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The original author took a break from the web but it's now being maintained by a couple a loyal fans
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If you have a few spare minutes of time, I'd be really interested to hear more detail about this - what problems you faced, what you felt was unclear, and what you felt was complex. My email's in my profile if you'd be willing to discuss.

CSS frameworks should be speeding up development, not slowing them down so if there's something we can do to make them more accessible, we should find out what that is!
I think dictionary is a useful high-level analogy. Small key objects mapping to potentially large, and often structured, value objects. (By structure, I mean the definition in a dictionary often includes fields like pronunciation and origin.)
> If it was me, I'd reply with a certified letter explaining your situation as a developer, how much revenue the app has made to date in downloads and ads.

Then this whole exercise is patent troll phishing of app sales information from frightened developers.
It looks nice but it's hard to trust a web framework with such a jumbled home page. I know it has absolutely nothing to do with the backend abilities of PoW but if you want people to make websites with your technology you should probably set the example with a really cool website.

Sorry to be negative, I am not putting down the framework.
The best ebook I ever used: Wikipedia. Seriously.

"Searching" a textbook for the "good stuff" is a bug dressed up as a feature. With an ebook you get the ability to sift through cruft faster while still dealing with the cruft, paying the cost on par with a brand new book, and then not being able to dump the book on somebody else when you're done with it. Ebooks might be the future, but right now they're a serious ripoff and everybody in college knows it. Just follow the money.
"Remote workers must be judged on how much they produce, while office workers can show up for eight hours and that’s what the office manager remembers. "

Is that true in 2013? Are office workers in a tech company not judged by production?
One can say that he'd rather have a tiling window manager and an environment similar to the one he'll deploy in rather than dealing with various incompatible build systems and the strange mix of BSD environment presented in Mac OS X.

That is to say, all OS suck; and we should not compare dick sizes, as we would all lose.
As above in my reply to the parent, if you've got a few minutes available to discuss the troubles you had, I'd love to hear from you.
Another issue with e-(text)books is DRM. Users are often seriously limited in their ability to consume content in a way that fits their study styles the best. For example, a student might be quite comfortable with Evernote for taking notes, but the e-book's DRM might not allow copying passages, tables and/or images (or even linking to them). Even when there's no explicit DRM, PDF files are notoriously bad at integration with other software.

Usual solution: the printer becomes a DRM-circumvention device.
A dictionary maps words to their definitions. The words are the keys, the definitions are the values. Seems reasonable to me. Though as another predominantly pythoner, I do prefer map as well.
Well, the thing about OSX is that it is heavily reliant on in house media codecs and drivers that I find haven't been virtualized very successfully so far. Furthermore, I find that the (paid) virtual host desktop solutions on OSX are much better in terms of performance and integration than their windows counterparts - probably because of higher demand, possibly also because of architectural reasons.

But maybe you have found a way and you can then prove me wrong: Does iWorks work in your virtual box VM? Does XCode including iOS simulator work well? Is the performance acceptable? How about the iLive suit? How about unity development? How about the clipboard - does it keep its 'PDF snippet' functionality (no rasterization of fonts, original quality images)?

See, there's tons of OSX exclusive software that's quite demanding in terms of media and hardware acceleration, simply because of the OS's highly integrated character. Unless someone can show me a solid OSX-in-a-box I doubt that it's a good experience.
Are any of these good for RTS games? Or is the overhead too much compared to a modified A* path finder that only finds close to optimal paths?
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Well, what I meant is that fundamentally, Swedes are - or at least have been - very homogeneous, when compared to Americans. Even where people have labeled themselves with various extreme political affiliations, their way of thinking has been not too different from each other.

Some of my pronouncedly Atheist friends who have worked in Saudi Arabia have told about this. There, when you apply for visa/work permit, you have to state your religion in the application. There's no box to tick "Atheist" or "Agnostic". They ticked "Christian", and later said that this is where they realized how deeply they are products of Evangelic Protestant culture.

Gus Hall of course was born in Minnesota - he couldn't have stood as a presidential candidate unless he were born in the U.S. But he inherited his political affiliations from his parents, who came from Grand Duchy of Finland, where they were indeed too diverse to be palatable those days.
It does, and it's spectacular.
I made the switch from Ubuntu to Mac myself about 4 years ago. There isn't a single piece of software I run that runs better on Linux, even some apps that were designed on and for linux (ZSH and Vim, for example).

The only thing that might make me switch back at this point is the direction OS X is heading in. I'm still on 10.6.8 and I refuse to upgrade until they make an OS that's faster and less buggy than the one I'm running. Lion and Mountain Lion don't fit that bill. Also, there's no backwards compatibility for Apps. More and more apps are becoming 10.7 only, which may force me to make a decision sooner than I'd like.
Now that the technical criticism is out of the way, holy crap this guy is arrogant.

