skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
UDF is pretty cool. It is an open standard supported by Windows and Mac OS X, but for some reason linux doesn't support versions higher than 2.01

Maybe somebody here has the skill and time to fix this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Disk_Format
Like antics said, this isn't true for graph planning. Here are three concrete examples that I know of:

1. Anytime D* was used by the winner of the DARPA Urban Challenge

2. Field D* was used by Spirit and Opportunity on Mars

3. ARA* (and other A* variants) are a method of optimal motion planning in robotic manipulation
Let's clarify the author's use case: a multi-boot system for which he's looking for a universally compatible filesystem.

There are various reasons why this doesn't exist, at least not beyond compromise solutions such as vfat. A transfer partition and use of archive formats would largely suffice.

The larger problem though is expecting to be able to manage the same storage on a multi-boot system from multiple operating systems. It's one of the reasons that multi-boot is a poor alternative to virtualized systems.

The author could configure his alternative OSes as VMs, and transfer files via virtual networking, either via transfers (scp, etc.), or via mounted networked filesystems (CIFS/sambafs, NFS). Compatibility issues are handled by the networking protocols (or by using archive formats), and simultaneous access to multiple environments is available.
So many college graduates escape to Silicon Valley precisely to avoid these standard expectations for romance.

The article is wrong about what holds back relationships for 20s engineers. It isn't careerism as she claims. It's that the engineer is a militant libertarian, an autistic savant or a polymath of software development.

No normal woman wants to date a passionately unempathetic man. If you can't sympathize with poor people, or things that don't interest you (like humanities majors), how are you supposed to convince a normal woman you care about her feelings and her passions in spite of your voracious narcissism and ego?

OkCupid and polyamory are our sexual revolution, not "affairs." IVFs and surrogates are our reproductive revolutions. Technology exists to make the frightening Unempathetic Man capable of reproducing himself (and feeling sexually satisfied).

I feel extraordinarily lucky that I got to date a normal white girl my age at my school from 20-22 in college. I'm glad we still love each other as adults. I look down Mass Ave and wonder in terror how different my life would be if the women I met thought having two simultaneous boyfriends was okay.
Online Reputation Ruin: A Victim's Memoir
So instead of having an aspect ratio that fits computing, you prefer to work around a movie-fitting aspect ratio.
Wish I had not read it. Make this go away.
I can only speak from my own experience but I found myself largely nodding my head (I've recently joined the early thirties crowd).

I worked in SV right out of college - Facebook was basically a blip on the radar and the coolest mobile phones still had physical buttons. I worked my ass off the first few years mostly because I had landed a great paying job (meaning I no longer was making 12/hr) and had no idea what kind of performance was not good enough. It was really fun and exciting for a while. I was fortunate to meet and marry someone that was right for me during my "later years" in SV. Being a proud geek I have been in a few relationships before but was not and am still not a relationship guru. The only thing I do know is that a (real, long-term) relationship will most likely push both of you to the max on everything... fun, happiness, stress, frustration, disappointment, etc, etc. While it has always had its ups and downs I feel very fortunate - the tech stuff is fun, I still enjoy it but the relationship, family, kids etc makes life really dynamic (sometimes in ways you may not like but its part of the deal).

I know I may sound like an old man but I think Id tell any aspiring techie coming out of school to try to make it a priority to figure out if they want to be married (and if so obviously to whom) and if they want to have kids. (As a note there is nothing wrong with not wanting these things) From my own experience I've felt that in your 20s (within the tech world) there are mostly only socioeconomic influences that deter you from going that route whether its the cost of living in the city or a professional dream that seemingly needs your full-time dedication. While it is not a ticking time bomb there definitely are certainly some fuzzy limits on the time you have to do these things that seem to come faster than you might think. (I dont want to get into a discussion about menopause or marriage later in life but I think its healthy to recognize the marriage/kids stuff does slowly get progressively harder later in life for most people).

Anyhow for me around 30 life started to look a little bit different to me. I like my work but its just a piece of my life. I used to spend 90% of my time working in tech or going home and playing with tech. I still do so to some degree but I have to admit that Im glad its no longer my only primary thing Im involved with.
Bmote: This is part of the Guix project and will bring a official bootable system from GNU, one with Linux-libre and one with HURD.
There's Photoshop scripts that will export a single image in a bunch of sizes. That would probably work in the interim.
It does depend on the license used. Some licenses ensure that any code changes must be released publicly. This is why Apple has rewritten a number of Apple internals so that they can be used under a bsd license
Zuck spent 50 minutes with his girlfriend a week when he was starting Facebook.
From the FAQ:

> Q: What's different about this compared to BLOKK?

