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Lets not assume that Google buys storage from Seagate. Google makes its own hardware for many things (networking, TensorFlow custom ASIC). Also I don't think that have that many number of customers.
I suspect the opposite.

A few years ago I had to have a gastroscopy and the doctor was baffled that I refused GA.
I won't deny that it can be a very divisive platform, and unfortunately people are not always very good at divorcing the product from the artist for certain subjects. It can be a weird disconnect to do so, and I'm not a stranger to it as a fan of Burzum. (Great music, but Varg Vikernes definitely has some distasteful and wrong positions imho). Not everyone is comfortable with that, and I understand that aspect; sometimes our conscious doesn't allow us to cross wires like that and it doesn't sit well to have this sort of inconsistency between "I like the product, but I don't want to support the creator because of X".

Quite frankly, I'm not sure I see the problem with people adhering to their beliefs and standards, and a call for boycott is one of the methods for expressing distaste. It's one tool of many. I may not agree with what people decide to boycott or for the reason they do, but it's their choice to do so. Being on Twitter puts you in a public forum and as such, you are vulnerable and accessible by such protests, and this is how it should be. Counter groups are perfectly allowed to form, and the artist is not stopped from being an arist. (Varg may be an exception here, but I do not doubt that quite a few people really disagreed with his political and social viewpoints, and yet he kept doing what he did regardless, and they kept listening. Those that were too put off just stopped)

Twitter allows for the sort of witch-hunts for any such thing a group desires to be done instantly, with very little cost to the person posting, and with very few reprecussions. We see it from the mass boycotts to unmitigated and open racism on the platform. It's part of the rush and the good feeling of social media, the feel of being part of a crowd or a part of something bigger. I get that it's intimidating, but that's part of being connected to an entire world and audience - sometimes the audience disapproves, and they disapprove harshly.
When they picked the "Windows" product name, they could have picked a name that didn't conflict with the use of windows. Picking on an obscure file system doesn't even register in comparison.

X Windows

NeWS - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS

Remember the mess on usenet?

comp.windows.x.motif

comp.windows.new - not news about Microsoft Windows
I... like the iOS Facebook app.

Especially as a fellow iOS dev, there's a few UI things I'd like to reverse engineer. Seems like every year they introduce something useful or cool-looking and I think, "Wait, how did they pull that off?"
This does not belong on Hackernews tbh
Is that localisation EN-US or EN-GB?
Yes, I wonder if they're over-engineering things. I've seen MongoDB, Cassandra, and MySQL, all 3 used simultaneously, for example (until a more sensible CTO came along and consolidated everything into one database).
It's because the 'problem' it solves is a corner case that's rarely encountered. I love their absurd examples of repos that take 12 hours to download. How many people have that problem, really?

All they did is create a caching layer.
I've been brewing for roughly 15 years, and let me tell you, there are more yeasts than you'll suspect in your batch if you're going with the natural yeast present directly on the grape and nothing else. Plenty of them have zero issues making lots of methanol and if they manage to become the dominant culture, well...

BTW - prison hooch methanol poisonings would like to have a word with you. Even regular bread yeasts will make enough methanol.
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I purposely do not watch "shows" anymore. I feel like it is a major waste of time. Bingewatching? Really? Only shows like Mr. Robot are worth my time. There is just too much out there.

During downtime, I watch reruns of The Office (US) and Parks and Rec. Both of those shows have no music throughout the show, just dialog. I use that time to mentally relax, but I am not "into" the show, it is more in the background.
I’m not an expert here, but in the article it says he had a diplomatic passport. If that was so, and he’s an accredited diplomat, then the Vienna Convention (ratified in the USA and Norway both) applies here. It says that diplomats are not to be arrested or detained.

http://www.corpsdiplomatique.cd/VIENNA_CONVENTION_1961_ON_DI...