Tom's not being arrogant; he's just being irreverent.
I think the author's use case is actually quite rare these days. I personally don't dual boot any more, much preferring to run other OSes in a virtual machine. Then I don't care what filesystems they use internally, all shared data is shared via the VM's interface anyway.

I think that's the way of the future, not cross-platform filesystems.
Why is water still a Thing?

1. Cans. If you ever used an un-closable can, you can skip to #2.

2. I can't take water from bottle A to bottle B using my hands.

3. Obtuse composition. Seriously, just look at the recipe: H2O. Why is there OXYGEN IN THERE (yes I'm shouting)? We all know oxygen's a GAZ, right?

4. Milking the third-world countries. Guys, some countries are in DIRE NEED of water, and they are being CHARGED for a ridiculous price by their neighboring countries just for some water.

Years of frustration: I drink water and I pee half of its content. You'd think by now we'd have something that my whole body can consume instead of, you know, rejecting almost all of it twelve hours later.
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Imma let you finish but Google had the best doodles of all time. Of all time!
Our computer science department used to pay for printing lecture materials. This great service was discontinued this year thanks to budget cuts. The students are not amused to the extent that we are now setting up our own printing infrastructure to keep the books available. Fortunately they are available as PDF. Even though university is free, not everyone is able or willing to purchase an e reading device. During exams, electronic devices are not allowed, while some lecturers allow printed scripts or books to be used in exams.
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ArrivalStar has a profile on PlainSite that might be helpful:

http://www.plainsite.org/flashlight/index.html?id=2598991
If this has the ability to track a good fraction of people from home to work in a given metro area, this could be a boon for optimizing traffic/transit resources and urban planning in general. If I were a DoT, I'd want this.

W/re privacy. It's only a few years away from private companies having this tech available. So a bigger concern might be abuse of this information by an unregulated market.
I'm not sure if we should want to force a company culture on workers. And perhaps this idea of company culture doesn't fit these times anymore. People are much less inclined to stay within the same company for most of their lives anyway.

Personally I never cared too much for a company culture. I don't join a company because of a culture. I join it because the projects are interesting, the money is good, the benefits are nice, etc...

I do feel the approach Yahoo is taking is bad for the company. I'm sure for some work it's good to be at work in the company offices, but for some other work a home environment works much better. In most companies I've worked I always got bothered by other employees, making it much harder to concentrate on tasks. Since june last year I started working with a friend on our start-up and I thrive much better in this environment. Now I work from home and the silence and serenity helps me achieve much better results. I should note I have no wife or kids, just 2 cats, so very little distraction there.

A company like Yahoo should realise that some employees will deliver much better results when giving them more freedom. One example could be Bill Atkinson, who delivered great work for Apple, yet did most of his work at home:

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...
Your configuration file might need to be read by more than one language.

It's also nice to have a configuration file mean the same thing regardless of its runtime environment.
It depends very much on how well things are managed, down to the team level. If there's bad communication, or lack of action by the manager a serial under-performer could slide until it is annual review time, or worse.
PC-AT SoC
https://github.com/donnaware/ZBC---The-Zero-Board-Computer
I recall reading an article somewhere that said Pinterest's layout is working for them because women love the infinite scroll. Since their users are mostly female, that's probably another reason why it works for them.
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Right! So imagine how much slower it would be if the process involved getting the Linux community to agree with Microsoft on a standard. I realize it's not quite the bad old days anymore, but still.
makes parsing slightly easier. also '-.' might blur together so you would think it is just '-1234'
Nice comment, and nice article! Thanks.
Interesting point, but how does implementing a technology prevents others from doing the same? I would think if it needs to be regulated then new laws need to be written.
Previous ARGUS discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5129332
Maybe he plays performance demanding games in his spare time or wants full performance out of Windows only 3d tools and IDEs (Visual Studio)? Just a guess. Only reasons I would want to use Windows touching hardware versus a VM.

One can do GPU passthrough with Xen[1] if hardware allows, but that's a lot of footwork to set up and configure. Performance near native through from reports of those I know that have done it. Ubisoft gave a demonstration a while ago of Crysis running through Xen and GPU passthrough[2].

[1] http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/XenVGAPassthrough

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtmwnx-k2qg
I think that the author is correct to an extent. One thing that Pinterest has done is set a precedent for successful design thats predominantly visual (images, videos, media). This improved the standard of either glossy buttons or text in general. It made navigating content a much more engaging experience than it was before.

