skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1 add additional
features when using ReFS, including alternate data
streams [...]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReFS (bottom) and http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831724.aspx

ReFS features are still evolving and like NTFS is designed to be extendable (as has happened with NTFS).

It is of course NTFS that was involved in all the history of WinNT, Cairo and WinFS and still is the major FS. (I just mentioned ReFS for completeness)

Neither NTFS ADS nor Apple'S Resource fork and HFS+ ADS are something new: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS#Alternate_data_streams_.28..., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_(file_system)#Apple and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_fork

And neither the Explorer shell nor OSX Finder expose it as GUI - what a shame.

dotNet API's lags behind WinAPI, so dotNet/PowerShell just catches up a bit - nothing special.

Windows 9 will be interesting indeed. But I have my doubts... given that Win Vista had the advanced search dialog in Explorer shell. The newer Win 7 had no such dialog and generally the whole metadata idea was buried away in the slightly changed UI (removed list-group bar, changed metadata bar, folder doesn't remember state, custom added columns not saved, etc.) Even the great "Photo gallery" application has a optional download as part of their LIVE apps and Media player hides the playlist with its star-rating by default, etc. I don't comment Win 8.x.
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Yes. This. Ouya + XMBC is amazing.

While modern $99 "video pucks" like AppleTV, Roku, or Amazon are good streaming clients for NetFlix, etc, they utterly suck at playing files from a local network. Ouya + XMBC is an incredibly option for this use case, now that Boxee is gone.
Realistically, what's the best kind of support he should be seeking right now?

His linkedin profile doesn't say or at least I couldn't see his job profile. I would imagine it is going to be hard for him to get a job as a coder (with his reputation and all).
Even if he does manage to raise $1600, that only helps him extend his current situation until next month.

He said he's been living in some sort of isoloation ("platonic hermit monk") for the past decade. Maybe a job in a different field may help him give a different perspective from the one he's had for the past decade?

What does one do if they become homeless in the Bay Area?
How is there no mention of Wayne's World in these comments?
Great question. We'll be in touch with our lawyer.
Well one thing he is doing is soliciting donation for his Emacs Tutorial, which he provides for free on his website. I don't think that is begging, and think it is entirely appropriate.

You won't care about that if you didn't read his Emacs Tutorial. But if you did, consider donating.
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But you are assuming there exists a positive correlation between absence of brown M&M:s and whether the other demands are also filled or not. I don't think you can show that since the M&M demand was singled out. Had they instead randomly inspected once piece of equipment and found an error that would have been totally different.
Nope, I've carefully looked at MIT's history of grade inflation (the info is online), and there's been none except for a "'60s" period that coincides with the draft, a widespread phenomena of the time. Heck, since I attended in the '80s, they've reduced the pass-fail period from your entire freshman year to just your first term.

What's happening is that MIT very carefully matches its student body to the demands it places on them, something that's worked out well since the post-Sputnik reforms in K-12 science and math education (for more historical perspective, when it started, post-Civil War, a large fraction of students would only be mastering the calculus at the end). There's many levels of oversight including the "outsiders" in Visiting Committees, feedback in the system, etc.

And MIT really cares about undergraduate education (which I gather is all too rare except at "low end" higher education where the school has no pretenses about doing a lot of serious research; one of my chemistry TA came from such a school). All classes are taught by tenured or tenure track professors, with exceptions that prove the rule such as SF author Joe Haldeman, and professors don't get tenure unless they're adequate at teaching.

I once witnessed the EECS department head make a professor read every student evaluation (i.e. students providing feedback) for a course he'd just taught, all but one of which were negative (and the positive one was a special case), and at the end told him he'd never again be allowed to teach that particular course. Etc. etc.

ADDED: MIT tries very hard to be a meritocracy, and since it's focus is on "you can't fool Mother Nature" engineering and science, that's practical.

Semi-disclaimer: I have a lot of ties and history with the EECS department, but being an EECS major is not one of them, I was science track.
The OpenStreetMap vector data for Calgary is about 6.2MB-20MB, depending on the format.
Yes, and no. Viewed as a Lisp, it trades some simplicity for practicality, e.g. vectors rather than lists as the container for arguments to a function. Neither than `lambda` template for Common Lisp's `defun` macro or the "usage" template for Scheme's `define` are consistent with the overall language syntax because the list should be quoted or executed.

On the other hand, viewed as a DSL for the JVM implemented as a Java library or as an evolutionary step in Lisp, Clojure's syntax makes a lot more sense.