Article 29

The person of a diplomatic agent shall be inviolable. He
shall not be liable to any form of arrest or detention. The
receiving State shall treat him with due respect and shall
take all appropriate steps to prevent any attack on his
person, freedom or dignity.

You can disagree with our participation in the treaty, but it’s what we’ve got!
What law is he being above? The article says he checked with the US embassy in Oslo before travelling, and they said it was all good. He isn't trying to be above the law, he double checked with the law first.
Yes, it has it's own discussion/community separate from Reddit. It mainly serves as a source/aggregate for Reddit image content.
Yes they did. They choose to scale out Mecurial to solve their problem. Wonder if they still use Mercurial?

https://code.facebook.com/posts/218678814984400/scaling-merc...
> It's distinct from docker in this way, it tries to define a line between core and app dependencies, to get the best of both worlds. I.E. critical components are updated ASAP by the disro security team, but apps are free to use a specific version of a library (e.g gnome, qt) that they want to use, rather than being stuck on the distro maintained version.

And then as soon as an app decides to not use the base version of a library, it will still be vulnerable when you update the base snap, so you still need to check every app for updates. That's not an improvement at all.
> You can install another compiler on Unix, or compile it, and ignore C if you have time and talent.

True nowadays, back when UNIX was being adopted no department would pay for that foreign language compiler when they already payed quite a few bucks for the UNIX SDK.

Still that language won't keep you away from C, if you need to interact with OS APIs.
Just like any practised speaker, no?
This gave and my Buddy a great laugh! Thank you! (were doing min max problems this semester! I will link this to my professor!)
If this is effective on people getting cut open, I wonder how effective such a thing could be to cut stress even in daily life!

Anyone know of any good "calming" games on Steam that might help to de-stress after a long day? I used to play Journey to chill out, but I don't have a ps3 anymore, and even that game gets old after a while.
Apparently, there's a "weekly package" of videos, articles, and so forth that's used by 80% of Cubans. Distributed on memory sticks or external drives.

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/01/05/374986028/l...
It's a shame so many people can't function without being afraid/angry at a dehumanized "other". Sometimes it's outright malice (Syrian refugees today), sometimes it's softer but just as harmful ("the Japanese are going to take over the world!!" in the 1980s) and sometimes it's from within (Japanese and Italians in WWII, the entire history of black citizens in the USA).

And when a new "enemy" arrives that's more appealing than the old "enemy" we reclassify the old "enemy" to be on "our side" (i.e. Greeks, Italians, etc used to be considered non-white).
Powering cities and infrastructure is qualitatively the same, it just takes more. And sure, the capacity is far from being there, but it's a matter of building it out.
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Not sure why Visual Studio Team Services is in scare quotes -- that's the product's name. And it's not an open source hosting service, which handily explains why Microsoft's open source isn't hosted there.

Disclosure: I'm a PM on VSTS/TFS, and I own part of version control.
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Which features does the website have that are not in the repo?
Assuming that the repo was this big in the beginning, I wonder why the ever migrated to git (I'm assuming they did, because they can tell how long it takes to checkout). At least when somebody "tries" do the migration, wouldn't they realize that maybe git is not the right tool for them? Or did they actually migrate and then work with "git status" that take 10 minutes for some time until they realize they may need to change something?

Also, it would have been interesting if the article mentioned whether they tried other approaches taken by facebook (mercurial afaik) or google.
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While never offering a suggested improvement.
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The point was that ignoring people with visas would not be compatible with a goal of keeping terrorists out. I (and I think the other commenter) don't think it's a good idea or worthwhile, but it does fit the stated goal.
A few years ago I had to do some interfacing between python and some modelling software. I went through a COM interface, and it was a bloody nightmare to find docs.