So while I do think that some websites are using the layout excessively or incorrectly (and some just straight up copy, like Pinchit) - there is a lot of value in the direction that Pinterest has chosen in displaying its content. It's one that has reflected a ripple effect in web design, as photographic and video content effectively grabs the user's attention on other platforms (ie. Facebook).

As always, the take-away is that we need design with purpose and must be evaluating its effects. Not arbitrarily hopping on trends just because.
> Face time at the office shouldn’t trump productivity or collaboration, but in this case, it seems like that’s happening.

I don't think that's happening. I think they're trying to use face time at the office to drive productivity & collaboration.
This is the 3rd or 4th article in the last few hours on this topic. Apparently the faux outrage is the latest bandwagon to jump on.

It's all a little tiring if you ask me.
Because files are "cross-platform".)
If you haven't seen it yet, HD Moore did a great presentation on
scanning at DerbyCon 2012. Video is avaiilable here:

http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=videos/derbycon2/1-1-2-hd...
My take away from this article, contrary to the conclusions of the author and "scholars" is _the software used must suck_. There is no reason the software can't be something you "boot" into and disallows the so-called distractions, if that is really an issue. There is no reason a e-book can't be just as easily marked up and bookmarked (with adequate "flare") for revisiting. Not to mention all the benefits of a digital book not compared in the article (eg. Search).

Paper textbooks permit students to have unlimited access to information at any time during a course as well as after the course ends. Laughable. I have no idea what hardware or software these students are being forced to use, but given statements such as these, it sounds like they are getting your typical DRM and failware cruft we've come to expect from our modern Bloatware OSes. Do these ebooks come with impossible-to-remove stickers around the screen too?
Study shows drone pilots are as prone to stress disorders as those in combat
I dislike TSA as much as the next casual traveller, but why are they such a bugbear for HN?
ya, I have posted that several times here but I keep getting shadow banned for some reason.
here is my implementation of Zet PC-XT SoC that I did like 4 years ago.
https://github.com/donnaware/ZBC---The-Zero-Board-Computer
use HDFS.
Investing in personalities instead of technologies + connections.
While I try to do this often. My macbook even has Win8 and Ubuntu as VMs on it. Running Xcode or Visual Studio in a VM can get pretty laggy, even when I give the guest OS a considerable chunk of my host resources.

I have an i7 920 and 16 gigs of ram, and I have about 50% to the guest, and Visual Studio and Xcode, along with simulators is pretty messy. Running a VM within a VM can do that.

Its the only reason I do a triple boot like this. Otherwise, I would definitely go pure VMs.

Though Parallels on my laptop does a bangup job with Visual Studio.

But then again, the main problem is huge files and lots of writes.
You can do this on a mac (Finder labels are stored in HFS+ metadata).
Not quite sure if you really want that: open your favorite shell, and count the number of files in your data directory; then multiply it by, say, 2 seconds each -would you like to spend that time on organization, or rather making money? (obviously you can apply the same label to multiple files, but you still need to figure out what belongs to where).

Personally, I gave up on manual organization of my file system last year, and learned how to love built-in search. This works great, as the rough index is in your head anyways, so you can just take a single token of the filename, type it in, and open it up; massively reducing both access time, and eliminating organization entirely.
Hey Tom, why not use git's config format?

http://git-scm.com/docs/git-config
The difficulty level is hardly extreme. It is not an unreasonable challenge to learn that writing an array of elements requires opening and closing brackets.
I'm trying to keep the Orwellian thoughts out of my head, but this skips a few steps of creepiness for me. Is this even deemed legal/illegal?
Better yet why is HN a plaform for this content ?
I'm afraid the genie is out of the bottle. ARGUS uses mobile phone sensors. Cameras are becoming almost "too cheap to meter", and too small to notice. Billions of people now walk around with mobile phone cameras, so chances are you're going to be recorded by someone in public, especially as cameras continue to evolve.

It may be some small consolation that consumer cameras are ground level, and decentralized, where as ARGUS is centralized and easier to regulate, but the way people are sharing more and more of their life stream, it's probably going to be possible for organizations that watch social networks to track people's movements.

I wonder if in some ways, this is a return to a kind of prehistoric small tribal life of everyone knowing where everyone is and what they are doing, and if anonymity and privacy of movement that we cherish is somewhat of a later invention at agriculture, and that modern technology is just increasing the size of our tribe.
I wouldn't trust any data I particularly cared about to exFAT. Its a non journaled file system with only a single FAT and free space bitmap in most implementations. i.e. its fairly easy to corrupt and very difficult to recover.
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Right! The Aspen stack was shut down. My mistake! I thought they were only offering Cedar.
Somewhere, in a small room in a larger building owned by a gigantic corporation, a SOAP programmer just felt validated.
I use a small console-only install of VirtualBox and use Samba to communicate back with Windows. I think I only have it using 1 cpu and 256 MB memory. I can easily run Autocad or Solidworks in the foreground.

