skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the most catastrophical failure modes of XFS was fixed in 2007 [0]. Or at least that's what is said. I never dared touch XFS again after losing a fs to it, so I can't really confirm what it looks like today.

[0] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux....
Antibiotic-resistant superbug arose in northern Manhattan
This article makes some fantastic points. I find it sad that we force ourselves to have outwardly facing purpose to almost everything we do. Even if purposeless walking has the internal reason of more thought and creativity, we can't do that because there seems to be an over arching need to have an outward requirement to all activity (complete a project, get more exercise, fulfil some need, etc).

This was driven home forceful to me in elementary school, quite a lot of years ago but it stuck with me. A friend of mine, who is now a very successful medical doctor and still quite close to me to this day, would walk around the yard with me at any recess. All recess, every day. Sometimes we would say nothing, sometimes we would have long discussions. My principal pulled us in after a number of months and said "your aimless walking is unproductive and will lead to problems, play a sport or find a game and stop it." We didn't listen, and so far we have been very productive in life, and haven't caused too many problems at all.
I have not used Codio (yet), but that is a bold claim.

Google's internal web based IDE is awesome, as is the Haskell FPComplete.com IDE. Good luck competing with these IDEs.

I have used Nitrous.io for Meteor.js, and it is also pretty good.
I enjoy walking around a park near my house, and I find I can have some great ideas usually. I disagree with the 'no soundtrack' suggestion; I have found that listening to music does not stop the ideas from flowing. I also enjoy listening to Mixergy interviews while walking around this same park, Often if the interview is especially interesting, I end up extending my walk so that I don't miss any of it.

And then, at the end of the walk, I come back to reality and the peacefulness comes to an end, replaced with kids, business, other distractions. For a while though, I am in my own little world wandering around.

I usually try to bring a pen and paper with me to write ideas down, I find that typing the ideas into my phone is not as satisfying somehow.
Your user directory is a browsing root, along with "Computer" and "Favorites" and "Network". From whatever root you pick, it will always show the entire path if there is enough space. If you browse to the same folder from C it will show "> Computer > C > Users > sp322 > Downloads > foo"

So that's just some multiple mount point weirdness, not removing the path.
Elon's response to that tweet was more than a little bit epic:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/461279062837968897

followed by:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/461283368693669888

Not sure what Rogozin thought about them apples, but this sure isn't boring!
The Intel AES instructions help a lot. According to Wikipedia we use 3.5 cycles/byte. That gives us 128*3.5/3 = 149 ms. If the write speed is around 500mb/a as another potter stated, then the disk encryption is probably not a bottleneck. Still, it is better to actually measure the performance without encryption to see if there is any effect.
He's one of the Russians targeted by US and EU for the activities of Russia in the Ukraine. Basically you can't do business with him or send him money.
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Independent of the job offer, it can make life more difficult for any non-programmer who you might interact with professionally. Why force them to meet on your terms? Sometimes you don't feel the loss because you don't see it.

Again - this is just respectful disagreement. I appreciate the discussion.
Discussing this article on HN is weird. Most people here miss the point which is "most users do weird incomprehensible things, and Google will tweak Chrome to be useful to most people, not to the tiny number of technologically competant users".

Most people barely know what an URL is.

See also the time Google removed the + operator from search. Hardly anyone used that operator, and it was used incorrectly most of the time.

It's a shame that Google do not release their test data but it's obvious that they have a huge amount of user clicking and typing that they can analyse.
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Your code is always one new feature request away from needing "just a little more" from your front end. Before you know it, your nice and simple JS has to keep a lot more state than you anticipated. jQuery helps, but I eventually realized that it just helps write apps which do aspect-oriented programming on the DOM — and that is completely unsustainable for any but the most trivial app.

Angular has been a breath of fresh air in comparison. It significantly reduces complexity. It's also easy to add to an existing project, even one with server-side templates. At this point, however, I consider the use of jQuery and server templates an antipattern at worst, and a necessary evil for some types of performance optimizations at best.
I don't know if this is cultural, but I don't understand this kind of marketing. It's like those signs in some restaurants, e.g. "the best cappuccino in town" or "the world's best burger"...

