skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We use btrfs in production on thousands of nodes, and we make use of advanced features (nested snapshots, seed device snapshots, etc.) It has performed admirably so far, with only one problem attributable to btrfs itself (seed device incompatibility with device pools, seen in 3.2.0).

It may not have RAID 5/6, or time-proven stability, but it kicks ass and over time it will kick ZFS's ass not on technical grounds, but simply because ZFS has too much baggage and not enough community support.
the bartering origins of trade and money (debt) is a fallacy, according to david graeber, an anthropologist that wrote a book on the history of human economics. it's also what they teach in every econ class so it has widespread status as a myth:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_First_5000_Years
Revenue vs. Income
Filesystem encryption is very handy for a notebook computer (I use it, myself), but in a datacenter it's value is a bit more questionable.

Where do you store your encryption keys? If they're on a removable USB device (for example), you'd have to contact the datacenter personnel to plug them in in the event you had to reboot (which happens from time to time if you perform OS SRU uprades). If the USB device is left in the server and someone gains privileged access to the machine, they've got the key as well as the data. If the USB device is not in the server and someone gains privileged access to the machine, they still have access to the data.

The only time disk encryption is valuable is when the machine is off or the disks are being transported.
Just a little bit of thought should answer this for you.

Hint: How would a sting or other undercover operation work? Do the police lie during interrogations?
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+ 1 , i explicitly list ALL THE STACK i'm going to use and make the clients sign the list.
Got an Acer Homeserver on eBay for $100. Installed Ubuntu server 12.10 on a USB drive, picked up 4 2TB Seagate drive on black friday for $80 each. Have 3 in Raidz and one as a hotspare.
This acts as my Time machine server, torrent box and media server.
Running Plex on it, but Plex insists on transcoding everything, which the Atom isn't really powerful enough for.
Assuming you meant this to me? See my other comment about architectures. What you're describing sounds like Macintosh with PowerPC; was it ever an advantage? Maybe, but then it became a liability, and they switched. It hasn't exactly gone bad.

I'm sure there will be growing pains, but users will place such a high premium on systems that work together that it will have to happen at a software level even if there's differing technology under the hood.
> But if you're going to stand here and imply that Bitcoin is a superior store of value to the US dollar, well I cannot abide that sort of nonsense, sir. Not one bit.

The cool thing about bitcoin is that it doesn't matter if you abide by it or not. It doesn't matter what some politicians decide. It doesn't matter who wins the arguments. It doesn't matter who has the guns.

All that matters is the bits. As long as information can be exchanged, then bitcoin will stand, and people will use it as both money and a store of value.

It is actually happening, and there is nothing your arguments can do to stop it.
In NYC becoming an undercover activist for the purpose of spying on lawful activities is illegal, as it should be, because of the Handshu agreement: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handschu_agreement
This is sweet. No one has ever done this before. Microgravity environments support tons (pun) of research opportunities (pharma, material science)
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When I was a sophomore or junior in college, a friend and I drove the roughly 8 hours from central Indiana to New Brunswick for a show. A hardcore band we dug was playing their last show ever and we were like fuck it. Had an address and started east. Got into town and went looking for the venue. Was a little nervous we had the wrong address when somewhere along Hamilton St., there stood a house. All in all, one of the coolest shows I've ever been to. The show was in the basement and my friend, who is quite tall, actually had to duck in a few places to move around. The house threw a kegger afterwards that we hung around at for a little bit, talked to the band and generally had a good time. Some very drunk punk guy showed up who was promptly ejected (physically) from the house onto the street. Super cool and I certainly won't forget it.
I do agree about debian, and were I to care about a long term installations I would probably go with that (or freebsd, depending on my needs). But again, I don't think that debian has the user friendliness that ubuntu does, in fact I can't think of any other distribution that works as well (that's not an ubuntu derivative itself).

If you are interested, my typical use case is spinning up a vm for about 5-10 hours of total work while I port my code to linux, and ubuntu is simply the fastest way to do that without snapshotting a clean install (which I really should do).
I used emacs every day for 2 years. Then I switched to Sublime Text.
For just one example of how this presentation is
misleading, gold has never really been selected by free
markets as a currency.

"Never"? Quite the opposite. Gold was seized by Roosevelt with Executive Order 6102 to prevent people from using gold as a currency. Nixon pulled the dollar off the gold standard in 1971 as the US Treasury didn't have enough gold to finance the war in Vietnam, and he feared a run on the banks. On both those occasions, people wanted to get into gold, but the government prevented them from doing so. And today physical gold has been bought by millions of people as a hedge against the world financial crisis.

