skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought ZFS on OS X was read-only.

Linux ZFS is still quite young, only supports a very early version of the fs, and can't be updated to the newest without serious reverse-engineering.

As for ZFS on windows, I definitely would not hold my breath.

I ran into the same frustration as the author and gave up. My notebook triple-boots Linux, Solaris 11, and OS X (I have no use for windows) and would be beyond thrilled to have ZFS shared among them.

One other problem with the idea though... you'd have to export the shared fs each time you shut down and import it into the next OS you booted, which would be kind of a pain (of course you could force the imports, but that's ugly and it only saves one step).
I think this isn't really a 20s issue. You should always seek balance.
For Heaven’s Sake, Finish It Off In Your 20′s
I applaud Mayer's decision, because I loathe collaborating with remotes at my workplace. I can't just walk to a remote's office to ask them a question. I can't do in-person code reviews. In meetings, remotes miss out on all the natural human interactions and cues, so they constantly interrupt someone who is about to speak. Remotes can't talk to a specific person, so we all have to stop talking when any of them talk. Technical issues with the software are a constant annoyance, and slow all of us down. And God help us if there's more than one remote in a meeting: they talk over each other all the time.

I view remotes as a drain on the workplace and on my productivity, and I resent them for it. I've made the choice to live near my company's HQ, and make that damn commute every day, so that my workplace gets the best of me. Remotes have not, and I wonder if they get paid the same as me while they sit at home, and I view them as selfish.

The prospect of not having to tolerate remotes actually perks my interest in working at Yahoo.
I think that's a better way to characterise it, but I was definitely referring to the famous Torvalds/Tannenbaum debate.
Youtube New UI & UX - Open Source Player for Youtube - Echoes
Echoes is a new UI Experience for listening and watching music videos and playlist from youtube.
Echoes is also an open source project based on Backbone.js which is driven by the community - for features and requests.
Retro is Reborn: A Look at the Color Trend
Is retro color coming back? Looking at retro color palettes. How to use them. What kind of colors to select and sites that are using this trend well.
Ruby 2.0.0 Released
This sounds isolating, and you'll lose a few hours of sunlight in spring/summer months.

To quote Seinfeld: Serenity now, insanity later.
It is pretty much unreadable in Firefox on OS X too.
Do you have experience using this through Windows? I haven't heard of many successful stories of doing so.
That seems to be contradictory:

> Everything I've done in my adult life has been motivated by my desire to be attractive to women that I'm interested in;
Seems interesting. Has ways to go until production ready, but even so I think there's potential here. I'm not sure I dig the "wheels" branding because long term it can cause people to maybe needlessly view this in comparison to RoR, with this being a pure Python based architecture and not a straight port.
"Loose" rhymes with "goose". It's the opposite of "Tight".

"Lose" rhymes with "news" and is the opposite of "Win". You probably mean "Lose".
Well, to be fair, your calculator seems to miss the point of being a calculator...

> 10/2*2
2.5
this ^ 100

I started my PhD last year and was shocked at how intentionally broken academic e-books are. A few examples of daily experiences that send me into fits of frustrated rage and incredulity.

- ebook substitute for a text that only allows online perusal and restrict download for offline use.
- ebooks that only allow access to one user per institution at a time (in an institution with 30k+ students)
- ebooks that can only be viewed by adobe digital editions.
- journal article pdf downloads that only display bitmap images of text so that copying quotes is impossible.

I'd much rather use electronic resources as physical storage of 200 texts per years is just nuts, but sadly, publishers would rather extract rent from a broken system.
Yeah, it was my bad... I should have replaced the HDD with another one and kept his old data while trying this.

I even use testdisk in an attempt to recover the HDD but had no luck.
> I'm a rich startup guy in NYC and I can't get a date.

This is weird as long you got rich by your own startup/achievements. Then, you really need some help. As cheesy it may sounds you should get quickly some PUA resources and/or training. Getting laid and the SO is 70% about self-confidence and having state and 30% about tactics/getting reframed/brainwashed which you get from PUA's. Do this today. Every men should once get into this stuff.
Like hell it has. People know what ML means at the end of a file format.
Really? I've never heard that complaint before. I didn't do much of anything outside of pick a standard Wordpress template, so I can't imagine it would use a font that isn't pretty universal.

It's supposed to look like this:
http://www.designfreebies.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/fre...

