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I am interested to find out what volumes of data each of these solutions, Cubes and Bubbles, have been tested against?

I work with enterprise tools to create ETL and OLAP solutions daily and really like what I see here but I am concerned with the performance since it is all done using Python and performance is not Python's strength.

Do you have any more information regarding this?
Try meditation, it gave me better ability to focus than ever before.
Of course that ZFS supports any sized drives in a pool. ZFS expands very easily, in fact, the user doesn't have to do anything, it automatically expands.

Of course you can remove drives in ZFS. How else could you replace disks?

I downvoted your post because every statement you made about ZFS is wrong.
Outlets like The Information [1] are more like TechCrunch of 2006 with thoughtful analysis and researched facts, not just latest app hype. It's $$ paywalled, but maybe that's what it takes to produce non-clickbait stuff today.

[1] https://www.theinformation.com/
I still use my Treo 650. I have a stack of them waiting in the wings. Best phone ever.
Even the rare few who may give a shit due to stronger empathy or morality will usually justify it away in their heads "Oh, I'm afraid of malware" or some other BS excuse which works to trick themselves into feeling better about blocking every ad.

Blocking ad networks because of malware is not a BS excuse. The only 0-day I ever got hit by, to my knowledge, was straight off a major ad network on a well-known and generally reputable site linked from a popular news/discussion site for geeks you may have heard of. If you've followed any links from HN today, it could have been you.

If someone is then unwilling to share their content with me because I block their ads, I understand and don't pretend they owe me anything. But I don't turn off my security tools, for anyone, ever, and I consider content blockers to be security tools.
Of course, everyone wants the best of everything.

When someone says they prefer "reliable over smart," I assume that they mean they want as smart a compiler as possible under the constraint that it has to be reliable first.

And that's reasonable. Small (semantic) changes to code should result in small changes to performance.
> Aren't their lawyers busy with Google?

They would only bite a golden hand anyway.

> We are also concerned that it may infringe Oracle's copyrights in ZFS.

The Software Freedom Conservancy saying that is a bit scary. I am somewhat less afraid of Linux copyright holders suing.
Ah, not the Winamp that AOL released after they bought Nullsoft. AOL killed it, around the same time as they killed Netscape Navigator.
Maybe not the most elegant solution, but it could be worse: I wrote all the data to a csv file and then imported into Excel for analysis.
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Unfortunately, it's a dkms, which means it gets compiled on the user machine on update.

From an operational perspective, this is insane, I need reliability. Of course in my organisation I could create a binary package and use that, but that's more work and then the new Debian package doesn't help me anyway.

When I need linux I just run ZFS on a better supported system and either virtualise Linux or expose an iSCSI target from ZFS for Linux.
Shame. Maybe they will open source it so it can be ported to a less obscure platform.
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What about Kafka's at-least-once semantics ?
Is that being dealt with ?
Not sure how this article bubbled up to #2 spot. I don't find the argument credible and/or get it.
Why do you think being afraid of malware is BS? Why should I need to justify I like a cleaner browsing experience? Why should I feel bad about content blocking? Imho spreading the content blocking is stealing fallacy did more harm than good for anyone interested in ads. I see opting in as the way the market values content. People realized they can do without what they are fed and have the upper hand and somehow they are at fault?
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> We noticed you still have your ad blocker on, please log in to continue to the site.

> Login with Forbes

But they don't actually say how to signup. For that, you need to hit the "Terms of Service" link. So I created a blog account, but I still can't login to the front page.

They're wedged.

And then there's this gem:

> We will never post on your behalf without first obtaining your explicit permission.

Just exactly WTF does that mean? How would any sane person want a site to post on their behalf?
But in theory this allows publishers to offer content that is "ad free" because the user is paying for it in the form of data.

I agree this is an interesting idea, though not necessarily one I would personally choose to use. It might be a short-lived one, though, if the tracking shows that someone who isn't willing to view ads immediately also has a low chance of conversion for any later ads targeted based on the data given initially.
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massive opportunity now for Oracle to generate some goodwill
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That's a fantastic idea!
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Is it just me or is this website really buggy/confusing. Some of the menus blog/projects open to a blank page (with a cursor that does nothing?) and the other ones are just way to slow at producing the content... The time it takes for some page to artistically produce the readable content I've already clicked back button about 24 times.

I fail to see why this is on hacker news in the first place? Is this a demonstration of some web developers failing in new creative ways? (I saw some other interactive CV stuff that was also not only buggy but also just creative in a _bad_ way few days before...)

