skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A bit more background:

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/03/how-zfs-is-slowly-...

The company was founded by Don Brady, who worked on the Apple ZFS for OSX project until it was cancelled.

Sadly, their website includes only marketing-buzzword compliant "tech specs" and contains no benchmarks, and there's no support for booting from ZFS. Hopefully they'll either get their act together or someone will pony up the $20 and post benchmarks and details (assuming, of course, that's not against the license).
When my main language was C, I used to feel that dynamically mutating or self-modifying data structures were somewhere between black magic and heresy.

I have found that being able to place arbitrary constraints on the way my programs store things in (seemingly simple) data structures has been very, very powerful.
I checked this out in store, very cheap feeling.
The more I learn about Lua's design and implementation, the more impressed I am. It's very rare to see software that does so much with so little code. The design is extremely clean and the code is extremely fast.

The C API is easy to use and gives good performance, and yet encapsulates enough of the VM's implementation that C modules are source and binary compatible with both Lua and LuaJIT, two very different implementations of Lua. Note that the C API was designed before LuaJIT was even written, so this API was designed without the benefit of seeing how different implementations of Lua might vary.

The source is very readable for the most part; my only stumbling block is that their naming of types and variables is extremely terse at the cost of readability sometimes, and the extensive use of macros can sometimes can require a lot of jumping around. But Lua is an impressive achievement that I frequently refer to for design inspiration.
Most of the code is open source, and available on GitHub: https://github.com/alphagov
I don't want to pay for a commercial product that doesn't integrate well with the OS, and that is configured by a GUI. I want ZFS to be integrated into the OS, bootable with encryption, like we were supposed to see in Snow Leopard.
Data was across the US. I tried looking for regional trends (price variation, etc), but at least at the state/major metropolitan area level price and availability distributions were surprisingly homogeneous. I'm hoping to deep dive later in more detail, but for saving money there didn't seem to be much on the regional front worth reporting. Thanks for reading!
The Market doesn't allow gift codes, there's simply no way to do anything like the Humble Bundle on Android without sidestepping the Market. Your blame should be at Google, not the Humble Folk.

Also, if you absolutely must have centralized distribution for each and every app, there are other platforms that are more than happy to provide that.
http://www.apple.com/supplierresponsibility/

http://www.apple.com/supplierresponsibility/code-of-conduct/...

http://www.apple.com/supplierresponsibility/code-of-conduct/...

http://www.apple.com/supplierresponsibility/code-of-conduct/...

http://www.apple.com/supplierresponsibility/auditing.html
It's hard to address your points directly when they reflect a near-total ignorance of the actual situation. I'm sorry, but "idiot" is really the best that I can do.

And if you honestly think people who have spent literally decades working day-in-day-out as editors and post producers on major network and studio projects still have a debatable status as "professionals" then "idiot" is actually being kind.
> add unicode support

This won't happen soon. Lua targets ANSI C and only ANSI C.

C11 includes new character types to support unicode, but I imagine that the Lua implementers will take their time.

Plus there's implications for embedded situations.

If you need unicode (and most do), there are libraries and patches that do a reasonable job.
>"That’s what being poor means, having to work extremely hard to make very little."

"Being poor" means not having very much money.

Working extremely hard to make very little, when one does not care for the work and has little practical alternative is being exploited.

This is or is not to say that Apple or Foxconn is exploiting the workers.

The argument attributed to Krugman is essentially the same argument that was advanced in opposition to divestiture in apartheid South Africa in the 1980's - that economic exploitation is better than change.
>An "appealing design, an expedited set-up process and better customer service" are easy to replicate.

For any bigco the size of paypal to replicate it, they would first need to realise they are doing it wrong. Which requires a relatively large critical mass of people in the management chain to accept that they've been doing it wrong. That will never happen. And then there's the technical issues of going from wrong way to right way without interrupting service. That likely requires a lot of very skilled people, many of whom probably left for greener pastures when they first saw the "wrong way" sign.