I later found out I could have looked for "ActiveX" and found similar results.
Sometimes it's other Americans who choose other political candidates.
Probably not your intention but this comment makes me want to play ME3 (+ 1 and 2) really bad. Sounds awesome.
This is pretty big news. I know that when I was at Adobe, the only reason that Perforce was used for things like Acrobat, is because it was simply the only source control solution that could handle the size of the repo. Smaller projects were starting to use Git, but the big projects all stuck with Perforce.
I just enabled it by using CloudFlare on the domain.
Shhhhh! It's Microsoft, we're not allowed to have a negative opinion of anything they do on hacker news.
On the topic of localisation, I really love how it has the local names for places (Roma, Bruxelles, etc.)
Out of curiosity: Why is this necessary? Being not exactly a network expert I would have assumed that leakage of the MAC address terminates at the next router or switch (which eg. would be my home router, if using TOR from home). Is the MAC address part of IP packets somehow?
3131.75 bytes! Although I don't know if a fraction of a byte is valid.
I saw a handful of Twizys when I was in Rome a few years ago, still not quite sure where they charged.
You are right, in the case of ETFs. The parent is describing ETFs but my comment (the grandparent) was describing ETNs in response to the great-grandparent which is also speaking about ETNs. Phew!

OK -- to clarify my original comment -- ETNs DO NOT own the asset. The issuer of the ETN promises value equal to the asset, but that promise is worth only as much as the Issuer actually is good for. In cases like Lehman's bankruptcy, the promise would need to go through bankruptcy like any other promise. Thus, ETNs are like debt linked to an asset index rather than an interest rate/index. So not only are you exposed to the risk that underlying/linked asset loses value ("market risk"), but you are also exposed to the risk that the underlying/linked asset does fine yet the Issuer cannot make good on their promise ("counterparty risk").

With ETFs, on the other hand, the fund (and hence you) generally own the asset, but even then, some ETFs are slightly different in that they actually own derivatives on the assets such as futures. They are almost the same since futures are daily-settled. ETNs are not daily-settled thus carry longer-term counterparty risk.
Warning, this will be slightly vulgar. If you go to zoo and see primates that are mad, they sometimes throw ahem waste products at each other. We share 96% (or whatever) DNA with them. I am willing to bet $2.56 that if you did a MRI scan of a monkey in "throw mode" and a human on social media ranting, the same parts of the brain will light up.

I am so sick of politics (all sides)
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The Saudi regime is the one that encourage Wahhabism and was the primary source of funding for Al Qaeda through the 90s, and there's been nothing to show that's changed since.

As for that chart, it appears to literally have been made up by the author. Without a citation I'd call BS after the most basic of spot checks.

Perhaps stick to articles that actually cite their sources:
https://flaglerlive.com/89023/saudi-arabia-wahhabism-ps/
Using git with large repos and large (binary blob) files has been a pain point for quite a while. There have been several attempts to solve the problem, none of which have really taken off. I think all the attempts have been (too) proprietary – without wide support, it doesn’t get adopted.

I'll be watching this to see if Microsoft can break the logjam. By open sourcing the client and protocol, there is potential...

Other attempts:

* https://github.com/blog/1986-announcing-git-large-file-stora...

* https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucketserver/git-large-f...

Article on GitHub’s implementation and issues (2015):
https://medium.com/@megastep/github-s-large-file-storage-is-...
Quite nice use of C# and C++/CX for a virtual system implementation.
To clarify, we used it for our system status updates and notifications at one of my last places of employment (small university, ~3500 userbase). We didn't have a lot of official followers, but our SMS subscribers, as reported by the various departments and persons of interest across the campus, was sufficient enough to ensure we had a strong and reliable network for notifications.

During all our checks, we never had anyone complains they didn't get the notification via the normal Twitter update or SMS.

Per your link, the opening paragraph seems to summarize that it's "possible", but there really hasn't been evidence. I would frankly assume the same for all services.