My hosting service has been having trouble serving assets recently. I'm wondering if that might be the problem...
My favorite new feature. Keywords arguments. As a Python convert, I really missed those.
Posts like yours make me want to cut off my penis and write "Eunuch" under "Sex" on my ID. But I won't, because the government won't let me first, and because I'm more of a chill kind of person, second.
Having worked at a large software corp I totally agreethat if you're a remote worker you have to work twice as hard on your output. Since you're not there in person to attend all the meetings, you're less "seen". This adds more pressure on you to deliver, get on calls, work weekends, etc.. I've seen people working from home in Australia and deliver amazing results (for a based SF company). If this is indeed about attrition, I think they may be losing more of the people that they would probably want to keep.
I disagree. I have had success in tech twice. Trying to talk about it usually bores my dates. I could talk about it all day with someone who was interested, but for some strange reason the topics of web development and working from home simply don't tantalize them. It's given me zero boost to confidence in dating.
Not really the approach you describe but quite some time ago I came across an experimental project which used a C implementation of Apache Lucene (I think that was called Lucy) to implement a new approach to file management, based on full-text search, where you don't store the files in a hierarchy but use more a concept liket tags and what a file is about and stuff like that. I thought it was pretty cool and the demo I tried worked pretty well for me. Unfortunately I can't find it anymore and can't remember the name or anything. I think this is a very interesting approach.
Hey, I definitely do have skills, but they are just not web design skills: I've got a plenty of diverse software engineering experience, ranging from QA to leading software engineering teams and to designing network protocols (besides a lot of code written).
Getting 1000 applicants is fine but at the end of the day, the important number is how many of the applicants were so talented that they were hired.

I initially skip the "sales pitch" part of job ads ("why we're so awesome") and look at what technologies the company is using and then at how interesting the problems they are trying to solve are.
I like the format. A formal spec would be nice, to aid implementations in as many languages as possible.
It doesn't matter what you do beforehand, the goal is to connect them. I've built an entire app like this too and it's a great problem to solve, probably the greatest of all, however you will hit a wall in 2-3 months once you figure out that you can't market it and that you can't raise money from investors, because they have been pitched this 100 times before and they know the problems.

Just go for one use-case, really. :)
What if one is not on twitter? Are there email invites available, a la lobste.rs ?
Also their search is worthless
http://ajean.net/2012/12/16/pinterest-search-is-pitiful/
Responding to: "deathbed wishes rarely include, 'If only I had put another twenty hours a week in at the office! That slightly cleaner product release would have made all the difference.'"

Not that it matters all that much, but I honestly believe deathbed wishes often include "I wish I had more of an impact on the world". You can get that through relationships (by procreating), or you can get that through building stuff. Or a combination of both.

Trying to trivialize the hard work people do to release products is like trivializing the time people spend at the gym or the salon, attempting to stay attractive in order to establish better relationships.

It's a small part of something larger. Trying to change the world by building stuff is not something to be ashamed of.
Hashtag self indulgence
Circa 1999 I studied Minix in a operating design course, but in the same way we studied Amoeba or Mach; in fact we used a pre 1.0 Linux kernel for practice (I don't remember the distro, it could be custom), and it was small enough to understand the different parts, hack, compile and run.

"Operating Systems: Design and Implementation" (included Minix) and "Modern Operating Systems" are great books and I think is because of them that Minix is relevant in OS teaching (specially OSDI, although I enjoyed MOS too).

EDIT: typo
I actually relate rather strongly to your post...I've eventually come to the conclusion that there is absolutely nothing wrong with wanting to stay single. I feel that sometimes people put too much emphasis on sex and relationships as a mandatory part of a successful life.

Girlfriends take up a LOT of time. If you find someone who's a perfect match, then go for it. But scooping out valuable time in your life for a relationship that's merely ho-hum probably isn't worth it. For people who are very smart, like a good portion of the tech crowd, the relative stupidity of the general population eliminates a good portion of women, too, which certainly exacerbates the situation.

