skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ZFS scrubs can detect silent bit rot and recover any data affected. ZFS also has very easy, filesystem-level snapshots. Filesystem-level deduplication might also be a benefit in the future, though is likely too memory intensive currently for a consumer device.

Basically, on OS X, it would allow Time Machine (including Time Machine local backups) to be implemented in a much more elegant way, though I think it's fair to say Apple's actually done a pretty good job of it with their current implementation.
this is a great post by Mark, I think everyone who knows Jody will be vigorously nodding their head throughout. way too early to go, man.. the only consolation is it makes me happy to see the tremendous impression you've left on so many others. rest in peace.
Yes, I can finally view my groups from my phone! Big fan of Flickr here, I've had a pro account since 2009. Spent the last couple of years watching Yahoo ignore it, torn between "well at least they aren't changing it in ways that ruin it" and waiting for the other shoe to drop and them run it into the ground like they did with Delicious. There's been some minor front page tweaks happening lately too. It's nice to see Flickr in active development again.
It's a nice idea, but it broke both sites I tried it on. I'm happy to supply bug reports if that'll help.
http://partybeamer.com
PartyBeamer turns any screen or projector into an interactive photo wall. During a party everybody can login with their own mobile and send pictures to the central screen.
It's working great, but I'm having trouble getting new users.
Here's a cool T3D physics demo released yesterday. http://www.beamng.com/entries/25-BeamNG-and-Torque3D
[ANN] Quepy hangout tomorrow (DB queries in natural language)
The people of the Quepy project will offer an open hangout tomorrow to talk about it, answer questions, and help people who want to start using quepy.
Quepy is a python framework for database queries in natural language.

Quepy project: http://quepy.machinalis.com/
Hangout link: https://plus.google.com/u/1/events/cvtrlucmf9jkm78nk3sg2qpgc1k
I work in education as well, FE. Yes, the stock will need to be managed and support given to get them actually used.

(I also have fond memories of Acorn Archimedes A310s which were also pretty solid.)

Having said that, we had a couple of class sets of netbooks (Asus 7 inch ones) that lasted well and were really used for independent study/class work using wifi. And they all came back each day.
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That chart isn't really that insane. There are many ways to legally immigrate, and it just lumped most of them all together. Refugee status is missing. This is just a Top Level Design Doc. Most people are gonna answer the first question or two and then zoom in.

The process itself is tedious and can cost, but I think it is worth it. I went through it helping my wife get her green card a few years ago.

I know many people who just didn't want to deal with the process and hired a lawyer to do it for them.
> Drug and Terrorist Financing issues are more prevalent in the West than in Pakistan (I can provide you various reports and references as published by the Senate Committees in the US and other US based institutions).

It'd be interesting to hear more on this point. This might be the first open letter I've read that goes beyond simple publicity stunt and just asks interesting questions I'd be curious to hear a response to (even if there is some cogent explanation, which there may be, no idea).

I'm especially curious now, is PayPal primarily concerned with terror financing? It's at least plausible.

But Western Union can send money to Pakistan, do they simply not care?

What are the mechanics of terrorist financing that PayPal is trying to stop here?

OP makes a case that allowing PayPal would actually improve efforts to monitor/control terrorist financing... is there anything on the other side of the ledger? Is PayPal trying to avoid having to develop sophisticated analytics to guard against terror financing, to avoid falling foul of 18 USC 2339A, "Providing Material Support to Terrorists?"

Again, why has WU made a different legal calculation here?
Some would view that as the reason that Windows is hard to maintain. You say po-tay-to...
Another technologically progressive entity I think is Al Jazeera English, especially their mobile app where you can watch the channel live and their nice integration with Youtube.
Sorry, I am speaking specifically of the AWS business.

I think most people making platform selections are mainly focused on AWS. I'm sure they pay some attention now to Amazon proper, but their affiliate programs were a peripheral thing, and
> While I will agree that you can't prove a negative, you can prove that he is not a muslim

That is contradictory? How do you, in fact, prove that? It is not indisputably the case that Obama is a christian, because people are actively disputing it.

> The second point is from factcheck.org, not from truth teller. It actually is a counter argument.

I made a general reference to the fact-checking trend which factcheck.org is very much a part of.
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I welcome comments here or on twitter (@pjrvs), since I don't use comments on my own site.
Not really. I remember the story was a sensation when it was first covered by Peskov. Not so much these days, in Russia anyway.
The key sizes on the Air are identical to the Thinkpad, so I don't see how the ergonomics would be different. Your hand position on the Air would be identical to the Thinkpad. I don't think there are any laptops out there that would have an improved keyboard for the purposes of ergonomics.
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It's still like that. Everything is locked down, locked up and entirely filtered. It's like a computing prison. A couple of years ago, my then 8 year old daughter (!!!!) was actually told off for using the Run dialog (to fire up notepad) in Windows XP because they removed it from the start menu and was accused of hacking! I literally fucking exploded like a WWII bomb at the clueless peon who made that accusation.