And oh yeah, if this is supposed to be some kind of "recruiting" tool to advocate the creator of the website in question.. If I was the recruiter, I would consider this website against him. Just my 2 € cents.
Sensors are just part of the information age that's impacting people's life more and more. Also status updates are done on instagram, fit bit, GPS and other sensors, though I don't see enough reason to do these for myself.
I don't think it would. I have had people offer to pay for features etc. They always offer tiny amounts as if I'm going to jump up in gratitude and get to work in it straight away. TBH I see it as an insult.
Using a binary library is always a nightmare. That aspect in Cocoa is terrifying after Java. With all that openness I really don't understand why Cocoa is closed-source. They could open it with "read only" license, it's not like someone could get any benefit from it.
Ubiquity was amazing.

It was sort of like a launcher in a browser combined with IFTTT. You could use it to chain together APIs and reduce them to natural language commands.

You could highlight "abogado," translate it, get a map to the nearest one, shorten the url to that map, and email that shortened url to a friend all with one nearly natural language command.

I'm not that great at coding, but even I was able to write a few scripts (verbs?) for it. The simple scripting language for interacting with APIs was one of the most well crafted things about that project.
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Oh my god, yes. It was a fantastic, snappy tool for sound editing. Then Adobe acquired it, rebranded to "Audition", changed all hot keys and UI, killed lots of features, and finally added so much bloat (including a slow-as-hell UI bitmap theme) that it wasn't usable anymore.

What does everyone use for sound editing these days?
This pile of horseshit is too bad even by techcrunch standards.
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There's plenty of exchanges outside USA. Safello is currently the big local one here in Sweden, and there's plenty of bigger ones in other European and Asian countries.
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I remember when the office "upgraded" our workstations with shiny new Dells (KB, mouse, monitor included). So there I was down at the street rummaging through the bin trying to get my favourite, well worn keyboard and mouse back. It was that serious.

I've had good luck finding old hardware in second stores in small towns. Like an entire Apple II (with drive, floppies, monitor) in Puerto Rico. I wished I had the space in my luggage. I have some programs on old floppies I wrote at my sons age that if live to show him.
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All very good considerations. The "live" VR 360 capture market is really just getting started. I like the idea of "post-processing" as a service, especially. It might be down the road a few months though as the market for it develops.
1. Metrowerks.

2. Turbo Pascal for Windows (which I guess became Delphi)

3. C-Terp
A good skill to have come whiteboard interview time.
None these media companies will innovate on micro payments but instead try fancy/annoying tactics.

It seems the big problem with micropayments is that it looks like a single content provider can't do much in the area on their own. I suspect that to become an established and useful payment method, micropayments will need a safe, reliable, standardised, and trivially easy to use mechanism, something that several big players can get behind and create some momentum.
Shamir's Secret Sharing[1] seems like it would be a good mechanism to encrypt decryption keys with - you can give a part of the key to several people, and require that a certain number of them put their keys together to decrypt the information.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_Secret_Sharing
There is already something similar, although a 3rd party service https://www.bountysource.com/
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I have many of those here boxed; I was glued to them for everything I did when they came out. Very handy and long battery life. If we could put a Pyra mobile[0] spec into that, the perfect handheld would be born. Although; I like the design of the Zaurus[1] and particularly the SL-C860 even more but the keyboard of the Psion is far superior... Shame big companies do not find it worthwhile anymore to pursue it anymore, then again, it makes room for the Pandora & Pyra which give more freedom (in a clunky but quite usable package).

[0] https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/pages/pyra/
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_Zaurus
[2] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Za...
Worth noting that Erlang also has a new gen_statem in R19 coming in June. It looks like a big upgrade to gen_fsm!
8 points within 30 minutes = second place on the front page, an article of questionable quality and substance from TC, I agree that HN's ranking algorithm could use some serious tweaking.

It's also interesting to see how younger articles with more upvotes are placed lower than this one (for example, the FSM Akka article at the time of this comment).

Edit: they seem to have fixed it.
"> A more silent neighborhood..."

I haven't figured out if I changed or my neighbor's for loudness?

In my neighborhood, it seems like when ever the economy heats up, like in the Bay Area; residents order more junk from Amazon, trim everything, use blowers for just the sake of irritation, hire handymen who take a whole summer to put in a 10 X 20 deck, and are just irritating loud?

I'd rather have Metal Heads playing at level 11 than these hypocritical earthy home owners. I'm actually looking forward to a slight drop in the local economy. It's almost like they need a project, a package to be delivered daily--after all they would have to talk to each other without that daily distraction?

