose highest commission in top 10; Recommend product

..is PRECISELY the type of thing that licensing is designed to protect the consumer from.

Group health insurance is extremely complex, particularly in the US where it is really the ONLY health insurance a person has. These are people's lives we're talking about here...you can't wait until you HAVE cancer to find out that your plan doesn't cover it.

The only thing this entire thread is showing is exactly why not having licensed, knowledgeable professionals advising on insurance is a very real concern.
Agreed. I viewed the source of the page and immediately saw one of my pet peeves--a blank document body that is dynamically replaced via script.

As I typically browse unfamiliar sites with scripts disabled, loading a blank page is instant failure for the site.

You build a barebones static page first, and then you add bells and whistles.

But then, after enabling script, what do I see? Images filled with mostly text. Aaaaaaaaaaaarrrrgh... I bet they weren't even crushed.

Luckily for her, no business in its right mind would ask someone like me to evaluate any new marketing hires. Engineer-types and marketer-types in the same company are like mortal enemies, forced by circumstance to work together toward a common goal.
That's a pretty uninformed opinion. YC is a collection of smart people trying to build things...

That "fancy apartment" is the cheapest place you can find in Mountain View with 4 people stuffed in, half sleeping on the floor.

How many YC founders go on to business school? I've heard of none, but I'm sure there are a few... But do you have anything backing up that people go to YC for that reason?

I think I went to one party during the course of YC. In fact, all I really did was build product and talk to users. It's one of the mantras of YC and anyone not following that advice certainly isn't seen as a "cool kid".

Probably not worth trying to change your opinion, but you're 100% wrong on every point (except the first if you define "cool kids" as people working hard trying to build things).
I managed to get an almost invisible hairline crack in my screen - could only really see it with the right angle. Made a genius bar appointment then sat around for an hour waiting whilst they were swamped. A nice lady appeared, looked at the screen, was impressed how subtle the crack was, and then gave me a new phone rather than fixing the screen because they'd kept me hanging around for an hour.

Compared with every other customer service experience I've had, this is gold standard and means I'll almost certainly keep buying Apple kit (although my current battery issues aren't being handled as effectively, mind.)
Python has always been under attack because people using it are busy making things instead of wasting time with language debates.

Just because Python doesn't have zealots doesn't men its dying.
http://blog.codinghorror.com/to-ecc-or-not-to-ecc/

At least Jeff doesn't believe much in ECC anymore.
A Collection of brain games
"Whoosh!"
10x.engineer
>> they jump through a lot of hoops to protect their customers from bad experiences,

I would say Apple is one of the best, if not the best company for customer service, but I wouldn't go so far as to make a blanket statement like that.

There are a lot of 2011 Macbook Pro owners (me being one of them) who would disagree.

There were thousands of complaints in the Apple support forums, several articles in major Apple/Tech blogs, etc. It took well over a year for the issue to be acknowledged. In that regard, I'm kinda jealous how fast this Error 53 thing got resolved.
(Disclaimer: I have a stake in https://www.kattis.com/)

Not all of "these tools" use stress as part of the evaluation. Kattis is one example that allow candidates unlimited amount of time. However it should be noted I think it's possible to increase the time using these other tools up to some max limit.
Wtf? I cracked my iPhone 5S and took it to an Apple Store and they told me it was impossible to repair, and sold me a new iPhone for $400!
don't race to the bottom as a foreign firm against locals in China. you won't win. they will go much lower and harder and longer than you will. they will turn the heat off in the -12C winter and have people coding in their parkas to save cash.

i hung out with some of the Uber e-staff and founders when they were in China. i think the most memorable quote was "there's what works for every other country in the world and then there's China".

i think they stood a chance if they had positioned themselves as an upscale service. foreign brands convey status. they could have had something there that the locals didn't. but that's not what they're doing everywhere else in the world, and i understand them not being willing to split their strategy for the market.

so i guess they went with firepower. and i would guess they knew it had a low chance of success. entry into China is hard. that trail is lined with bodies, every drop of blood sucked dry.

it's difficult understand until you see it for yourself. there are people arranging fake uber rides online to split the subsidies. but they had some idea. it's a big market and Uber has a lot of cash, but $1B is still a big bet with such bad odds.
So if none of the Linux kernel developers sues Canonical for using a OpenZFS kernel module, Canonical can carry on with it and nothing of value was lost.
yeah, it is a bit too black-and-white

Microsoft is doing great stuff with it in finance, ads, and MR is doing amazing stuff.
I think you are confused what Github Pages is: https://pages.github.com

Specifically, my method involves using drag-and-drop .md files for the Jekyll workflow.
Thank you Jheriko.

I kind of blew 1.0.0 (thus the patch bump) but hopefully it's all ok now.

I still need to give it a nicer website (and I'm making the changes you sent me directly), but it's out there now, and I really hope people enjoy using it as much as I enjoyed making it.
I agree that it's not bound to any political position, but it's more egregious with the left right now.

Or possibly, based off of my media consumption, I only see the left's witchunts and I'm insulated from the right's.
If, as the article asserts, HQ-9 incorporates Patriot missile technology given to them by Israel, conventional aircraft would certainly not be safe.
Just wanted to say thanks for posting this. Loved it.
Looking through their blog, they had a dry spell from November 16 (release of the new Repository look) to January 27 when they released the new Markdown comment editor. This is, of course, because of the holidays. Then they released the improved GitHub Importer on February 11 and now PR/Issue Templates and File Uploading yesterday and today.

Prior to the repository redesign, they released Git LFS and the Integrations Directory on October 1. So they had a full month and a half between feature releases not attributable to the holidays.

I definitely appreciate the work they've done in the past few months, but I also think it's disingenuous to say that the last month didn't cause them to double down on developing new features.
I think the core of the idea could work with public money as well. In the short term, I agree it's not wise to divert public money to such an experiment. But if it worked over the long term, it would align incentives better.

Currently, a city spending more money on its homeless population creates positive feedback - more people come for the better benefits. It's in no single city's interest to spend too much, especially if they have amenities such as nice weather. What we need is negative feedback so the system balances out. Harsher policing provides this, but is rightly frowned upon and the spending ultimately ends up wasted. Funding homeless in other cities would also set up negative feedback, but with the spending actually benefiting the homeless.
I'm not to keen on "Narrative" articles like this...
It's the same strategy the Japanese tried using in WWII to turn islands into stationary aircraft carriers. So long as you can keep them resupplied, it works to a certain degree. The moment the supply line gets into trouble, the island starts losing its ability to project power. Replacement parts, supplies for the ground crews, etc. all start disappearing. As a deterrent, they make a great show piece, as a practical matter, it's possible to either exhaust their supplies and bypass or take them out via other means.

Realistically, in the event of hostilities, we wouldn't send in the air force to take the islands out. We'd launch a bunch of sea skimming cruise missiles from a submarine or a special forces raid onto the island to punch a hole in the air defense grid then let the planes through. We did something similar in Gulf War I & Gulf War II. Planes only went in after other forces ensured the air defense grid wouldn't be defending much.