I'm now a school governor to make sure that these morons don't take over the planet.

The kill pretty much every bit of interest there is straight away for most students.
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Actually, there's a growing tendency towards mobile websites (as opposed to native apps). Sure there a certain things that mobile websites can't do, but the majority of the apps out there don't use those things.
I glad that you all think that you all like idea... j45,Im not very tech savvy, but I did create a give feedback tab on my website that would require you input your info. Should I remove the tab and replace it with a list sign up link
Yeah, that's bad, but I get the sense that he's doing some core storage stuff he shouldn't be doing. 10 internal drives? And he should know better than to use the Disk Utility GUI for serious corestorage operations.
i enjoyed reading your post. genuinely curious about why you chose Times New Roman all over the site?
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Dick Proenneke (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Proenneke) did something similar in Alaska. He lived alone, but brought supplies in, had a wood stove, a rifle, and even spent the occasional winter in civilization. He wrote a book about his first couple years:

http://www.amazon.com/One-Mans-Wilderness-Alaskan-Odyssey/dp...

It suffers a little from some heavy editing, but is very interesting. There's also a video that airs on PBS every so often, which is worth watching. He died in 2003, but left his cabin to the National Park Service.

I've been to his cabin, and it's been preserved as he left it. It's amazing what he was able to make with simple tools. The door is particularly neat - the hinges and bear-proof lock are made entirely of wood.

Sometimes it makes me want to move to Alaska and build a cabin. Internet connectivity is a bit of a problem, but I suppose that's the point.
This sounds absurd. Why should any Internet connection be needed to read a book, do exercising in a book, or anything else with a textbook?

Sounds like the school district made some bad technical choices to me.

(edit: perhaps I should have read more of the article, which mentions this...)
It would be shady if Amazon set their prices for video encoding below the price of raw EC2, because then competitors would be in trouble. But they haven't done that.
Yours is a remarkable position. The accuser asserts that he was coerced into sex by Keith, who (simplifying slightly) ran the company and set the policies. Do you think someone like Keith should have the authority to set policies that allow him to coerce his employees into sex? Like a US slave owner before the Civil War?

I'm not asserting that Keith did what he's accused of. But many, many other people have, and if we have to choose, I'd rather see the state monopoly on violence used to protect the victims, not the perpetrators.
Because I've spent no time at all designing my site. If someone wants to redesign it I'd be happy to publicize their efforts :-)
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So, the average hedge fund investor will make less money in her hedge funds than she would have made in an ETF?

I realize that there are benefits in diversification, but travisp is generally correct.
The research mentioned shows that the correlations are close to 0 even within similar work (there aren't many surgeons doing the equivalent of CRUD PHP webapps), which would imply that it's a filter that doesn't actually do you any good. I suppose you're arguing that the correlation is greater than 0 for an engineer and therefore it might be an effective filter. But how much greater? Particularly for industries where skill is important, using a marginally effective employment filter can significantly backfire.
Whole-heartedly agree with what they are trying to do, but I wish they were using a git repo rather than a text control that requires you to be online.
I doubt it.

Google pay little to no corporation tax on profits in the UK (because they ship all of the profits overseas where Corporation tax isn't so expensive).

But Google employ lots of people in the UK so they do contribute a non-insignificant amount to the UK treasury in the way of taxes related to employees (PAYE/CGT on share option grants, NI, etc).

They do the former because they can, the do the latter because they must.
This is Himanshu one of the co-founders of Farm At Hand. We are constantly working on improving existing features and adding new features. We appreciate the feedback and are here to talk to our customers any time they would like. As my co-founder is also a farmer she understands the importance of personal interactions with our users. Feel free to contact me at any time. My email is Himanshu(at)farmathand(dot)com
Do you have some links with information about kqueue being broken? I know that the python integration doesn't work well. We started using polling on OS X instead of watchdog's kqueue driver.

