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I've used both, and prefer btrfs in terms of implementation. For some reason the use maintenance and control feels more Linux to me. ZFS feels more Unix, which makes sense given the lineage.

The raid arguments against btrfs are silly. Raid 5 is quite unnecessary, particularly with these kinds of file systems. I can only assume people making this argument have never maintained file systems of this type and clearly don't understand how to implement it correctly.

Both ZFS and btrfs are the future though. If admins aren't seriously considering one of the two for thier server infrastructure then they probably shouldn't be admins.
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That was the point I wanted to make. This HN comment page is full of "The cause is X" "Everyone agrees it's Y" "All I read is Z causing it!"

And I can't find any evidence of any of that.
Or to replace the bees (see "Bees Dying" currently on the HN front page) if/when they go extinct
I was under the impression that Ouya is running Android? So you'd write it in Java ideally. I may be wrong though.
and http://emacs-fu.blogspot.ru/
That's OK. We'll just import and breed needle snakes to eat the bees.
And the whole point of RAID is to combat that... But since there is no decent recovery tools for ZFS your entire FS might be toast if the wrong bits are turned.

Yes ZFS is quite resilient against corruption but when it bites, which has happened plenty of times in the past, you are truly screwed.

The philosophy behind ZFS and file system recovery has always been that it is too inconvenient. It is much better to restore from tape backups so why make any effort on recovery?

Thing is, most consumers don't have tape backups...

Because of that, ZFS is in the very vast majority of cases a bad choice for home users, especially under linux where it can hardly be considered mature.

BRTFS just isn't ready yet.

As a home user you can't even get a decent COW FS with decent snapshotting or checksums. That is the sad state we are in and will be in for many years to come.
Because "an image" is not the webfont you're actually interested in maybe?
I didn't receive mine yet but as a backer I was pretty disappointed to learn only yesterday (in their last email) that I have to put my CC on file to download demos. I know some people may not have a problem with that but even on my Apple Store account I can download free apps without a CC.

From their email:
"You'll need a credit/debit card to download games. All games are still free to try. Your card will only be charged if you buy content you love. We do want valid payment information for everyone. This is to ensure that game developers can get paid when you love their game."

The article mention gift card, but I just don't want to pay a gift card that I may not use just to download demos. Well I guess I'll use the hardware as a MAME box, and video player.
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Gee, seems like there's a lot of rabble rabble rabble going on here.

I have an inclination to disagree with the "No one knows why" part. I was given the firm impression way back in 2011(?) that colony collapse disorder was understood to be linked to neonicotinoid pesticides pretty firmly, albeit through a slightly byzantine mechanism.

Here's an article from early 2012 in wired:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/03/neonicotinoids-bee...

The long and short of it is:

1. Farmers grow CORN, and treat the corn with this class of relatively new pesticides.

2. The corn is used to create corn syrup.

3. The corn syrup, being produced on an industrial scale, retains trace amounts of the pesticides, given the slightly imperfect production processes, with loose tolerances that allow for impurities.

4. The corn syrup is fed to the bees, as part of a normal commercial practice, whereby the bees, being transported to unfamiliar territories need a familiar food source while they acclimate to their surroundings and locate reliable local sources of their normal food (flower nectar, etc, etc).

5. The corn farming is not organic, and the bee keeping is not organic. No one cares how the corn is grown because they're feeding it to bees, not humans. Bees don't read labels, and don't sue for damages.

6. Given that the contaminant is a pesticide, specifically designed to inflict death upon insects, bees are uniquely affected by even trace amounts of the toxin, in ways that humans are not. This is not unlike the unintended side-effect DDT has on ospreys.

7. The side-effect has been described loosely as "getting bees so 'drunk' that they get lost, and wander far away from the hive, aimlessly, and fail to return alive."

8. An individual bee inflicted with the trace quantities is capable of recovering to normal health, when the toxin is administered under direct observation, and can be reintroduced to the hive without noticable effects. So, while the dosage is not immediately lethal to the bee, when applied to many or all in a hive, the effect is disruptive to their cooperative behavior. This would explain why the populations dwindle over time, and the bees don't just drop dead.

That's my amateur understanding. Makes sense to me?

Here's another reasonable article:
http://www.ibtimes.com/bee-colony-collapse-disorder-linked-c...
It's funny how everybody posts their theories of why the benchmark is wrong (or done by the wrong person) and nobody actually tries out the code they think is better. So instead of guessing, let's implement that corrected version of the node.js application and run the benchmark again.

In my case, I admit, I don't have Windows ready to reproduce the result, but then I'm also not complaining about how the test was done, nor do I care about this at the current point.