> A: BLOKK has unusually large character widths, which adds much length to "standard" bits of dummy text, and also creates unecessarily ragged rags in my copy. Redacted solves this by using sane character widths; averaging character widths of narrow, regular, and wide characters of standard fonts. This gives a more realistic look to the text and helps it fit into narrow columns like real text would. Redacted Font also comes with script versions in two weights: bold and regular.
It was a slightly facetious response. Either way rewarding bad behaviour by sharing private business information with a patent troll does not seem like a sensible course of action.

Isn't the aim of extortionists pre-trial settlement or realisation that there are easier / more lucrative 'marks', so wouldn't actual patent trial numbers provide little indication of the low-level activity of patent-trolls?
What to do when someone say I am a looser?
It just makes me loose motivation.what can I do so it doesn't affect me ?
Why does it have to be one or the other? Why can't we standardize on one file system that has to be supported by all OSes out of the box and provides fairly good read/write speed with no artificial file size limits such as FAT32 and let innovation take place inside other file systems ?
Bread & circuses.
Please stop advertising.
Any chance you wrote about it somewhere ?
Down arrows are broken, they appear as up arrows for me. The HTML is probably not easy to parse as there are no classes, but it's like the up arrows but with 'down' instead of 'up' in both id and href.

Also, the edit form is broken for comments and arrows appear beside all the links - they are being treated as upvotes I assume.
I am sure the audience on here is mostly already familiar with the Panopticon, but it sure feels like our society is becoming it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon
I'm 17 at the moment - been freelancing and doing paid work since I was 12. The way I see it is, people who discredit you because of your age are not the people you want to work for anyway. Stick to it and you will get there.
I'm guessing you're male, and that's why. Also, good luck and keep going.
I think this is a great move. Most people are shitty remote workers.
The biggest concern with JSON seems to be the lack of comments. So what voodoo is Sublime Text 2 performing? Why can't we just use that?

{
// Sets the colors used within the text area
"color_scheme": "Packages/Color Scheme - Default/Monokai.tmTheme",

// Note that the font_face and font_size are overriden in the platform
// specific settings file, for example, "Preferences (Linux).sublime-settings".
// Because of this, setting them here will have no effect: you must set them
// in your User File Preferences.
"font_face": "",
"font_size": 12,

// Valid options are "no_bold", "no_italic", "no_antialias", "gray_antialias",
// "subpixel_antialias", "no_round" (OS X only) and "directwrite" (Windows only)
"font_options": [],

// Characters that are considered to separate words
"word_separators": "./\\()\"'-:,.;<>~!@#$%^&*|+=[]{}`~?",

// Set to false to prevent line numbers being drawn in the gutter
"line_numbers": true
}
Gender is so unbelievably, incredibly evil. Ban it until it's consensual.
> It remains to be seen if some of the capabilities get abused

I think it's axiomatic that whenever the tools for oppression are put in place it's only a matter of time before they are used. It'll start with something simple. Some national outrage which the party in government responds to by deploying the drones. Then it'll become normalized. And soon enough it'll become "but what have you to fear if you have nothing to hide" - which in a country with so many ways for everyday citizens to be in breach of its byzantine laws really means it becomes almost discretionary whether you're picked up for one thing or another unless you conform to the whims of the ruling elite.

I think Europeans (of which I am one, prior to becoming an American) tend to have a closer relationship to the abuse of totalitarian tools under the guise of good intentions (particularly those of us over a certain age).
>And so founders who want to have the best chances at "winning" have to create an aura of momentum, of inevitable success, around themselves and their companies. That's perfectly understandable too.

Well, we can't all be Bill Fucking Nguyen thank goodness. I suppose it's expecting too much for people who are responsible for investing millions of other people's dollars to realize that sometimes people who appear "driven" and "visionary" are actually "full of shit" and "criminally insane".
Or there market is much greater?
I wish there were more posts on HN like this. This is super cool, interesting, and a neat simple solution to a problem, even if it didn't work in the end!
What about network filesystems?

They can be quite fast if you aren't running them over a physical network, such as between host and VM operating system on a single physical machine.

My preferred solution to your use case would be to run Linux in a virtual machine, configure the VM platform separately in each host OS to give the guest direct access to a dedicated raw partition in ext4 or any other Linux-compatible format, then serve Samba or some network filesystem to the host from the guest. (Of course, if Linux is your host, you can just mount the dedicated partition directly from the command line or fstab.)

Back when Windows was my main OS, I liked Colinux [1], a port of user-mode Linux [2] which allows you to run the Linux kernel as a native Windows binary.

But nowadays my first recommendation would be Virtualbox. You could also try qemu, it might have better Mac support.