In our use-case with the notification, we wanted a redundant system along side our System Status Dashboard (which supported RSS) in order to allow people to check in case the Dashboard was inaccessible. (e.g., consider a scenario where campus intranet goes down and different buildings cannot get an outgoing connection past their switch - redundant update from Twitter allows for this)

Plus, quite frankly, most of our target audience wouldn't bother with RSS :p I know and you know it's easy, but we needed to get people who had little to no technical education quickly connected. It was a lot easier to tell them "text 40404 follow [account]" than to set up the rest.
+1. HN is a sanctuary and I really hope it stays that way, despite people syaing I am 'sticking my head in the sand' by requesting politics be kept off the site.
Does it make sense to anyone that this kind of data should be layered on regular mapping applications (directions, traffic, shops)? Or is it too much?

I like the idea of visiting Google Maps, for example, and being able to toggle snippets of this kind of weather data onto the map itself. Other useful, one-click, toggles could include:

1. Real Estate Listings for a given area

2. Demographics

3. Forecasts & Historical weather info

4. Crime data

5. Local Events

6. Low-bandwidth settings

7. Access to publicly available real-time streaming cameras
just returned from the canaries where windytv proficiently helped me to pick my bikeroutes, adapted to the prevailing wind conditions.

these winds change fast and seem unpredictable and although the connection between general weather and wind is somehow limited it seems clear to me that it must be hard to make any accurate predictions.
I've built a personalized linux from the kernel up a couple times, and it never even popped into my head. Lets be fair to Microsoft, the nix world is vast, and not exactly easy to navigate if you don't live there. I live in all three worlds, and there are only so many letters. It drives me nuts when I just want a code name for a project, because I can no longer find unique words that aren't used by some project somewhere.

I mean, git itself did this in the beginning.

Microsoft, under Nadella has made me not hate Microsoft again, and that's a tall order because I'm over 40. This is an impressive move, and if they effectively execute all the bits that are possible here, this is just some great work.

(Oh, and I can't even use the word nix now as a catch all for all the POSIX/ POSIX(like) OSs because of nixOS.)

I think going forward, we just have to accept name collision.
Virtually all software that runs on Windows can be run on Linux via WINE. Often better.
.NET is still rough naming-wise. We're porting a project to .NET Core Runtime which requires porting over to EF Core and ASP.NET Core (neither of which require being on Core Runtime).

Our internal libraries need to be compatible with the Core Runtime, so we have to have them target .NET Standard, which is compatible w/ the full .NET Framework or .NET Core. To target .NET Standard, you need the .NET Core SDK/CLI which includes the `dotnet` tool, which is almost never clarified as "the SDK/CLI" in documentation or in talks, but usually just ".NET Core".

Another minor annoyance: to build a .NET Standard-compatible library, you reference the "NETStandardLibrary" NuGet package. Makes a fair amount of sense, but is hard to talk about.

If you're running on Windows and want a smaller server footprint, you can use Windows Server Nano, which requires your apps to target .NET Core Runtime (not .NET Full Framework). Note that this requirement is not true for Windows Server Core. -_-
OMG this is so much better. I don't get why they would make "custom" the default setting. Thank you.
This reminds me, (very unrelated) a few years ago (almost 10), when I dragged and dropped an image from Wikipedia with Google Chrome to my Windows XP desktop, and to my surprise it actually saved it with a file name that is the description of the picture, not some arbitrarily chosen name or the Wikipedia file name. Sometimes it was really long and descriptive, like "A man wearing red and a woman wearing blue are playing soccer on a field blah blah blah".

I wondered where that came from, and I looked for that description on that image's page on Wikipedia and couldn't find the same description anywhere (keep in mind, I was a middle schooler or something and it could very well be the case that I overlooked something) I was a little spooked, and I thought it was some sort of hidden feature in Chrome that labeled images like that.