Those juggernauts just cannot turn on a dime.
Yep. The way to get a programming job done well and cheaply is to learn and do the coding yourself. That will not be fast.
Aussie start-up Roboinvest makes global competition final
I had this same issue last year. I bought a replacement fan for around $200-250 online and just did the job myself. It was kind of an awkward repair since you have to squeeze into the cabin and work on your back, but I did it with a ratcheting driver, torx bit, and extension in about 2 hours.

Online Saab communities are awesome and common problems usually have step-by-step instructions from others who have done the repairs, most even have pictures.

I've had pretty good luck with my Saab. It's on '04 with 140k miles and that blower fan has been my most expensive unexpected repair.
At least on flickr there is the "take me to the kittens" facility for self-censored pictures.
Romanian hacker TinKode arrested for NASA/DoD attacks
The worst problem with Lua is that arrays start at 1. That is way too bad for me to use it. I only use it to configure Awesome WM, but it sucks for everything else IMO because of "tables" starting at 1.
Text a message to the future
The issue is not about economics, it's about morality. His economic arguments are sound, this is indeed how capitalism works. Apple (and many others) have made a decision to introduce a level of indirection - the Foxconn people are legally not Apple employees, but for all practical intents and purposes, they are.

Just like pollution, gross worker exploitation has been largely eliminated in the first world* and has just been relocated to the third world.

The question is whether Apple and the consumers who support them should morally continue on their path.

* "largely eliminated" does not mean that there is not significant abuse, just that as a percentage of the employed population, it's historically very small
The app is primarily for data collection, the next post will explain everything
"you are mentally retarded."

XML is a feature, not a creative feature. I think its hilarious that you've dedicate yourself to bashing FCP X anywhere its talked about, and you can't even respond honestly to people's points.

Not once in my life have I ever bashed an Avid product or Premiere, and I certainly don't jump into threads where they're discussed to do so, calling people "asshole", "nitwit", "moron", "dick", etc.

There exists a product called "7toX" that converts projects from FCP 7 to FCP X. It does the XML conversion. In fact, making convertibility easy is the whole purpose of using XML in the first place.

But if that doesn't work for you, then you don't have to transition to FCPX at all.

So, what are you complaining about? A product you don't use doesn't have a feature you want, and so you're going to run around calling people names for the crime of liking that product?

Really?
Again, there's nothing in there about it being illegal (and Geist would be the first to point it out if it was), just that recording a show to watch later is not a protected right. It's not illegal, but cable companies may choose to implement DRM that would make it impossible, without Canadians having the right to circumvent it. So yes, it's broken, but it's not a forbidden practice under the law.
What Nexus phone?
Salesforce Desk.com a Social and Mobile Help Desk for Every Small Business
I usually don't, only because I'm more interested in the comments than the links.
i had the same reaction.. after reading the title i was expecting some inventive tricks at automating search, or maybe even negotiation tactics..

instead i got "don't trade your car in" .. turns out the dealer is only taking my used car at a discount to turn a profit? thanks! /sarcasm
>"I wouldn't be surprised to meet a 6 year old who understands basic programming expressions."

I wouldn't be surprised either. I would be saddened [in the context of that being the realization of a parent's goals].
> When sites get larger, both in members and staff, the gap tends to grow between the people that build the site and the people that use it.

If you want to know why products slowly degrade and eventually die, that is the best answer you will ever find. Developers need to have input from real-life users in order to make the product better. Jobs was right to say that "people don't know what they want", but they surely know what bothers them about the products and services they use.
Postmark is magical. I've used them for several projects - emails just work. Really excited to try out their new in-bound features.
Ouch. Go to patio11 for counsel, collect $15k. ;-)
Last Day Of Free Software Foundation Fundraiser
Shit programmers say
Facebook to file $5 billion IPO: IFR
Or it is a cash cow and we are funding the rest of the crappy empire. Time to stop subscribing I think.
The link he claims has been flagged to death with 4 points... has not been flagged to death, and has 6 upvotes. And I see an up arrow for it.