I find that I only lose about 5% efficiency compared to booting up Linux and copying without overhead.
Although as a counterpoint, infinite scroll wasn't successful at Etsy and their audience is also primarily female:

http://danwin.com/2013/01/infinite-scroll-fail-etsy/
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"And third, for fuck’s sake, you are the Department of Homeland Security. What happens to me the next time I got through TSA at the airport, or try to cross the border into Canada? Do you think I may perhaps be on a “list” and have some difficulties?"

Nice FUD, bro. With what DHS has to do on a day to day basis, your fucking boat isn't making any impressions outside of one office's circle of employees.

If that office failed to serve for whatever reason, and you called them out then congrats on being a good citizen. But suggesting something as big as what you just did is more than a little fear mongering.

But yeah, sorry to hear about your bad day.
How is this different, or better, than the configuration format that git itself uses?
In a dictionary the value (meaning) is often (partially) implied by the key (word), by etymology etc. In the data structure there need be no relationship between the key and value other than the fact that they are a key-value pair in this instance. It introduces messy cultural concepts into what should be a clean, abstract concept.
I would compare laws to stifle innovation in this field as effective as laws attempting to prevent SW copyright violation, or as effective as laws aimed at proscribing what you may and may not do on the internet.

Aside from regulation, in this case the FAA could regulate this as their domain, I don't see why others could not. Anyhow, eventually this could improve such that it could be done from satellites. Since there is less regulation there (national and international) it could get a bit tricky.
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provide a network interface to them

If you're trying to use partitions off a single disk, implement this using minimal virtual machines. OSX in single-user mode and only the necessary kernel modules loaded, windows server core, suitably tiny linux. Not as good as native fs drivers (in particular, VMs are memory hogs), but cheaper than hardware and a lot faster than going through a cable.
As others have mentioned, the cost of standardizing file-systems across OSes does not seem worth it. But, is there any way to define a standard interface so that a filesystem driver written for 1 OS can be easily ported to another. Similar to how NVidia ships the same binary blob regardless of the OS. We even have ndisswrapper, which can run many Windows wireless drivers on Linux without modifying the binary.

We will obviously run into issues where different OSes have different concepts of what the filesystem needs to do (such as differing security models), but at the very least we should be able to get the common interfaces standardized.
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First smartphones, then google glass, now electronic tattoos. Neural implants are what, maybe 20 years off? Probably sooner for the military.
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I have a 5 year old and she's been playing around with a Raspberry Pi. Writing in leaf pad. Done a few Scratches. I connected it online and doesn't give the best browsing experience, basically unusable.

She's been playing around with iDevices since year dot, but I think she likes the keyboard. Been toying around buying a cheap Windows Laptop but Windows 8 is a little confusing and such and am thinking about a Chrome Book. Has anyone else had any experience?
This is my first time hearing about Minix, and the new architecture seems interesting. Are there any other linux distributions that use something similar to Minix's micro-kernel approach, or is this a bit of an oddity?
If you view it as a deadline item to tick off a list, is it really a relationship?
This brings back great memories of embedding guile into practically every piece of software I wrote from 1997 to 2000. At the time Guile sported a very simple-to-use embedding API and it was lovely to use Scheme for scripting my web server, for building the logic for Braitenberg vehicles, etc.
I still duel boot, because I still can't stand the overhead of VMs. However, the tasks I need to do on Windows don't overlap with Linux, so it is not a problem, and Linux support for NTFS seems to be good enough (otherwise I could still make a deticated share partition in FAT.)
Fascinating findings.

When it comes to studying and trying to retain information, I've found in my personal experience that greater "inefficiency" ironically leads to better retention i.e. the fact that I spend more time and effort taking physical pen-and-paper notes in a notebook causes me to dwell longer on the material I'm studying, thus increasing my retention and understanding. You could argue that today's technology makes it TOO easy to read material and take notes on it, causing you to spend less time on the material and decreasing retention.

And I think this finding is key:
The paper textbook helps them to avoid the distractions of being on the computer or the Internet, the temptations associated with checking e-mail, Facebook, or surfing the Web for unrelated information.

Perhaps giving out e-readers at schools used ONLY for e-textbooks would help e-textbooks catch on more. The same reason going to a library will help you study better than you would in your room, perhaps having a dedicated interface for class readings would help you to focus much more than having your e-textbook buried somewhere in your desktop/tablet/smartphone.