If I ever have issues with performance of an application, then I will be doing the profiling and evaluating other options. I certainly wouldn't use some benchmark I'm too lazy to reproduce as a basis for selecting the technology to use. Instead, I use the tool I'm most comfortable with, I see the most advantages from or I just like best.

While the OP's benchmark might have been (and IMHO probably was) flawed, at least they provided source code and documentation for us to improve and re-run it. That's way more important than to know who they are and what their motivations might be.
Identity & Access management portal directly inside of you Google Apps account
So we've released a tool that allows you to federate to other SaaS apps directly from your enterprise Google Apps account.
Blog - http://www.secureauth.com/blog/cloud-based-sso-identity-provider-where-would-you-put-it/
PDF Solution Brief - https://download.gosecureauth.com/tech/docs/SecureAuth_IdP_GAE_SSO_Portal.pdf
I agree, unfortunately. I have seen code written to work around bugs in Mono and I just can't subject myself to that, personally. It seems crazy-making. And the Windows stack is just yuck, of course.
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I was pretty confused as to the goal of the site. I was convinced by the single example that this was some sort of talent search board with a weird name.

I'd suggest that you post a link to the home page [1] or the "How it Works" [2] page instead.

[1] http://gethushmoney.com/
[2] http://gethushmoney.com/how-it-works
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Bees are fed High Fructose Corn Syrup from corn treated with neonicotinoid pesticides and that low exposure, over time is killing hives:
http://stream.loe.org/images/120406/Lu%20final%20proof.pdf
Of course not. But those are the primary costs of launch. Coming to think of it, fuel costs are probably smaller than dev and personnel costs. Nonetheless, it'll be a magnitude smaller than current launch prices.
A typical series A round should allow startups to launch their own vehicles which is currently completely out of reach..
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in my experience the general sentiment is that the ORM is a leaky abstraction because it's common to make performance decisions based on the ORM's peculiarities.

up to a certain size, most ORMs will behave just fine! the bigger problem is when your mental model of how the ORM should be behaving for a certain data access pattern is thwarted by the actual implementation. This usually only happens when you notice a performance bottleneck around a semi-exotic query that you know to be trivial in sql or whatever.

it's also possible to put up performance abstractions between you and that ORM bottleneck, but often the experience and tradeoff sours most people. i don't blame them, but i agree that for most day-to-day cases, orms are pretty handy.
Put me in the camp of someone who has no idea on how to do any sort of handyman jobs, and I'm in my 40s. In fact, 3 months ago I bought a dartboard, and only have a vague idea on how hang it. I'm guessing my wall is drywall (?) and I imagine I'm supposed to drill holes and put those plastic screw-condoms (no idea what the name is) in there that expand into the drywall. But the thing stopping me is 1) I don't know if those screw-condom things are strong enough to hold up my dartboard, which is rather heavy and 2) I have no idea if I will be drilling into electrical wires. This weekend I was going to roll up my sleeves and Youtube videos and probably post on reddit for some advice.

It's sad, but I don't dwell over it, and it's not really a source of insecurity because quite frankly, none of my friends know how to do it either, otherwise I would have asked their help for it.
> One reason computer manufactures aren't liable is because a computer is an "open" system (so to speak) where a user can introduce all sorts of external variables that may affect it's performance/stability (viruses, malware etc).

That's not the legal reason (and manufacturers aren't any more liable on totally locked down platforms than on open ones). The legal reason is that we don't hold manufacturers liable for the ordinary dangerous of using their product (as opposed to the extra-ordinary dangers of using a defective product).

I'd imagine most collisions in driverless cars won't be from real design defects in the software, but rather from the simple fact that the real world is very complicated. If a driverless car is going around a blind turn and has spotty cell reception, or a deer jumps out in the middle of the road, or the road is wet, the algorithm could be doing everything right and still get into an accident. Again, driverless cars aren't magic.

I don't think there is any situation in where manufacturers are liable for something other than a major, reproducible, foreseeable defect in the software.

The question is, if the manufacturer isn't liable, who is? Sometimes life sucks and nobody is liable, but the law tends to avoid that. Hence my prediction that the liability will fall to drivers as it does today, on the theory that "you should expect that your 3,000 lb hunk of metal barreling along at 60 mph could hurt somebody."
I think that actually does sound right, if I remember correctly. So, to modify my question, does anyone have any good tutorials on creating games with Java for Android? I'm just starting to get the hang of making HTML5 games, but it would be nice to see how I could translate that to work for Android devices.
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If you're an astroturf / PR company, that's often exactly what you're aiming at if you want to deny something. Just muddy the waters.