[1] http://www.colinux.org/

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_mode_linux
I love it when government representatives, who in principle have the right to shoot you on the spot if you break their rules, pose as innocent victims of ordinary citizens who never volunteered to go through their bureaucratic procedures.

I suspect the DHS person who posted hisreply to Arrington's original post will receive at minimum a dressing-down once the managerial class realize what he's done. It's considered very bad form to argue with mere civilians -- it sends a signal of weakness.
On the other hand, the perception that being onsite makes me more valuable is the reason I get paid more than somebody in Peoria or Phuket. Even though I think that perception is probably false, I moved to the Valley because I might as well benefit rather than suffer from it. If remote work were the norm, we'd all be competing with people who currently work for rates that would barely feed us, and I'm still surprised the industry sort of gave up on outsourcing rather than solve the fraud problem.
This has been fixed. [1]

[1] - https://github.com/mojombo/toml/commit/aa4ac1d6df1031ebe871c...
UDF is pretty much that
As a mobile app developer, We've been threatened by trolls before as well. So far non of them have followed through and filed suit and the strategy of ignoring them has worked out for us. However, our lawyer helped us gauge the litigation risk before we made the decision to do nothing.
> I'm sick of being given life advice by weathly, privileged Americans who think they're wise because they've made it to their thirties without massively fucking anything up.

Eek.
If this had be done by any Tom no one would have upvoted
The issue here might be that JSON has become widely used for two things:

Data marshalling/transfer
Config formats

For the latter, as they are typically written by hand, it's not particularly appropriate as the syntax is noisy and multiple nesting with brackets tends to lead to errors, even if you understand it perfectly well in principle, and of course there are no comments, no datetimes etc.

I imagine this is intended as a saner version of YAML for configs.
Last year, I did Academic Decathlon and we had an enormous binder containing study material for seven subjects.

Being the lazy and practical boy I am, I chose to instead read the PDFs on my tablet (10 inches) instead. While it worked for me, I can definitely say that things were easier with the paper version.

Being able to flip back and review something quickly (What battle was Shaka Zulu famous for again?) and then resume reading is huge and something that doesn't work very well on tablets at the moment. Will it ever improve? Probably. But I don't think we'll get to the point where it becomes better than paper in that aspect. The tangible aspect of paper is just so nice.
Empathy. Why are they saying that? Do they need to make themselves feel better by putting you down? Are they having a crappy day and taking it out on you?

People are not naturally cruel. There are reasons. If you look for those reasons it's much easier to understand why they would want to hurt you.

The trap here is that if you care about being called a loser, you have self doubt. That's fine, most people can improve in one way or another. But the kind of person who can accurately criticize, and helpfully criticize, is never the person who uses a dismissive term like loser.

Even if they are being cruel, they probably arn't being terribly creative about it. Go watch Full Metal Jacket and see how a real badass insults people.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2008/12/16/issues/youn...

Zainichi Koreans can get North or South Ko

rean passports. They are exempt from military service unless they move to Korea. Connotations and denotations of language change, zainichi means temporary and chosen means korea but zainichi chosen refers to born and raised on Japan people with Korean citizenship or an entitlement to same, not people studying abroad or similar.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zainichi_Korean

See footnote 1
You need to have some balance though. It's good to do things to make yourself more attractive to women, but you also need to evaluate - quickly - whether a woman finds you attractive. If you think she doesn't, if you suspect she doesn't, even if you think maybe she might be interested but you're not sure, drop her like a sack of dirt and don't look back.

Most women will make up their mind about you within 10 minutes after meeting you. Often even less than that. You have to do the same.
Ask HN: How to stay informed about new software trends without scanning news?
That is new platforms, patterns, tools, services, etc.
If you do not know about Minix and Microkernels, you probably want to dig into the famous debate between Tanenbaum and Torvalds.

http://oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/appa.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanenbaum%E2%80%93Torvalds_deba...
I don't disagree with what you're saying.

If I were to sum up why YC might have succeeded like it did, I'd say that pg is great at pattern recognition and is better than most at figuring out who might become a great entrepreneur vs. who is just posturing, which increases (but doesn't at all guarantee) his chances of finding great founders capable of building great companies.

Of course, things played out pretty well for pg, but with less luck perhaps it might've taken a longer time for them to find their Airbnb/Dropbox, or perhaps Drew Houston and the three co-founders of Airbnb might have failed several times before hitting their respective home runs. In which case TechStars and 500 Startups (admitted copycats of YC) might never have come into existence.

pg's knack for identifying great founders doesn't guarantee that everyone who gets into YC is going to be "great," just like there are probably plenty of not-so-capable people in Harvard who somehow still managed to get in.