Summing over a collection is a one liner in Clojure (as in many other languages):

=> (reduce + (range 10))
45

Clojure's dynamic typing trades simplicity of syntax for the static typing safety harness required in ML or Haskell.
It depends what kind of students you want to get. A lot of start ups can make that same argument and pay for the top quality talent (with more than a few thousand dollars).

What I would look at is teaming up with universities and professors and see if you can get students to work in teams on a non-profit project for school credit (possibly as capstone projects?). It allows you to side-step the whole salary and competing with internships thing, and gives students a chance to get real world experience during the school year. Of course that creates the new problem of finding a progressive enough university to sponsor that kind of program, but it's an interesting avenue to explore.
Yeah, but it's two pepsis. Then I think a single large one becomes more economical. Less bottle too. And I can return the large bottle but not the small ones.
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Xah,It really sounds like you need a bitcoin address. Coinbase.com (YC S12) is a great place to start. Once you have some coins, you will find no shortage of people in the bay area willing to buy them off of you.

I would even be willing to run a btc fundraiser on your behalf. I don't have a lot of rep on here, but it's pretty solid in the bitcoin space. Google Jason King Bitcoin or Sean's Outpost

Best of luck, man. Stay strong.
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Screenshot shortcuts are my favorite:

Cmd+Shift+3 = Capture the entire screen

Cmd+Shift+4 = Capture a selection with the mouse

Cmd+Shift+4 -> Space Bar -> Move cursor and click on window = Capture the selected window

By default it will save these to an image on the desktop. By holding down the Control key it will copy it to the clipboard.
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That's a tough one, then. I'm not from the US so I don't know what IRS really is, but I think I know of analogous institutions here... In which case, he needs to clearly explain that people can get in trouble for helping him.
It seems like a lock should be able to autorelease in a distributed environment if the acquirer is no longer available. Would this not be considered "safe?"

What about broadcasting acquire/release messages?
Because I've found his emacs info useful many times, and because I'd rather not see or filter ads, I bought the tutorial.
Yes, a few good points were buried in that post, like "examples are good" and "re.M isn't, strictly speaking, a variable". In the past I've made corrections based on Lee's suggestions, but when good points are surrounded by arrogance and profanity, it's not surprising people stop listening.
Their gamble was also time-based. This shift was imminent. No such thing is nearly as critical today. You can be edging into such a play, but having all the stars align - being in the right place with the right amount of capital leverage, and sitting at the precipice of an actionable event happens maybe once every 10-20 years.

You can be right about the problem, but being able to enter and exit a market to benefit from such prescience requires a lot of timing. If the wreck is slow motion, you can lost most of the utility of your insight by transaction fees, interest, and the contrarian, emotional whims of the market you play in. It's better to have other peoples' money at your disposal. Hedge fund managers are in a great spot.
I'm curious to hear more about the 'reality distortion field'. You say 60-80% of people failed to use the tool - what was the basis for continuing on? Did you have a plan to mitigate the visits to other sites? When was the next time you tested and what were the results?
All day I've been wondering when this or something like this would make it to HN.
There's going to be polarization now - left wing or "secular" (believe me that is an overused term here in India) and so called liberals versus an opinionated group of people who believe in the Modi form of government and leadership.
Not only is this not a good topic for HN - it is about as bad as saying "Pro big-government Obama wins" or "Right wing Conservatives take Britain by storm!" or "Abbott defeats the Labour Party!" or "Merkel gains at the expense of leftists!" or any other such article.
Bottom line is: you can not be sure of what Modi or any other politician for that matter will do until he/she does it. Until today, we didn't even know he'd get such a landslide.
As for the technological impact of Modi's win - he loves solar & infrastructure(so go long solar & infra stocks) and it is probable that the internet penetration in India will increase - although whether that is credited to him/his party or not is a matter of debate.
This entire election is about a nationalist Indian party that has defeated a clutch of leftist parties (similar to other nationalist movements in many other nations) and there isn't a leftist versus nationalist debate in the world that deserves attention on HN.

For the record, I supported Modi's party in this election, so I maybe biased. Take with a pinch of salt.

EDIT: removed my comment about this not required on HN as in hindsight it seemed unimportant to me.
From his complaints:

"Fuck the mother fucking coders in the IT industry."

Looks like he received the very thing he wished on others.

"i don't have friends because i live like platonic monk hermit for last decade"

This guy clearly needs some people skills.
> Progress comes from monopoly, not competition.

> ... competition destroys profits for individuals, companies, and society as a whole.

Profits != progress.
"... competition destroys profits for ... society as a whole."