(I miss the Internet of pre 2008. Why? You could find more information for free.)
My biggest problem with inoreader is there are feeds I subscribe to that it either doesn't recognize as feeds or won't update them for some reason. That makes it an instant fail for me. Which is a shame; I love the interface.
Autodesk Animator. That program was the tits back in the day; and I used it to re-create scenes from Ren & Stimpy as well as make my own animations.

Yes, I know there was an open-source release. I couldn't get it to work.
Numerous articles in search results for "age of experience" suggests this as well.
HP48GX on eBay : 365$.

Now you may weep...
Maybe...just maybe...ads aren't a good business model for journalism any more.
I see no WTF here. Concurrent reads from * p have to be allowed to produce any possible value whatsoever, since if the variable is larger than a system word, the compiler may have to break up the write into multiple instructions (and some architectures don't even have instruction-level isolation).

The language doesn't give you any stricter concurrency guarantees just because a variable is sizeof(void* ). And that's good. It makes the language cleaner. No bullshit special cases that require you to know implementation details. You want atomic behavior, use std::atomic (or a lock), period.
That description doesn't do it justice. You didn't have to open an executable from the Finder; you could call it from the command line, as in

>commando ls

That popped up a dialog box with checkboxes for -l, -R, etc., with a text field for file names, a button that allowed you to pick files, etc.

There were two ways to exit the dialog. One executed the command, the other entered it in your shell for further editing, copy-pasting in a script (in MPW shell, that copy-pasting wasn't even needed, as every shell window was a file), etc.

And even better: the shell (at least in MPW) knew about commando, so typing

>ls…

or just typing ls and hitting command-option-return (or some other magic incantation) opened the dialog, too.

I may misremembered it, but IIRC, commando even parsed partial inputs to populate the dialog box when you opened it.

Thinking of MPW and the early Mac, I also miss the consistent distinction between return (the key to the right of the letter 'l' that starts a new line) and command-return or enter (on the numeric keypad, starts a command) that made it possible to enter multi-line text in input dialogs without living in the constant fear of dismissing the dialog early.
Choosing your emotion from a list of emotions rings a very dystopian bell for me.
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I have similarly been looking for a modern Sharp Zaurus replacement. But the Pyra (and the Pandora before it) does not make a good PDA.

For one thing the dimensions: it is a real brick and I don't understand why that is in 2016. All the flip-top Sharp Zaurii SL-Cxxxx were at least 5mm slimmer, and they were made a good ten years ago.

Then there is the keyboard, which is pushed all the way to the bottom edge, which makes it difficult type when handheld. It is clearly optimized for gaming, with prominent space given over to joystick controls. It lacks a bottom row containing a spacebar, which makes for awkward typing.
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I spent countless hours on this PDA with tethering over my mobile phone :) Form factor and keyboard was really amazing.
Instead of discrete concepts of "Information Age" --> "Experience Age", I think it makes more sense to reframe it as a continuum from asynchronous&text --> realtime&media. What's happening now with network higher bandwidth virtual reality is a continuation of "social networking" that's been happening since people exchanged letters via horses and ships.

Yesterday's communication was more symbols (text, emoticons, status) and more asynchronous (mailing letters, email, Usenet, BBS systems, etc).

Today's sharing is richer media... someone wears a GoPro while surfing, hiking, etc to record 4k hidef video... and less asynchronous, the hiker uploads it to YouTube within the hour.

Tomorrow, it would be 4k/8k 360 3D VR video streamed in realtime.

Both dimensions of text-vs--media and asycnhronous-vs-realtime can evolve independently.... AOL AIM chat is realtime but it's low fidelity text. IMAX 4k 3D video is hi fidelity, but sharing it is asynchronous (via movie theaters, BluRay, or NetFlix)

What the author calls "experience age" is those dimensions converging towards both richer media + realtime sharing.
I have NEVER seen at attributed article in 30 years of reading such things. Typically you are not paid to write an article, you are encouraged to write an article featuring that company, and they agreed to do advertising in your magazine or on your site.
I am absolutely serious and entertained by the fact my comment was down voted.

Spend any time around agriculture and you will realize that the cheapest super market meat is raised completely unethically.

To have a clear conscious 90% of my protein comes from farms and hunters I know directly. Dairy is still the tricky one I'm trying to figure out.
>People usually do have a specific objection when they're turning down a request, but they just know that it doesn't help them to tell it to you, which is why it's always wise to cherish those who care enough about you to be honest.

This, exactly this.

The next time I hear non-committal platitudes from a potential business partner, I'll understand better what is really going on.

Thank you for pointing that out so clearly
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But that visitor could share the content with other people who share it on further..... To people who don't have ad blockers.
I miss my 19" 4:3 CRT monitor that did 1600x1200 @ 85Hz.