Perhaps the reason there was no up arrow when Ron saw it is that he was one of the people who upvoted it the previous day?
I would love to stop doing work for small companies or individuals. But how do I get bigger clients? I really don't know how.
Don't know why you're being downvoted; any business <$1M annual revenue that has to send loads of e-mail shouldn't be wasting time rolling their own solutions
I'll admit: at times I go off the deep end, if only for literary flourish. But I hope those moments are at least entertaining, if not thoughtful (though my aim potentially f(l)ailed in that regard).
that's partly because in Europe your insurance is through the roof so people throw away perfectly fine cars since they don't want to pay $6K/yr for a civic
Ferster and Skinner would be proud.
$5B with a projected $50B - $75B market cap means less than 10% of FB shares will be on the open market.

Guess they want to keep demand (and the stock price) high...
Angry Birds Chrome now uses the Web Audio API
GoPollGo is now 100% MongoDB - what we learned
Nice interview, Corey.
Can't speak for anyone else, but personally I'm getting fed up of legitimate personal e-mails going missing even when sent to long-time friends I've swapped mails with on numerous occasions, only to find they're in the spam tray. These are plain text messages, all sent from the same very small pool of mail servers, with correct headers, consistent From: address that really is me at a personal domain I've held for years, etc.

I should not have to jump through non-standardised and somewhat broken hoops like SPF and DKIM just to get a goddam e-mail delivered to my friend. When you reach that point, it's not your e-mail client or domain registration that's broken, it's the receiving e-mail system that's so paranoid about spam that it's regularly diagnosing and (silently) rejecting false positives.
2/3rds as much.
Is Cyber Security a Form of Violence?
Actually it is the sellers that PayPal is turning off. Their dispute resolution policies are abstruse and keep changing in their attempt to protect buyers. They have relied too heavily in freezing, closing, and even withdrawing money from sellers’ accounts without prior notice. So many eBay sellers who have relied on PayPal had their entire businesses destroyed with one incident. A payment system that focuses on preventive security would not rely on such heavy handed tactics when resolving disputes between buyers and sellers. If all users (buyers and sellers) have an equal distribution of control during the entire transaction then incentives for committing fraud on both sides will be effectively eliminated. Right now one party gets paid then the other has to wait for his merchandise. PayGuard will solve these problems. The challenge now is to get people to start trusting new players in the market.
NASA probe discovers alien matter outside solar system
i recently finished a script that ran our 35k customer records through DNS/MX/SMTP servers and flagged all invalid addresses.

sadly any properties that use yahoo servers or sympatico.ca, bell.ca, always return "OK" and you physically need to bounce an email to verify it. many of our customers have @yahoo addresses so we still have about 25% that simply cannot be validated without a "probe" message :(
Nope. I had never seen it before I tried to submit the link and was forwarded to the original submission. Maybe HN auto-upvotes in this case?
Amazon's Profit Drops 57% as Heavy Spending Continues
As a developer who's been on all sides of this equation (developer, contractor, and someone who has outsourced dev work), I have to say I agree with the poster above who said "Most outsourcing projects don't go nearly that well."

Here's my advice to any prospective outsourcer:

-You still need to do your job as a both a product manager AND a project manager. Failure at either one of these duties on your end cannot be rescued by developer skill.

-You need to be able to identify whether or not a contractor or firm is actually capable of doing the work you're asking them to perform. Have they completed similar projects in similar time frames? Do they have repeat customers? How experienced are their developers? Do they have experience in the platform you're developing in? Are they full stack or are they just building the mobile portion?

-Always understand that contracted labor will be less opinionated, and will be far more likely to take a "Garbage in, garbage out" approach to any requirements you feed them. A salaried engineer may provide some push-back on features that will cause the project costs or timing to slip, contractors (foreign or native) have a tendency to happily plug along and let time and budget slip and then just apologize after the fact. Remember: Every mistake YOU make will likely result in more billable hours for them, so they have a financial interest in not telling you when you've stepped in it.