It makes me instantly skeptical :)
That looks pretty neat. I changed our keyed door lock to a combination lock, and that has been very convenient. This would be even more so.
We recently moved to Softlayer due to availability issues with Azure. Has anyone experienced any significant Softlayer issues that impact availability?
Please disable autoplay on that video. Some of us have heavily-capped internet connections and can't afford to have an HD video buffer in the background.
Note this earlier thread here today that also had a number of jobs posted to it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7679114
Is this common in whatever country you're in? If this happened where I went to school, there'd be words at the PTA meeting. Your principal is some kind of control freak.

It doesn't sound normal at all.
I agree completely on the type system. When first starting with it, I was thinking "wow this is great, I don't have to worry about types and things just work". But then weird things start to happen, and you realize it's due to strange type issues that are sometimes harder than they should be to track down. And then half your code ends up being something like as.numeric(as.character(as.vector(xyz)))
Nope, that one's taken by a new app that's disrupting the fishmonger industry.
Webdriver Torso YouTube mystery clips' French connection
> One of the bright spots is that it seems hard for bacteria to evolve more than one resistance

Not sure where you got that impression. There are bacteria out there that are basically resistant to every antibiotic we have. The article even gave an example of a case where someone died because of this.

> There are modern techniques to avoid resistance issues.

Yes, true, and it is right that we should implement these techniques. However, until the whole world plays along there are going to be problems. If sub-clinical or too frequent doses of antibiotics are given somewhere in the world, then antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria will develop, and can be transmitted across borders.
OpenSSH No Longer Has To Depend On OpenSSL (make OPENSSL=no)
Even in the city, walking without purpose can be done. During an unemployment spell in the 2008 meltdown, I did a lot of very long (2+ hour) walks with limited destinations in mind other than "Far North" or "Far South". I did them without soundtracks or texting. They gave me a much bigger appreciation for the city. Beauty doesn't just exist in the woods.
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All the training in needfinding, and exploring the problem and solution sound very similar to how business school classes work to me.

And I would guess that those skills are all very valuable, but aren't enough on their own. Lots of the hardest and most important problems and needs to solve in our world are in fields that require deep domain knowledge.

It feels like because so many startup founders don't have the patience to go into a field and acquire that domain knowledge everyone is focused on problems that yuppies have that can be solved by looking at a screen.
Who's an example of someone you believe is a great communicator?
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No, this isn't true at all. If you don't have the physical disk geometry problem, you shouldn't be using XTS. In fact, the whole article is about exactly this point.

In particular: you do not need XTS to get "fast random read and write access".

Taylor's a smart guy. I'm pretty sure he's wrong about this (although maybe he knows something applicable about EncFS that I don't know). If I thought that there was no way any smart person could make the mistake of applying XTS somewhere it didn't belong, there'd be no point to writing the article. :)
It takes a lot of discipline to keep something like that under wraps until the exact right time to bring it out.
And here an article on the slow death of the purposeless browsing http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/opinion/sunday/the-death-o...
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Anyone know which video chat API they're using?
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I think its important to note with the perf test and download size stuff that the frameworks that are bigger/slower to render provide more functionality and more templating options respectively. Thats not to say they're better, but just trying to clarify the tradeoffs under discussion.
I think that a better way to do it would be to make the domain bold and the rest of the URL lighter.
Add to a Mailchimp list using Gibbon in Ruby
Did you just propose running a KDF for every sector of the disk? Which of these numerous "fast KDFs" that derive related keys from master keys are you referring to?
> MS's moves in the office365 space, I was gobsmacked by what they're up to these days.

Such as?
Does anyone have a copy of the complaint?
I preordered the CDs a few weeks ago. Looking forward to the stickers and maybe some surprise :-)
My friend Robin Harris wrote the original article.

A little off topic, but it seems really strange to me that Amazon is not transparent on the technology. Because of the high charge for fast reads, I tend to believe that the underlying storage is some form of media that gets mounted, perhaps like Facebook's bluray archival system.
I've been following Julia for a while now, not really using it, but playing with it a bit and keeping up with it. I think it's very promising and I really look forward to seeing it fledged out more.