But I would posit that the % of potential great founders is significantly higher at YC than at other accelerators (due to brand, prestige, whatever), which in the short run doesn't mean much but which over time will be greatly and increasingly to their advantage.
I agree with other commenters on this topic that really this is about forcing attrition. At some point Yahoo has to make big layoffs. We all know it. They know it. They employees there know it.

Getting a bunch of folks to jump before they're pushed is a great start. It reminds me of the two Bobs from office space: "we fixed the glitch... we tend to find it best to avoid confrontation".

There are plenty of rationalizations for both sides of this decision. I lean to the simplest explanation. They're happy to see folks go.
Saw this thread when it had just 2 points and hoped it won't get upvoted since it's just -- sorry to say -- a useless post full of misinformation without delivering any message. I highly doubt the author has enough experience with building relationships, getting laid, get the right one and so on:

Now, since it's on the front page my view. You have two options:

Either you spend your time in your early 20s chasing women and spending all your time on building relationships and getting laid or:

Start at least 5 startups until you are 25 and hope that one of them gets kind of profitable or even better and you do an exit. Starting later is getting harder and harder, you are spoiled by high salaries and laid back office work and suddenly you have a child and it's getting to risky to start anything. The experience you make as an employee hardly help you as an entrepreneur but you need to fail often as an entrepreneur -- every failed startup brings you tons of experience and closer to a successful company.

Back to the girls: if you got successful with your startups you don't have to think about relationships and girls -- you'll send so much self-confidence and they're will be tons of opportunities. And even if you still do startups which didn't succeed you have much more to tell then any office drone. You'll have much more opportunities than those who desperately looking for the SO without having a life or anything to tell. That doesn't mean that you should omit any social life or getting laid while building a startup, it just means don't focus on this, focus on being an entrepreneur.
Don't focus on doing only one thing. You can be average at doing something and great at something else. If you're only writing code, start doing something that's completely unrelated to computers, like handicrafts so that you have more than one metric by which people could (if they dare) judge you. A good metric to live by is how many smiles can you put on other people's faces around you. If you started some sort of handicraft, you could make cheap to manufacture, high emotional value gifts or products that others would love and if you can make other people happy and they like you back, you just have a legitimate reason to slap that person who called you a loser senseless next time he/she dares to say that again. Most important, live by your own standards and do more than one thing so that you have many standards.
I've noticed another bad practise: many sites use Masonry-like plugins for everything - even to build simple grid layout where each item has equal size.

Stop using Masonry for everything!
This is pretty personal stuff to say using an account that's tied to my real name, but hey, we're all friends here now, so why not.

I'm in the target demographic for this post (I turn 29 on Tuesday), and I'm seriously considering making a conscious decision to be permanently single.

I understand that people find a lot of happiness in relationships, but I just don't think I'm capable of making room in my life for another person, and I don't think I'd make a particularly good boyfriend. I'd have to become a dramatically better person - something I don't know if I have it in me to do.

Does this make me somehow broken? Are there others who feel this way too?
Minix is very good for learning internals of operating system.
In my second year of undergrad, I went through the code of minix and and it was a great learning experience. I could learn a lot about the internals of operating system by looking at real working code rather than just reading theories.
The Linux code is too complicated for beginner. I think, Linux can not replace minix in educational world.
I know. I thought I wasn't supposed to have introspective life crises until middle age. At 27, this wave of 20s themed self improvement/"watch out" articles are making me feel like a failure the same way Calvin Klein ads make me feel like I'll never be attractive.

The most depressing part about the article is that it starts out with the assumptions that you have opportunities for relationships available to you that you're willingly passing on and that you're getting laid on "a regular basis".

Yeah, write me an article on how to satisfy your assumptions first, and then I'll follow whatever advice you've got about what comes afterward.
Snowmanzzz
Clearly it must be that Saturn is a truncated icosahedron or similar. it was probably laser-cut by the aliens in the galactic planet factory.
Ask HN: is there a place for single-person bootstrapped software businesses?
I was thinking and trying to starting my own bootstrapped (read: very little money upfront) software business (not a consultancy) for some time.

The situation as I understand it:

B2C. Lots of VC-backed companies which can afford to make their products and websites pretty. Expensive, I can't.

B2B. Selling to businesses requires a lot of sales work. Expensive.

B2D. Very crowded space, also a lot of companies with funding.

Is there still a place for single-person bootstrapped company which cannot afford to spend money or time on anything, but the product itself?

A little background: I live in the remote part of the world where most of the IT is doing local business support, and unable to relocate any time soon. I am also stuck with full-time job to support my family and repay mortgage. Laws here make it very expensive to employ people and nearly impossible to fire employees.