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/watchdog
We built our own for our consultancy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qicebedl_X4
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When I moved from Windows to Linux development I was concerned how that would affect me. Turns out not so much, I just don't debug as much on Linux :)
IDE debuggers make it far too easy to press F5 and see what happens, make a change, press F5 etc without really thinking about what's happening. Iterative coding gone bad.
The only time I use GDB is for the occasional segfault that I can't figure out from back-stepping a few revisions, and it always nails it (which is more than can be said for MSVC)
johnmunch, when you say focus on 1 to 3 products... do think that offering cakepops,cupcakes and cookies are to wide of an assortment or should limit the type of flowers(roses, callo lilies, daisies, etc) that I make?
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That actually made me laugh because it's exactly what I'd probably do with it (or install RISCOS and play Zarch). At the same time, in the process, I'd have to get over a learning curve so perhaps that's not a bad thing.
Definitely realistic. During Y11 I had a fantastic I.T teacher who genuinely cared about technology, at some point the I.T department acquired a couple of LEGO Mindstorms[1]. They were only allowed to be used after school because if they'd been out in the classroom with the "normal" students (those that didn't care about technology) they would have been destroyed. The only reason we (the students that enjoyed technology) got any value out of them was because the I.T teacher put his free time towards teaching us about them and supervising our usage.

He was the only teacher that had a clue about technology and they would have been destroyed or rotted in the cupboard if it weren't for him. Hopefully with the rise of technology in recent years teachers are getting better, the teachers I had (aside from the aforementioned good teacher) were all teaching since the early 90s and I'm pretty sure their qualifications were "has the ability to type" which put them ahead of the pack back then, but now they can't even come close to knowing what a hobbyist 15 year old programmer knows.

That good teacher left the same year I did (he went to Switzerland because apparently they don't have a hard-on for following the shit curriculum there), I wonder if the Mindstorms ever left the cupboard after he did.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Mindstorms#LEGO_MINDSTORMS...

edit: saw your comment below

I'm now a school governor to make sure that these
morons don't take over the planet.

Thank you.
"When the warm days do arrive, though, the taiga blooms, and for a few short months it can seem almost welcoming."

Hahaha. This guy has no idea what he's talking about. As someone who has been in the taiga in the summer, it's absolutely horrible. The air is alive with mosquitoes. There are clouds of them around you 24/7. The place is just permafrost and swamps. It's really pretty, but a miserable place to live. That's why there is no on there.
But, as others have noted, there is something to be said about the more personal nature of a telephone call. Also, we don't broadcast what we had for lunch to our friends and family via telephone. I think it's this shallow, group-level contact that the author is targeting, not necessarily one-on-one messaging, although "pixels" are undeniably less personal than voice, which is arguably less personal than face-to-face contact.
I'm not sure if you're aware of it, but Apple isn't on the PowerPC or MC68k arch anymore. Would you expect them to continue supporting apps that were made to run on the PowerPC & Motorola 68k chips too?
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I have totally never heard of it.
Coudln't agree more.

Some comments as a biz dev guy (and very ordinary coder):

1. Don't feel you need to hire a sales gun with a network. A sales person with an awesome attitude and belief in your product is quite sufficient. I sell to mid-market companies (100-500 employees), that is a pretty huge segment of the AU market and I expect is the same in many other countries. It's literally impossible to expect to hire salespeople who have great connections across such a broad space. The best you will find is they can line up a few "first meetings" in one vertical. Maybe good connections at 1 company, maybe 5, but realistically 15+? Forget it. Any salesperson who tells you differently is talking themselves up more than they should. The job is about cold calling, running events, lots of demo's and lots and lots of discovery, to find real solutions that work for rational business buyers who won't sign off on something until they see its benefits.

2. Have a look at some of the faster growing software firms. They are moving up to enterprise, but often started in SME and the mid market. Start in the middle rungs and you'll find a big hole - comments on some of these threads seems to suggest the decision is binary - either small SME's or large enterprises. The gap in the middle area is huge. You can also generally skip the complications big consultancies bring with them too, most customers budgets and corresponding demands are too small for them to get interested in.

3. B2B buyers care more about fixing their problem than the underlying technology. IT buyers always prefer to find a "platform", and take bite size chunks out of the real business problems in a phase 1,2,3,x over months/years. I know big companies using Mailchimp, because it was initially purchased with a credit card by a marketer. A good demo targeted to meet the customers needs (which you have explored previously) gets you much further than trying to build the perfect solution for IT (unless you are Oracle, SAP, salesforce etc).

4. If you're selling SaaS, it's not about a shiny demo with no product substance underneath. Perhaps if you're asking for $50 per month you can get away with it, but after a month or two you'll lose your renewal. If you're asking for $10k per month at least one person's job will be on the line internally, they will do their research to make sure there is substance to your claims. Same goes for $1k in a smaller business, it is all relative, especially in this post-GFC age.

One final comment. Sales people aren't expensive if you structure their plans right. Their bases should be low, their bonuses should be high. Make it so if they sell $1M they earn about $250k, you can get away with a sub 100k base.