On these occasions and more people would use gold as a currency if they weren't prevented by law (= men with guns) from doing so; this is the opposite of the claim that "gold has never really been selected by free markets".

imperial governments with big war machines minted gold
and silver coins, paid soldiers and military contractors
with them, and then required the coins back from the
general population in payment of taxes. This fostered
markets to service the war machine.

Speaking of counterfactual claims, the war machine is actually powered by printing money. The reason Nixon got the US off the gold standard was to print money to finance the Vietnam War. Every major war in the US (Civil War, WW1, WW2) has involved increases in US debt, inflation, and printing of money to facilitate the massive/rapid seizures of wealth that governments use to fight and win wars.
I disagree not with your argument, but the assumption that your argument makes.

We've recently seen the Learn to Code phenomenon, but HN has also had articles "Don't Learn to Code, Learn to Build" and "Don't Learn to Code, Learn to Farm". With the expectation that the majority of Americans drive cars regularly, there is no reason that the majority should have no experience diagnosing issues or doing basic maintenance. Similarly with shop or electronics, we deal with physical objects all of the time, basic craftsmanship should not be seen as a relegation to the not college bound. The same with basic circuits, most all have phones and computers nowadays; a screen replacement, or just knowing how badly your screen is broken should not be something you just give up on. Emergency preparedness is another example, it benefits society if it's not just scouts, jrotc, and ETs that know how to treat people for shock.

Don't make vocational tracks, but realize that to be educated people should understand at least some of the concepts of the things that they use in every day life.
> even though the USD is not experiencing hyperinflation and never has since the introduction of the Federal Reserve system.

The USD stayed long-term stable before 1913. It lost 98% of its value since then. Say what you want about short-term economic shocks in the 19th century or the 98% statistic being a deliberately biased framing of exponential decay, but the idea that the USD has not seen hyperinflation "since" the Federal Reserve is highly misleading.

> Why historical examples of hyperinflation are relevant to the gradual devaluation of the US dollar is never explained.

"Why historical examples of people not wearing seatbelts dying in car accidents are relevant to my choice of not wearing a seatbelt is never explained." Same argument.

Also, saying "this hasn't happened yet so it won't" is a highly specious argument to make. Events that are worse than anything that ever happened before them are actually quite common in history - namely, the 1918 Spanish Flu outbreak, World War I, World War II, the Great Depression, Chernobyl, etc. Given the general trend of an increasingly complex, and hence fragile, society over the past ten thousand years, disasters of increasing and unprecedented scale are the rational thing to expect.
It's a problem with web apps vs apps in general. If I have an app on my laptop/tablet/phone and a new version comes out I don't have to download it if I don't like what I read about in the reviews. But with a web app I am at their mercy, forced to adapt to their every whim.
> There are some things that markets seem to do a worse job at than governments, and as a citizen with access to clean drinking water, I am perfectly comfortable with that compromise.

You seem to be implying that clean drinking water is something that governments can do a better job at than markets. Was that your intention, and if so, do you have evidence to support the claim?
In 2001, minimum wage was $5.15/hr. 5.15 * 40 * 52 = 10712 for a full-time minimum wage job if you work every week.

In 1990, with $3.80 minimum wage, that would have been 7904. I think your calculations are wrong.
One reason to run Emacs in tmux is if you work on remote machines over, e.g. ssh. Emacs in tmux (or screen) lets you detach, log out then log back in and re-attach to the remote session with Emacs still running. That's amazingly handy.
Incorrect. HDMI is a standard for transmitting uncompressed video, same as DVI. Raster goes in one end and out the other. AirPlay, on the other hand, does encode frames that need to be uncompressed by a renderer.
I can understand why you would care about what language it is. But there's nothing wrong with charging more to work in a language you dislike; you just have to be upfront about that.
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>I never really got why people found pointers to be complicated. I suck at writing C code, but pointers are something I understood pretty easily. It in the name really, it's something that points to (the location of) something else.

That's the easy part. Not many people (if any) struggle to understand that. It's all the consequences of that, and they way it interplays with various C features, that get people confused.
If you find answers that easy, then you are asking the wrong questions. Every time I have asked a question on the internet about programming, it has never been answered and I had to figure it out myself. Nobody will be answering the real tough questions about programming on the internet.

I agree that the easy basic questions are all over the internet but once you get beyond fundamentals the answers are hard to find with that method.
Why shouldn't they be asked to prove that their chemicals will do no harm?

Because neither science nor logic in general work that way.
Post a link to your github repository in the appropriate programming subreddit for your language. Make sure that your posting declares that your code solves problem X better than anyone else. Sign off with "and I defy you to find better code in $language anywhere!".