I'm not saying this is the case here but I've seen it on other issues. It's an easy trap to fall into "we just don't know and there are different voices". In a functioning society, there's a clear channel from the science to the public, via the journalists.
Aging old men used to repair and beautify the cars of their youth. Guess what we do now. Interestingly enough, most of the vintage 8-bits have ethernet and TCP/IP now as well.
Thank you - that top comment by luu is right on the money
> As others have pointed out in the thread, there really is a feeling of accomplishment that comes from doing something yourself, but we seem to have conflated that to mean you should do everything yourself.

Yes, and it's not just about building things.

I feel guilty every other day about how much house should be cleaner. I could probably hire someone to come out once a month, do a much better job than I could, more quickly, at a price I can actually afford.... and yet I feel it's my responsibility and that I would be somehow negligent if I were to do that. Different cultures, man...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9Wachq3IQo is a good watch related to a good point / counterpoint.
Why does this site look like a knock-off of Svtle.com, more specifically dcurt.is?
Using git subtree to share code between Rails applications
ummm.. last I used "zpool scrub tank" used to do the trick. has that changed/unavailable for linux ?
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I'm sure being acquired by Ticketmaster is an exit all of these guys dream about.
There was a Georgia Tech spinoff that was commercializing something like this: http://www.hizook.com/blog/2012/11/14/robot-dragonfly-techje...
Seems similar to Sublime Text 2.

Except for the part where you're stuck trying to decipher existing Emacs Lisp. With Python I find I can express what I'm trying to do without too much thought.
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Not sure if thats better of worse than mine. This friend has some tools, but they're all terrible stuff that his parents and girlfriend have given him over the ways for Christmas and stuff. Screwdrivers where the handles turn on you, drill that is little more than a powered screwdriver, etc.

Last time I was at Frys I picked up a multimeter for him, told him it was a shame that he was an Electrical Engineer and didn't have one.

I just shake my head.
or make the offset dynamic, like following a Lissajous (sinusoid) curve, but only advance it slowly when the mouse moves, not when it's still. that way it seems all your mouse movements are simply inaccurate and it never goes quite where you want.
HAHAHA mission accomplished :)
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I'm more worried about, even today, men placing strict gender roles on me and the associated baggage than I am at women for "taking away my rights".

There are certainly strange expectations that guys have to deal with. The problem here is that they aren't challenging the norms because they're too "pussy" or "gay" and as far as I've seen, the MRAs are too wrapped up in their warm cloak of machismo and self-defeating. There are crazy women, as there are crazy men.

Systemically, guys are holding themselves back, and the way established law and custom are has more to do with irresponsible and/or overbearing guys in power in the past than it does some sort of gynocracy.
One could say it's not a case of "fortune". It's like throwing a rock into a crowd and being surprised if someone gets hurt badly.
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This is a great idea, but it's bad news for me if it picks p at the stadiums I go to. I am always one of those "seat pirates" and with the app, the situation for me will change for the worse: instead of getting cheap tickets and then switching to a $200+ seat for free, I would have to pay for this from now on.
Reiterating the GP's point, I don't see anything concrete about speed and stability. Let me throw in my 2e-2 USD. I've been running BTRFS on my laptop since Ubuntu 12.10 came out without any troubles. Installing Ubuntu on BTRFS was effortless and I even rigged up a script to do scheduled snapshots of my home directory (hourly, daily, etc.) and found this feature to be very handy a couple of times.
I gladly pay for quality media at a fair price.

Netflix, to me, is fairly priced. A cable subscription sure as hell is not. $15/month for a digital copy of the NYT? No thanks, the 99c/month for the first month I'd agree with. The NYT is a premium news outlet and blog, not a publication you get delivered to your door in hard-copy. I get AJE for free.

It's not that we're mooching, it's that the digitization of content removes most of the cost of its production and delivery.

Newspapers, movie studios, cable providers, etc. are all being disrupted, and refuse to realize that the value of their services has changed. Deal with it. Industries fluctuate. Please don't harm the customer because of it.
I was actually working on a Raspberry Pi (fantastic for having multiple SD cards configured to run different web frameworks) so PostgreSQL seemed like overkill. If I ever decided to put something I wrote into production I would definitely use PostgreSQL.
"let's implement that corrected version of the node.js application and run the benchmark again." - Do it. I'm curious. :)
Source: I'm a developer. :-|
"The (valid part of the) men's right movement is mostly concerned with men who:
* have been raped or faced domestic abuse, but are met with ridicule when filing charges
* have lost custody of their children to unstable / irresponsible mothers"

And attacking women for both of these is folly. That's why MRAs are not taken seriously, because they misdirect their (legitimate in the aformentioned context) concerns.
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People were really racist in the 1960's, to the point where they wanted blacks to not use the same restrooms. They didn't suddenly stop being racist when cities were legally desegregated. What happened consequently was what you would expect if a bunch of racists were stuck in cities with a bunch of black people who were no longer confined to their separate areas.
Like virmundi brought up, landowners are not the bottleneck in San Francisco - if anything they'd love to knock over that 3-story Victorian and put a huge apartment building in its place. After all, those 5 apartments in his existing building cannot possibly be worth as much as 30 brand new ones, no matter how stratospheric the rent gets.