Sales people are expensive if you pay high bases to unmotivated, un-passionate people who are just good talkers.

Knowing this, either make a call that you will build a successful business without salespeople (aka Mailchimp, Atlassian), or ensure your value proposition and price points are tested enough to support a full timer. Elastic which might work as a nice "middle" option as well (I'm not affiliated). https://elasticsales.com/
If only providing the answers to these questions was as simple as reading through the image and saying "yes" or "no". In actual fact, the process of satisfying them of the answer and getting them to record that properly and consistently for the next person is incredibly frustrating.

edit: I've been through it myself. "Insanely confusing" is spot-on accurate - the process of answering each question on this graph is confusing in and of itself.
1-3% equity for an employee of an early stage startup sounds ridiculously low. Are employees taking less risk than founders ? I think unless you pay salaries at standard market price they should be considered founders.
I have to wonder what research says about confirming 'facts' so close to hearing a statement from someone. This seems to me like it is worth more as a propaganda tool than anything else, especially since statements can be taken out of context before someone finishes their narrative.
You're definitely not going to be able to run a MacOS executable from 1992. There is less backwards compatibility in OS X compared to Windows, but to claim there is a lack of any emphasis on it is to forget the ability to run Classic in OS X, the transitional Carbon API for porting old apps to the new platform, the Rosetta runtime that ran PowerPC apps on Intel processors, and so on.

Granted, Apple isn't interested in maintaining 20 years of compatibility, so these features are no longer supported. However, they served their purpose at the time of their usefulness.

Xcode might be considered unique in that it targets Apple's latest platforms for development, so it's not necessarily surprising that it doesn't support an older version of OS X. I assume you were running Snow Leopard, which came out nearly four years ago.
My favorite: "Large Hadron Collider will destroy Earth."
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This is a good point and perhaps the reverse case: e.g. immigrants who have become citizens, would be even more interesting. For example the % of Americans foreign born is higher than this (I believe) but many have already received citizenship and are presumably not counted here.
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To be fair, the plight of the Lisp developer has come a long way since those dark days.
While HTML5 hasn't been employed heavily by the gaming industry, signs of it are showing up. Gas Powered Games' recently teased "Project Mercury", their next-gen cloud powered Modding Tool & Web platform – http://youtu.be/kuGdQqUhKD4

Such projects are possible only due to HTML5/WebGL, and the innovations on top of it. In a couple of years, we'd be seeing mainstream studios shipping AAA Games as Web-based applications.
16GB is fine if all you're doing is using iTunes Match and/or Netflix and not too many big game apps, etc.

Not for the power user or "homesteader" ie, I put most of my music/apps/movies on my 64GB model.
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4 / 2.5 should be an error?

Okay, then. Never mind that essentially no language in widespread use enforces that.
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Please re-read my comment. I'm not saying you need options to get rid of a large block of shares.

What I'm saying is that trying to get rid of a lot of shares through $30MM worth of a reconv is very ineficient, if not downright stupid.
GS set a price target on Apple of $760 within 12 months, indicating to clients that Apple's share price will rise. Yet at the same time GS themselves dispose of convertible bonds which are about to convert into Apple shares. Does it sound like GS really believes in its own advice to clients?
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Snow Leopard was indeed the high water mark for OSX, and probably will be. It will be a real shame when SL is end of lifed and 3rd parties no longer target it, etc.
Probably similar to the way many New Yorkers move to Pennsylvania and many Pennsylvanians move to NY each year.

But perhaps in the UK case: we'd probably see that those leaving tend to be retirees whereas those coming are coming to work!
It is not "anti" at all. Like I wrote already, the point isn't to replace the convenience of facebook. It is to seek alternatives that will "do the job". Yes, the postal service is absolutely an alternative, whether you agree or not. It is a means of old communication. Yes, it's a bit "inconvenient" but it works.

Complacency is not a good argument: "the majority of people I know use it so it shouldn't be criticized for the sake of convenience". That's what I hear, maybe I'm deaf.

Jitsi or Ekiga or any other type of open technology can effectively replace facebook quite well. They also give you "the psychological benefits of just feeling connected". I would submit that the Internet fills that niche, not Facebook or others like it.

People can use it all they want. Fine, no problem. But to lean on the idea that it is somehow impossible to delete an account without becoming a hermit is, in my view, a complete asinine idea.
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You will be talking about the framework?
A massive existing userbase that has proven surprisingly loyal despite lagging product offerings.
This.

"I would posit to you that it would help, if you took an inventory of what you have to be thankful for... and started from that position, that life may look a bit brighter."