Mathematically speaking, I know the chances of me finding a long term significant other are very small. My last girlfriend was an electrical engineer, and she moved to the midwest from the east coast. It was great while it lasted, but she was literally the only attractive smart and technical person I've ever met in this area who was interested in people like me. Whenever I see my friends with their girlfriends, it always makes me feel a bit lonely. I know that logically speaking, it's not something I can or should have, since I don't think I'd make a very good significant other (for some difficult personal reasons). But it's still something that bothers me at night.
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I think we can thank Apple (at least to some great extent) for this. It was really hard to get my mom on email and browsing in general before she got an iPad. It's not that she didn't know how to, it was more that the experience of sitting in front of a computer, having been a teacher a ll her life, wasn't something that was natural for her. With her iPad, she's much more on-line and it's kind of like the internet (physically) came to her and not the traditional other way around.
How do you know they aren't just honeypot mysql instances?
> make me want to cut off my penis and write "Eunuch" under "Sex" on my ID.

Just getting your testicles removed would do the job too -- but seriously, please get some advice before doing anything.
How do you measure output? If I walk to my coworker's office to ask a question, and that saves me fifteen minutes of digging, that reflects in my output, not his. But if my coworker is remote, I can't do that. I can't get an immediate answer, while he avoids the distraction of helping his team member. In terms of measuring individual output, he looks good, while I look bad.

I believe that co-location forms a sort of prisoner's dilemma. If everyone is local, everyone benefits from increased collaboration, morale, etc. If one person is remote, they benefit more, while acting as a drain on the remainder of the team. And when everyone is remote, then everyone loses.
I don't think recovery after dd would be possible. Also, why if=/dev/random and not if=/dev/zero?
Andreessen Horowitz, wake up and open a branch in Israel
ruby pls
that looks like they're talking about doubleclick, not google analytics. GA works by setting a first party cookie, so there's no need to work around anything. https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection...

edit: oh, jonknee already mentioned that below.
No reason it can't be both.
I am a lawyer and normally my advice would be to consult a lawyer. And, if you can find a lawyer to do an initial consultation for free, I'd do that.

However, in the case where you think the other party is bluffing, I would not hire a lawyer right away. The other party's only enforcement option is suing you. If they sue you, then hire a lawyer.

The big issue is whether to respond. If you don't respond, they will stop contacting you after a certain number of attempts. If you do respond, you will get their attention. That can be good if you think you have a strong defense like mistaken identity or something. If I were you, I would ignore them and see if they sue.

Edit: I looked up Lemer & Company and they are personal injury lawyers, not patent attorneys. They were probably hired only to write scary letters, which is more reason to ignore them until if or when they refer the case to patent counsel for litigation.
Ruby rocks my socks.
That project isn't actively maintained at the moment (nor is it an official GitHub project), but I'll see what I can do tomorrow to get it merged in and released. Sorry for the frustration!
What's the motive behind the U.S. government revealing this to the public? I can't seem to logically come to any conclusion.
This a download link for a PDF. Please either don't do this or note it in the title. Not everyone wants to download a PDF to their mobile device.
This is pretty exciting. Might be too early to tell, but it feels like the Ruby versioning recently has been done very right. The switch from 1.8.x to 1.9.x was slightly painful, but I think 80% of Rubyists have made the jump.

I'm hopeful and expecting the switch to 2.0 by 80% of Rubyists in 2013.

Compared to the adoption of major version releases by Python/Java/C#/PHP, I think that's something the Ruby core release team can be proud of.
2.0 on the 20th. Happy 20th!
As someone having a little over 6 TB of ZFS storage in my Linux home server:

How does that fit the 'One file system on Linux, OS X and _Windows_' requirement? ZFS is useless for this scenario. No need to sell it if it cannot even start in this competition.

Edit: On top of that, some features that you're selling aren't completely available cross-platform (i.e. builtin NTS/SMB support on Linux, encryption is(?) Solaris only iirc).
It isn't right now, the interface is fine but the apps are really slow. The second problem is, the apps are written for the web, for example you often don't know where you are without an url.

Native apps, especially the popular ones are decent on a device like this. They were written for small screens and have a usage flow that is perfect for that form factor.
You are correct.

I love my kindle fire. I have in the past six months read all of the G.R.R. Martin books. I have also read x < 10 non-fiction books. Took notes on all of them. Perfect for this sort of thing.

Programming and technical books are fucking terrible for this. The interface, ability to search, and translation into the real world are just not interactive enough.