-Requirements should be very detailed. If you hand them a PowerPoint slide deck with some notes your project is doomed.
Agreed. Only at a huge scale is a custom made e-mail solution time or cost effective.

Obviously the blog post was only talking about how effective it is for 37signals, but I fear many young startups will misinterpret it and waste a ton of time rolling their own mass e-mail solution.
New version for Perfect keyboard
I tried to import an OPML file, and got a cloudfare error page.
TED announces global auditions What are you waiting for?
better yet, take the loan, then pay it off the next day.
FWIW, gmal.com has neither MX, nor A records so a couple of quick DNS lookups could have confirmed that the email address was incorrect.
Warner Music Group chairman loves Spotify, calls Google Music an “oxymoron”
So not to overtly threadjack, but I built https://secure.fracken.com/ as a lifeline for anyone who feels the need to jump ship from Flickr - sends everything to Dropbox, first 100 photos are free, everything else is a flat USD$1/batch.

It's an MVP, but it works. Seemed apropos.
If you buy into

A) Utilitarianism
B) The economic arguments of the article

Then the morality question is addressed by this.
New tactic in mass file-sharing lawsuit: just insult the EFF
What Assistly did wrong launching Desk.com
Same formula as ZNGA (and initially, GOOG). I think this strategy is wise, but "projected market cap" is a bullshit term at 10% openly traded.

My pessimistic take is that, like ZNGA, the wind is no longer at Facebook's back but they have no choice but to go IPO before it gets worse.
>"...look into 'old people's' cars. Things like the Cadillac DTS, Lincoln, Mercury Grand Marquis, etc... Because they are so unfashionable, the depreciation hit on them is HUGE, and you can really get decent, comfortable transportation for cheap"

THIS is important.

After having a beautiful Audi A3 which I totaled, a Volvo XC90 which I put a lot into which went to my ex and a Mini that was stolen, I no longer care about what car I drive.

Recently, my in-laws gave us a Buick Regal - ugly as sin - but it drives great, is super comfortable and has heated seats etc...

In the 90's my grandmother had given my an Infinity J30 which everyone thought of as "an olds person's car" until they rode in it.

It had 20K miles when I got it - and was in pristine condition and was one of the most comfortable cars I have ever had.
Facebook to File for $5 Billion IPO Tomorrow Morning
Pretty much everything in Europe is more expensive when it comes to driving. Tax, fuel, insurance are all higher than the American equivalent. In Ireland insurance for young males is ludicrously expensive due to the heightened probability of a crash.
Timeshifting isn't forbidden, but recording TV programs is.

To quote from that article, "[...] address this issue as well, either by expanding the fair dealing user right such that home television taping would be permitted ...". It wouldn't be necessary to "address this issue" if it were already permitted.
I do concur with this article, during the .com boom, there was a lot of things that just did not feel right, the infrastructure was not there, UPS and Fedx where not what they are now, there growth happened slower than it could provide capacity for the net. As such stuff like delivering a bag of dog food just did not have the economic argument. It still may not be there but it is much closer. Further organization like Amazon streamlined warehousing which took time. Bandwidth was also another issue, people where innovating but they where on pipes far bigger than was available to the consumer. This all lead to a premature start to what people saw coming as such it inflated far faster than the infrastructure at the time could compensate for.

Fast-forward to today, and much of those concerns have been addressed and mobile sparked a new wave of innovation. I believe that today looks much more like the industrial revolution (multi-sector advancements and convergence among them) than the .com era did as such I do believe that we are riding a bubble, just as the industrial revolution was, but it is a slower playing bubble than most people think it is. A lot of people see shades of .com era in the current atmosphere, but I shades of Marconi, Edison, Tesla and Ford. I don't think, this time it is different I just think we are comparing the this time to the wrong last time.