This will result in dozens of helpful strangers posting detailed critiques of your coding style, logic, work flow and parentage. Ignore the invective and look for the ones that post code snippets; if a post with a code snippet says you're doing it wrong, figure out if that is truly a better way of doing things; if so, adopt it.
Hidden fields aren't a problem in Django. Can you provide a code sample demonstrating your issues?
a highly liquid store of value that cannot easily be controlled by a central authority gold already does that, but governments or markets pick one.

It's pretty hard to run a stable empire when economic exchange breaks down. Currency's break down as society breaks down not the other way around because currency's value is propped up by the need to pay taxes or loans in that currency. Country's that try to spend more than they take in in taxes or loans devalue there currency other than that there surprisingly stable.

Do you believe more in your government The US government is increadably well run when compared to just about every government throughout history. While it's politically useful to suggest otherwise there is a reason per capita GDP is so high and our well run government is a large part of that. Now that's not to knock bitcoins but your comparing it to something with a 99.99+% chance of being around next year and that's a tough act to follow when a single bug could kill bitcoin in a few seconds. Granted the odds are much worse 20 years out, but you get time to move currency around in most failure modes, were again bitcoins can hit zero with Zero warning or just lose 90% of it's value with a mid sized sell off.
> Unpaid ones are reported sometimes, but not overdue ones.

What is this distinction?
Building a realtime application with Rails
Also note that neo4j requires a license to run in high-availability/multi-server mode.
you are looking for Meta: exclude = ('field1', 'field2', )

displaying a field as hidden doesn't make it uneditable.
> Let me remind you young whippersnappers what looking for knowledge was like before the Internet

What, like, teenagers? Because practically everyone 25 or older, arguably everyone older than 20, knows what it was like to search for information without the web.
There's no 'i' in Timocyl, at least not where you think!
Well, I am not a Big Data guy, so I don't know if it's "real" enough in terms of capabilities or maturity, but when looking for a graph database to mess around with, I came across OrientDB, which also uses the Apache license. Clearly it's not built for the same use cases or scale as Titan but it seems to have some case studies and commercial support. I haven't played with it yet, so I suppose the project could be an elaborate hoax.

http://www.orientdb.org/
Site is: Being hosted on aforementioned TI-99/4A
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That, and using pointers with memory management (which in Java is GC and transparent to you), and the confusing syntax p++ vs (p)++ etc.
That depends entirely on the law being infringed. Society could do with a lot fewer of them as a whole.
I'm struggling to understand what you ar saying here to the point where I wonder if you've missed the biggest factor for the Ouya which is this.

It's that it's part of a (potentially and to a degree actually) huge Android ecosystem with the same games running on phones, tablets, consoles, Smart TVs, media centers, mini-PCs and netbooks.

Doesn't that change things?
The biggest problem with manual memory management is when doing software in large teams.

Suddenly you have distributed knowledge across team members with various skill levels and producing memory leaks is very easy.

Nowadays automatic memory management in the form of GC or reference counting is the way to go.
"You are correct that it is not designed to be a stable store of value. Gold shares a similar problem. Price stability is probably not going to be one of Bitcoin's strong suits, for sure. It's primary role might be simply as a highly liquid store of value that cannot easily be controlled by a central authority, which is still incredibly profound."

This I think the fundamental problem with the Bitcoin movement in a nutshell. Once you get past the grandiose claims, the fact that Bitcoin is inadequate as a store of value reduces it to an instantaneous transfer means only. But think through the implications of that. Its volatility makes it inappropriate for any transactions which are not instantaneous. Your rent will not be denominated in Bitcoin. Neither will your salary. No loans will be denominated in Bitcoin. Equity arrangements for companies, purchasing contracts, your savings accounts, none will use Bitcoin due to the volatility. So the Bitcoin economy is still dependent on traditional currencies, which means all of these purported benefits of avoiding currency debasement and the like simply don't exist!
Its not Cyprus to blame for EU's decision to write off the Greek debt about a year ago. Cyprus economy and banking system went from healthy to sinking boat overnight because of that decision of the eurogroup which it didn't have control over. Now the eurogroup came back to penalize Cyprus for not having that money that eurogroup itself took away.
I'm obviously just too used to the interface! I do have an issue with the fact that adding a book to your "to-read" list is the default, and gets a huge button of its own on every page, but, yes, I guess if you're not used to the concept that the whole thing revolves around putting books on virtual shelves, then it's not necessarily obvious that you click the little "books on a shelf" icon to put it on your "Read" shelf, or the "Currently Reading" shelf, etc.
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In a world of alternative currencies, is deflation of one such a bad thing?

I think that the salient issue with Bitcoin is that it is going to deflationary at a set time and while people may hoard it, its divisibility 1/(10^8) should allow it to be used for exchange for a very long time.