They just don't match the ability to flip through the pages like in the physical world.
Very good point and I forgot to write it. You are totally right women usually won't get it when you talk about let's say business related achievements because they are often not interested and don't get it AND MUCH MORE IMPORTANT: because you are qualifying in that moment: you send the signal 'hey look, I am doing impressive stuff, I am special, please like me' which makes you again needy and unattractive -- now we are knee deep in PUA stuff -- that's too obvious and women aren't stupid, you have to learn how you transform the energy you got by your achievements into your general self-confidence. Telling that you are an entrepreneur who makes tons of money is the wrong way. You will signal this automatically without telling anything about your startup life. When I peaked in my professional life I told that I am a "grocery bagger" and I converted 100% to the next step while converting 0% when I told the truth.

Then, when closed and in later stages your startup life gets more relevant since it shows that do stuff that matters and it helps transforming an one-night-affair into a relationship.

Guys, if you haven't done this before, now is the time, get PUA stuff and learn this like you'd learn Go or C++.
The value Feb 23 2013 7:32:14AM never changes, but the result of the function now() does change from time to time.

I don't know if the above makes any sense to you.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Value-Values
Ruby is now also 20 years old.
https://twitter.com/yukihiro_matz/status/305334327938519040
Updated the title. Sorry for the inconvenience.
I've spent about 3hrs trying to get the fsharp binding working in xamarin studio but no luck. How did you get it working?
FWIW I've also recognized the problem and wrote and implemented my own configuration syntax, which makes the aforementioned JSON data look like:

[because=[[80=percent][of=JSON;is=brackets]]]

The implementation, which is in Haxe and has an informal spec in comments, can be seen here: https://github.com/triplefox/triad/blob/master/dev/com/ludam...

I didn't view bracketing as the enemy(which seems to be the focus of a lot of config syntaxes) but rather the combination of multiple types of bracketing, plus start-and-stop usage of shift keying. I only have two types of brackets, the sequence [ type and the long string {" type, and you can "feel" when you're writing a long string because of that sudden need to use the shift.
I just watched that movie last night and I really appreciated the explanation.
No way I know of. My proposed solution would be to have a newsreader that watches for you.
This presentation is from 2007. It's outdated and full of errors. I'll refer to the comments at /r/programming http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/193o4p/the_dark...
Everything is a "highly specialized domain"

So when I'm getting a house built, talking to friends is no use and forbidden, I should only talk to a builder?

If a house falls down I could be killed, that's way worse than being sued.

Sounds like nonsense, but why? Every day we do things that put our lives in non specialist hands but it's a legal issue suddenly "only ever talk to lawyers."

Yes advice must be taken lightly, especially on the internet. Experts have a time and a place. But living in fear can be worse.

I personally would prefer free internet advice than selling out and becoming part of the problem. That to me is a fate worse than being sued.

Others however might prefer a mix, they also might have more on the line than me. That's all good.

But don't let the fear take over and make you irrational. The worst thing with the patent wars is not the suing it's the fear it's creating.
It basically is the siesta model. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segmented_sleep
Blogging Won't Be Dead Soon
I see several major factors behind Y Combinator's success:

- to organize applications in classes that are solidly oversubscribed

This allows YC to select the cream of a batch of applicants rather than to have to judge each proposal at some point in time on its merits on an individual basis. Having a background against which to judge is a huge benefit.

- Hacker News

Having a place that is a breeding ground that already works before joining/applying gives another way to look at applicants and creates a way for applicants to join up.

After YC had run for a while a third ingredient came to represent an ever growing factor in the success, the YC alumni, as the article rightly points out. Like any network there are second order effects at work here, effectively YC has a very large multiple of the number of eyes, ears and brains compared to other entities.
To prepare people for what's coming in the next 5-10 years. If cities become panopticons overnight that would induce a greater degree of alarm and popular resistance to the idea. Introducing things gradually such that people become habituated is less likely to result in significant pushback.
A product I would buy in a heartbeat is a cross between an e-book reader and a paper book. I want a "book" with front & back covers, with a dozen e-ink "pages" in between. Each page would be able to display text on the front and the back. As I flip each physical page, the text is ready for reading. When I get to the last page in the stack, I would flip back to the first sheet for another 24 pages of text.

The advantage to this layout is that I can flip back and forth between several pages quickly like a paper book, but I have the light weight and capacity of an e-book reader. I assume it would cost more than a current Kindle, Kobo or Nook but I think the more familiar feel of a paper book would be worth the cost.