It's a very small nitpick, but I wish Julia had a postfix function application syntax. It would be nice to be able to say `foo = 'hello'.reverse` and have it be syntactic sugar for `foo = reverse(hello)`. Or some other operator since `.` is in use. This reads nicer for long function chains, and especially when a function modifies its argument, it's nice to have that argument come first, which gives an OO-impression. E.g. for me this:

app = make_app(options)
app.route("/", _ -> "hello, world!"),
app.route("/submit", POST, req -> "hello, $(req.params["name"])!")
app.start(3000)

than this:

app = make_app(options)
route(app, "/", _ -> "hello, world!"),
route(app, "/submit", POST, req -> "hello, $(req.params["name"])!")
start(app, 3000)
It's not that VS running in IE, but VS compiler use IE to pull stuff from internet, if my understanding is right. MS is never going to be that awesome.
Thanks for noticing. We are going to fix some of these mistakes.
> A user of the entertainment, social networking and news website Reddit, RandomDKguy, posted a screenshot of American tanks invading an area of Copenhagen, complete with a number of Stars and Stripes flying, under the title ‘Americans are going amok in the Denmark map in Minecraft’.

It could be much worse, some arsehole might decide to build branches of Macdonalds' all over the place.
The Disconnect Between Twitter and Wall Street
Seconded on the eye protection. Also, drill slow (without too much pressure) and drill a pilot hole so you stay centered.

There are special plexiglass drills, those make life a bit easier, a glass bit works as well (even better, actually).
Only from the sharp edges of my current keyboard, and the fact the keys are a little squished.
Unfortunately, antibiotic resistance isn't that sort of threat. It's orders of magnitude greater.
Cities are wonderful places for aimless walking! When I travel to a new city, my favorite thing to do is to leave 2-3 days at the beginning completely unplanned and just walk out the door of my room and start walking.

On a recent visit to SF, I was waiting for a friend to finish with work. He invited me to stay and hang out at his company cafeteria. When I declined, saying I'd rather go wandering, he and his friends looked at me like I was some kind of partially deranged maniac. I had a great time!
Perhaps Golden Gate Park, the waterfront by Embarcadero or the Presidio.
Not All Customers Are Created Equal
11-inch Macbook Air versus the Surface Pro 2: Which is best for you?
I think Chrome for other platforms will print to PDF conveniently too.
But not much better than china on those parameters?

(Having lived in both India, and the USA, I think I do know)
Snapchat has always been more about the one-to-one messaging. Yes you can do one-to-many, but it still gives a more personal feel than a many-to-many group message. You had to click on that person to send it to them, you actively thought about them no matter how instantaneously.

I use Snapchat for both very close friends and acquaintances too, I can send both inside jokes or just a simple hello to someone I haven't spoken to in a while. I don't feel an obligation to respond to snapchats and don't feel ignored when someone doesn't respond to mine, how I would via text, or facebook messenger.

I personally never use facebook messenger. I've had it turned off for a couple of years now and only use it on the rare occasion that a friend changed phone numbers (friends moving abroad mostly) and even that is just to get their new number so I can use whatsapp or text messaging. As for whatsapp I strictly use it for large, on going, group messages or friends in other countries. But I guess everyone has their own use-cases.
> I theorize that Ember's lack of a single corporate backer is what has enabled its incredible community to flourish.

I can see that point, I think that strengthens Ember's position in my view.
The "just mmap" pattern has also got portability issues if you might move the data file between systems which could have different endianness, pointer size, alignment requirements, etc. (Serialization done properly avoids this because you can swap to a consistent host-independent on-the-wire representation as part of the process.) This is also less of an issue for the cases you suggest where you can regenerate the data from a primary source -- you can just treat the host-dependent data file as a cache that can be blown away if moving to a different machine.
Are you gonna hire devs in Europe? Visa process is such a pain and chances are around 33%
I too am intrigued by julia based off of my brief interactions with it. My only issue is the lack of namespaces. Is there a good reason why they aren't included?
For those who have succeeded, is boxing the right mindset?

I find that boxing is the right mindset for low-thought sales. "I'm going to keep fighting until I hit my quota of 10 gym membership sales for the week."

For collaborative discussions, I find the Judo or Jiu Jitsu mindset more appropriate. If you push, I won't push back, I will pull you in the same direction. If you pull, I won't pull back, I will move my momentum in the same direction.

In more practical terms, it doesn't treat comments like objections, it treats them as suggestions. "Have I thought about market X? Oh yes, it's a very interesting market. Here is what we thought...."
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