I'm eager to see what happens. As far as I know, this is an unprecedented experiment in absolute scarcity psychology. Real Estate is still being developed, gold and other precious metals can be mined, but past a point, Bitcoin won't be. Imagine the economies around irreplaceable fine art along with divisibility. My suspicion is that Bitcoin has been given sociological imprinteur as a store of value, and it is hard for that to be erased entirely. In curious whether later virtual currencies can compete in a way which devalues Bitcoin.
It's still, quietly, the best place for what it does. Much like a lot of Yahoo.
And the Dart VM gains more and more support for server side programming.
This is one of the larger, emerging problems with social media. Interested groups can create large amounts of dummy accounts to manipulate the group discussion. This is already happening on a large scale on reddit.

What we need is machine learning systems to help us identify the astroturfers who run dummy accounts to influence the group discussion.

The question is, who is going to build it?
One of the projects I had to sign an NDA, so unfortunately I can't tell you. I know, I know, stealth is stupid, but it wasn't my choice. The other project is a web application to help Property Managers find tenants for their vacant units and also help tenants find property to rent, I know it has been done before, but the client has a few ideas for features that he hasn't seen others do.

As for the competition, it has http://www.startuppack.org it was more of a drawing than anything, but I had to submit my application via their API. I won quite a bit of cool stuff and will utilize most of it, but some I won't. I'm just happy to have won, I've never won anything big like that before.
What, exactly, is "happening"? I'm all for bitcoin, and I think it would be kind of a cool form of currency. Bitcoin is more elegant than standard currency, but many of the interactions that happen with standard currency are not possible with bitcoin.

Right now, the value of bitcoin is in the increase of price in bitcoin. I assume that's what you mean by "happening". That doesn't mean anything. Store owners, starting with online store owners, have to at least start accepting the currency, which they have shown no signs of doing. So again what, exactly, is "happening"?
On Android, this site does make you want to scream at your screen.
The top replies to this thread illustrate your point perfectly, imo

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4389691
This isn't new. Depending on the town, time of day(or night), and whether you take money, house shows are often illegal. Not entirely unreasonable, if you think of it from the perspective of the neighbors.

Of course, kids should always be trying to throw them, and cops and narcs should always be trying to shut them down. It's the natural order of the world:)
Your arguments seriously ignore and misstate what the Federal Reserve actually does.

1. The Fed/govt does not simply deposit money "in the accounts of banks." Under TARP and quantitative easing, the Treasury purchased securities or shares from the banks. Under quantitative easing, the Fed purchased Treasury securities and mortgage-backed securities from the banks. Yes, the Fed printed the money to buy those securities, but it't not like they just printed the money and gave the banks free money.

2. Overnight loans are almost irrelevant to your point because they're overnight. They have to be paid back within 24 hours. The $9 trillion dollar figure sounds impressive but that's just the value of all the overnight loans added up. If you make $8.2 billion in loans every day for 3 years (with the 8.2 billion paid back the next day and then another 8.2 billion loaned out again), you get $9 trillion.
How is your RAiD set up? Mine is just RAID 0, because that's what philg said to use. Hadn't thought of Acer
Nothing special. He put his resume on job boards and started getting calls from recruiters. He looked at jobs offered found some he liked, applied to some, and one of those hired him.

I'm not looking right now but I check craigslist from time to time and there are more iOS jobs now than 12-18 months ago when I was looking.
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Not sure about your disagreement here - are you saying that credit is more fundamental than barter? Money as an improved replacement for barter is hardly controversial. Credit is a third layer on top of money, which only comes into play when there are actual goods to be traded.

It's not controversial -- it's wholly wrong. Credit did not come after money, credit came before money. The IOU was the first form of credit and became the first form of money.

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/08/what-is-debt-%E2%80%9...
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Wow, thanks for the great responses!

I will definitely head up to the public library near the civic center and checkout the POPOS guide.. great information :)

As for the hackerdojo, I already plan on heading there but wont be down that way for a couple of weaks yet..
> It's more disheartening that this is what the police are spending their time doing. There seriously isn't anything more important they could be working on?

You can use the same argument when you see a police officer working burglary instead of homicide, or homicide instead of rape, or vice-versa.

The police, like the military, is a tool used to implement the policy of others; in this case, the policy is chosen by the jurisdiction's legislature, which is composed of people chosen by that jurisdiction's population. The police can (and should) prioritize which policy they implement most avidly, but if some things are going entirely undone that's something that needs to be handled at the legislative level, possibly by repealing or modifying the laws the police are charged with implementing.
I agree with much of what the OP talked about but there are a few things that I 100% disagree with. For example: "Burn the boats behind you". Absolutely the worst advice I have ever heard. I have hopped around from agency to agency and have good relations with them all and I do sometimes call on those relationships for business reasons. DO NOT BURN YOUR BOATS OR BRIDGES!