I want to play doom with it again. No matter what you do, upscaling a low resolution game to high resolution flat display just doesn't look good. Whereas a CRT, even a high end one, could switch to a low resolution mode and look crisp without turning the pixels into huge squares.

I see that "crt shaders" are popular today, but to me they all look like they're trying to replicate the look of a NES hooked up to a shitty old television. It's completely different from a high resolution computer display.
> “We’ve had a lot of people converting. Around 40% of users were turning off their ad-blockers,” said Lewis DVorkin, Forbes Media chief product officer.

Those numbers are bogus. There's no way 40% of people will disable ad blocking just to read Forbes.
But likewise, if I were a TA for that course I'd probably try to act like a bot just to confuse the students.
You're describing operations that can be done on a pool, while conveniently ignoring that they can not be done to a single RAID array (vdev), which is the more useful comparison against btrfs.

Yes, you can add drives of arbitrary size to a ZFS pool, but when put into the same array, they all get treated as the size of the smallest one. Yes, you can expand a ZFS pool but only by adding a new array or by incrementally upgrading all the drives in the new array. Yes, you can remove drives, but only for replacement purposes; you can't do an in-place rebuild to make the reduced number of drives the new normal instead of degraded mode.
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To make working with the assembly code easier, I've found Facebook's Chisel (specifically the "pinvocation" command) to be really useful: https://github.com/facebook/chisel
OK, we need to qualify what is meant by 'product'. I'm not talking about a palette swapped iteration on an existing product. I'm talking about something new that the market hasn't yet quite seen before. The sort of product Silicon Valley funds.

Even the palette-swaps generally cost anywhere from a quarter to half a million dollars to do properly, unless it really is cookie-cutter. I don't know the exact figures, but the company I worked for spent a sum in that neighborhood on an e-commerce site, and laughed at me when I told them I'd build them a new site in house for a modest pay raise. Software is really expensive, programmers have this blind spot around it I think because it's psychologically easier to undervalue software than it is to face the reality of economic exploitation.

It seems you have experience in this area and I don't want to belittle it, I won't contest your claim that you've done it for less, but I want to be clear that the expertise that allows you to do that is worth a lot of money, even if you didn't get paid for it. How much? Take $1 million and subtract what the firm actually paid to bring the new product to market, and there you go.

If it's your company, then you get to enjoy the competitive advantage that the cost savings affords you. If not, the people owning the company are arbitraging your expertise and they're getting the competitive advantage.

But it's not just your expertise. Your team has to be a cut above in order to build software products for less than the general market rate. Again, they are either getting compensated for it or they're not, in which case they form part of the competitive advantage of the firm. The entire Silicon Valley startup industry is organized around creating and exploiting this advantage, which is really why it seems to you that a million bucks is an outlandishly huge number.
It's too bad Lenovo ripped before I ever bought one, I often see nostalgious people.
Have you tried system76 laptops? A bit expensive but no real flaw so far for me.
> Console gaming when it Just Worked. Nowadays when I pop in a game it's update this and update that, long loading times etc.

This might be about to change with Nintendo's upcoming NX system rumoured to use ROM cartridges rather than optical media. The cart-based 3DS has loading times comparable to the Mega Drive or SNES (negligible). And the cartridge distribution model is great for this with sub-par internet connections.
Lopster, a GTK+ file sharing client using the OpenNap protocol (which was built after the original Napster (which has nothing to do with today's Napster) protocol)

You could download songs in 320kbps mp3 quality, you actually owned the tracks.

You could discover home-made remixes of completely unknown artists, which could happen to be truly amazing, and which then got lost forever after the downfall of the OpenNap servers.

You had an insta-search feature where you typed something in a search box, and the track list actually filtered immediately.

I miss all of this and I would pay so much money (even monthly) if something like that came up again.

Yes, it was illegal, and you have streaming services like Deezer and Spotify today, but try searching for Adele. There's no point if you have to have 2-3 sources to listen to your favourite music. The movie industry is repeating the same fragmentation faults of the music industry. There's still no legal way to stream or download your favourite music and movies.

You have music communities like Soundcloud, but artists need to pay money to make their work public (laughably unaffordable if you're, say, in Romania) and the sheer amount of work went forever extinct, just like what happened to Grooveshark.

You could search your library, and the library would filter your results instantly by the letter you've just typed. This is impossible with today's SPA platforms. Not a single competitor does sub strig filtering, and by the time your AJAX request hits the server, you're already 20ms over the time the results would have been shown in Lopster.

There was a golden time when those Napszter clones were alive, anyone remembering WinMX? I'm delighted Soulseek survived until today, i'll see what's left from the legacy.