The parallels are very similar, a lot of disruptive technologies (lord forgive me for using that term) invented at the end of a gilded age, an economic collapse brought on by a society and economy in flux due in part by that disruption, all the while refinement, commercialization and consummation of that technology taking place followed by capital exploitation of the efficiencies gained in commercializing the technology. There is a lot different too, consumer debt was no where where it is now and we (at least America) was not involved in major warfare in the lead up to the crash. That being said, I think there is enough to be optimistic over. The convergence of technology being the one that makes me most optimistic.
I ended up modifying the script where it saves the image, added an issue to the git hub page.
Where do you pay that much? I have lived in Germany and Switzerland and had various cars. Liability insurance never was more than 700 dollars per year.
First, Understand Your Screen
I actually had trouble watching the terminal velocity video on the front page. On an OSX 10.7.2. The video won't start. Could be something on the video though.
Mechanisms & automata
"The real problems are the charming, smooth talking, dream clients offering cool projects, top dollar, and paying on time...until they don't and decide to start making your life hell because you're in so deep already. They're no dummies."

I can completely relate. If only there were a place to keep track of clients and their payment history. Glassdoor meets credit reporting. Clients with no history get charged more and require a higher deposit.
Apple hires Dixons CEO as chief of retail
It is a minor mind shift. The kind I find alternately annoying, or a fun challenge, unpredicatbly.

When I was doing Lua stuff I ended up writing some FP-style helpers and other functions for iteration. This cut down on the number of times I had to think about the table indexes (and was helpful in general).
I refer to this as a "cash leash", and it's a very good idea, particularly in the early days before you can hire lawyers to create contracts and write letters to non-payers.
I don't get it. How is it NOT a valid point of concern that Apple has 70% margins on some products that are produced by extreme low income workers under bad conditions?
There are prestigious open access journals in several fields, Machine Learning and Biology come to mind, that have solved this problem. There is no excuse to restrict access in a world with PLoS and the Journal of Machine Learning.
Angry Birds for Chrome has been updated to use the Web Audio API
nice work with the thinking cap - are you still using it? can you comment anecdotally on effects? i'm hacking one together after seeing this post :)
This lacks details.

The wikipedia page for ZFS claims that they implement ZFSv28 (same as FreeBSD), but I'm skeptical.

While I understand the lack of encryption (it's one of the very latest additions to ZFS anyway), I see no mention of compression, snapshots, dedup, easy raid, everything that makes ZFS so cool.

Instead, they market.. sharing ? It's a local filesystem, it should be shareable through classical means anyway...

PS: ok. On-disk format is v28, but they just didn't implemented the associated features ? That's plain weird.

PPS: Disregard what I said. Should have delved more into the website..
How about the fact that zsh enforces that you spend a certain amount of time per day just contemplating your existence:

% time zsh -c exit
zsh -c exit 0.22s user 0.21s system 97% cpu 0.436 total
$ time bash -c exit
bash -c exit 0.00s user 0.00s system 83% cpu 0.004 total

Typing too early will just blackhole your keystrokes, of course, so no cheating!

Or how about how when using an RPROMPT it makes copy/pasting stuff out of the terminal infuriate your IM buddies?

:)

Actually these are downsides, let's try fish instead, maybe?

% brew install fish
% fish
zsh: correct 'fish' to 'vis' [nyae]? GRRR
Even on non-boot drives, ZFS can be a real boon. I used it for a 1U appliance on a solaris machine on two disks, and it saved me the cost of a RAID card.
I think it's pretty much proven without a doubt that public opinion can sway corporations and politics. I really don't understand this form of 'Corporate protectionism'.
Don't know why you're getting down-voted. This is absolutely true.

And the reason that it's true is because post houses can't integrate FCP X with the rest of their workflows even if they want to. Apple inexplicably stopped supporting the exchange format that allows this to happen.