The root cause of almost every San Franciscan problem is rampant NIMBYism. Look at a bus map on the city and notice how closely the stops are spaced together - you have buses that stop on literally every block due to local lobbying, and any attempt to remove some redundant stops to make things run faster elicits an incredible wail from local constituents for whom the only thing that matters is themselves.

Development is the same story. People moved to SF for the pretty Victorians they get to see when walking down the street, and any attempts to change this landscape, no matter how mindful of history, art, and architecture, is struck down to preserve the status quo (wherein the status quo is a sick, perverse emulation of the early 1900s).

San Francisco is the city where everyone is trying to squeeze through a very small door, while the people who just squeezed through are busy trying to slam the door shut behind themselves.
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For rather obvious reasons he's not likely to want to provide proof. Please stop asking for it.
Nope, it just needs to stop having wrecks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequester_(2013)
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Do you happen to know of any issues beyond what I encountered setting it up? It seems to work perfectly at the moment but I'd consider switching to a different DB if continuing with MySQL is going to cause me headaches later on.
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I know the popular assertions. Was hoping you had some actual research.
The question becomes who is the driver? A passenger is normally not liable in the event that a driver causes an accident currently. If your car is driving itself, then you're inherently not the driver, you're a passenger. Especially if driverless cars are allowed to be ridden in without needing to pay attention or assume manual control, which I believe is the end goal for this technology.

So if you want to hold drivers strictly liable for accidents, but the only person in the car is the passenger, then question still remains unanswered: who is liable?
I agree with you, I should have used "resident" instead of "land owner." The people that vote on the municipal boards, whoever they are.
Hummmm... Too optimistic. I think the driverless car thing is going to be hampered by rural living as well as the dependence on fossil fuel. Refueling is still a major limitation to this. I don't want my vehicle parking 5 miles away from my work using up more fuel at my expense. It sounds like a recipe for me hating cars in general.

This kind of thing would also give techno terrorists a very easy way to cause havoc on the masses... I think we would need to take cyber security quite a bit more serious before this could take place.
Attempts have been made to establish a common regulator or at least a common set of rules for national regulators, but have been strongly opposed by a few more and more marginalised member countries.
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My comment was more about the current situation, than the historical cause for sprawl or "white flight."
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... so THIS is where Apple tests our Apps
Looks like a space ship...
Cars shouldn't be allowed inside cities at all, for obvious reasons (air polution, noise polution, overall well-being of all citizens).

And secondly internal combustion engine is an inventian appropriate for 20th century, certainly not for the present age (because of its 20-25% efficiency, and when you take into account that that's engine efficiency, and the power output is actually used to accelerate several tons of metal, actual cargo is insignificant in most cases, you end up with 2-3% efficiency). This is really one proof of the incredible human stupidity.

I would like to see most European cities in the following two decades, as having a traffic made up of bikes and few smaller electric cars.

On the topic of driverless cars, it is solving the wrong problem. The advantage most of you mention is more time available for people. That's not really true in my view, because: when I'm in a car, I feel physical distress, some kind of motion sickness, and a great portion of the population has similar symptomes. This greatly reduces the amount of activities one can perform in a car.
And secondly, because we're talking about replacing cities (distances < 30km), the best solution is to replace cars with bikes, and you get the additional exercise that's missing from most people's lives, and you don't need to waste time in gyms, which are not as healthy, and don't result in as much endorphines/happiness (I don't have studies to cite for this).

And getting back to the topic of driverless cars. As a cyclist I would definitely feel safer around automated cars (but that's mostly because the place where I live is also inhabitated by many uncivilized drivers with no regard for other traffic participants, and no respect for the law, (Eastern Europe)). But then, the add efficiency of automated cars is quickly lost when you add cyclists and other vehicles to the equation.

The bottomline : wrong problem, very few benefits, except in places like Eastern Europe, where it can't/won't be implemented because of social and economical reasons.
Emacs? Really? xD Why not vi? (Then proceeds to spark a flamewar :3)
Always follow the money trail...
Check out MariaDB for an open source fork of MySQL. Oracle has handled MySQL extremely poorly since they acquired it from Sun.
You can't make penis jokes at work, and now you can't make penis jokes at the place you finagle yourself into getting yourself sent to so you don't have to work. When you spend most of your waking hours working, that severely curtails your ability to make penis jokes (or really, any sort of joke).

I have great sympathy for the feminist cause, I really do, but even in war there is diplomacy.