Does anyone know what was happening? It still bugs me to this day :P
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Add to that - do not use full web-browsers, but curl/wget/links instead.
Hmm, might have been looking at q4 2015 which looked like 800 million a quarter. Still, a significant share either way yeah?
What is the difference between "can" and "should"?
I was joking. But honestly, if you don't your secrets to be found, you do have to go for extreme measures.
I appreciated the Princess Bride reference with "repos of unusual size"
I keep a lot of different overlapping windows open, and I sometimes minimize apps to find other stuff, not the desktop. For instance, I might be minimizing my text editor so that I can push a bunch of Git changes in Tower.
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I live in Europe so I unfortunately cannot recommend ways to find the best dentist in the states. Dentists here choose depending on need first because a lot is covered by insurance anyway. However you should definitely see more than one dentist and ask all of them for a care plan. It's called therapy and cost plan here, there surely is something similar everywhere.

By the way, don't be scared. I have no excuse also, and thats very liberating. Distance yourself from the story in the head - for it is root of all suffering in this world. Underneath, everything is and is okay like that.
Confusing how the wind is animated, nothing else is; for example, the temp, precipitation, etc.
There's places outside of the Bay Area? Blasphemy!
The Tramiels were notorious for not caring about software infrastructure, compatibility, and maintenance, to their customer's detriment.

I'm not sure of the details of the deal that Tramiel's Atari Corp signed with Digital Research when they licensed and ported GEM (a Mac/Lisa-like GUI framework) and GEMDOS (a spawn of CP/M 68k) for the Atari ST -- but after the initial port it never received any improvements from DR, though Atari themselves made some relatively minor changes and bug fixes later. But it was a potentially very good operating system that failed to improve significantly until it was too late (Atari hired the author of and acquired a set of open source Unix-like extensions in the early 90s, but by then the writing was on the wall for the platform.)
> 1500 to 2500€/year for the "end of the year" accounting

Why does it cost so much? In Sweden it's like two entries in the book that take 5 minutes to do and generating two reports from your program.
I don't follow these things closely, but what's the reason to expect that Google will be able to generate a watt at 10% of the cost that AWS can? 10x seems like a massively impressive edge to have over another huge player in the market for a commodity good like power.
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They did a couple of months ago so I assume they still do.
The recent Windows 10 thread was full of criticism for MS
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It is important to understand the United States is leading a bombing campaign that has recently killed over 50,000 people in Syria and Iraq. Killing people on a vast scale from countries and also accepting immigrants (including military age males) from the same country at the same time is more complicated than #WereACountryOfImmigrants.
Both Facebook and Google are continuing to contribute to Mercurial, so they both have some vested interest in it. If you poke around the commits on the repo[0] you'll see commits from people with @fb.com and @google.com email addresses. The mailing lists also has activity from both companies still.

As well, the Mercurial team does quarterly sprints (I believe), and Google is hosting the next one[1].

[0] https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg

[1] https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/4.2sprint
Wasn't in Germany, but I'd be surprised if you wouldn't find similar "initiatives" over there. It's a common EU disease.
I'm immediately reminded of MVFS and clearcase. Lots of companies still use clearcase, but IMO it's not the best tool for the job. git is superior in most dimensions. From what this article says, it's not quite the same as clearcase but there's certainly some hints of similarities.

The biggest PITA with clearcase was keeping their lousy MVFS kernel module in sync with ever-advancing linux distros.

I really liked Clearcase in 1999, it was an incredible advancement over other offerings then. MVFS was like "yeah! this is how I'd design a sweet revision control system. Transparent revision access according to a ranked set of rules, read-only files until checked out." But with global collaborators, multi-site was too complex IMO. And overall, clearcase was so different from other revision control systems that training people on it was a headache. Performance for dynamic views would suffer for elements whose vtrees took a lot of branches. Derived objects no longer made sense -- just too slow. Local disk was cheap now, it got bigger much faster than object files.

> However, we also have a handful of teams with repos of unusual size! ... You can see that in action when you run “git checkout” and it takes up to 3 hours, or even a simple “git status” takes almost 10 minutes to run. That’s assuming you can get past the “git clone”, which takes 12+ hours.

This seems like a way-out-there use case, but it's good to know that there's other solutions. I'd be tempted to partition the codebase by decades or something.