What is meant by "profits"?

"Progress comes from monopoly..."

What is meant by "progress"?

Does the Antitrust Division at the DOJ do Book Reviews?

I would enjoy reading their review of this one.
I've been having a lot of success with the Chromecast lately. The more I think about it, the less I want an intelligent TV or yet another device (which needs updates and config) and controller (which needs its batteries replaced and fished out of the couch cushions) attached to it. A dumb receiver like the Chromecast seems to be the superior solution. I have no shortage of smart devices, I don't need another. I just need an easy wireless way to get whats on my smart devices onto my dumb TV.

Hard to beat at $35, or $29 at Best Buy right now due to a sale. That's practically sales tax on the AppleTV plus the more or less required AppleCare.
Interesting that you mention this. I'm currently 'donating' my time to two non-profits as a strategy mentor. I'm helping them in a similar way a start-up mentor would help a start-up (they're new enterprises).

Both of them need tech talent and are struggling. Would love to discuss this with you further.
Dave Jones' video blog is fantastic. I love it.

We can handle a mixture of videos and images in our guides. Any video files selected during guide creation are uploaded directly to a user's youtube account via oauth, without leaving our site.

None on our team are great at video editing, so we haven't emphasized that capability of the site. There are a few videos in this guide to give an idea of how it could work (as a potential alternative to singular lengthy videos):

https://www.takeitapart.com/guide/40
A technical book is a good idea once this guy has his feet on the ground. It seems up his alley, would provide a small advance and beef up his resume.
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Man, I have the song that came with R5 "5038" (BeOS backwards) in my iTunes and listen to it much more than I probably should, longing for the good old days. I fell in love on an old AMD1000 tower and it's never gone away. I spend nights up pondering what the world would be like today if Apple had bought Be rather than NeXT per thr original plan. Ah the nostalgia.

Update: Here is the song for anyone interested:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlOi-L-N0X4
You can't know how the world would look if Google didn't have a monopoly, but instead there would be more competition. For example, advertising would plausibly cost less, which would mean that a million companies would have less expenses, and therefore more money to invest.
My PS3 is kept up-to-date and despite this my typical experience launching a game I haven't played in a while or installing a new game is 30m-2h of patching with comically uninformative progress bars.

I don't know if the XBox 360 would have the same problem if I bothered to hook it up to the internet. Frequently installing a new game requires a lengthy patch to the OS, but I don't get over-the-air updates so overall my XBox 360 experience is better.
Just to clarify F-Script is suitable only for debugging Mac apps. Super Debugger looks really cool for iOS.

Also, F-Script doesn't leverage lldb. The use of lldb in the example here was just that you can use lldb to attach to and load a library (bundle) into an arbitrary app process.
Is his resume really skimpy? I thought it was rather good, but I have no reference points on what is and what isn't considered good enough.
See also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3103
Pyramid is a more likely candidate.
I think that being able to "fling your screen" like Chromecast or Airplay is a future I'd like.
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In the 90's, he was the biggest troll on comp.lang.lisp. I actually found some of his stuff funny. It wasn't like it was hard to tell he was trolling. It was performance art, IMO. I often wonder, though, what strange person was behind it. Now I know, sadly.
> What I've described is intricately intertwined with piracy, and piracy is a major problem which DRM seeks to disincentivize. Just because it can be broken, so what? Banks get robbed in spite of having security, does that mean security is therefore a waste of time and they should just let everyone wander in and out of the vault? What a stupid argument.

You said it's economics, yet your comparison doesn't make any sense economically. Banks analogy is not similar at all. The fact that DRM can be broken makes it completely irrelevant because of the nature of the digital space. Once it's broken, duplicates of DRM-free pirated material are shared ever since. Purpose defeated. As Cory Doctorow often points out, one of the core mistakes of DRM proponents is trying to measure the realities of the digital world applying the physical world logic.

Anyway, I thought we already agreed above that DRM is not used for the purposes of preventing piracy. So why are you going back to it?

> Are you going to put up money to buy territorial rights for content which the publisher is going to give away DRM-free? Of course not

You still didn't explain why. DRM has no effect on piracy. Content with DRM which the publisher A agreed to sell through distributor B will be pirated the moment it will appear from B. So, why can't that agreement involve DRM-free content? The result (piracy wise) won't be worse.

> there's a high risk that you'd never recoup your investment.

How is that risk high when there is no DRM, and low when there is one? I don't see any connection between DRM and risk. It's like saying that sailing on a ship with broken lifeboat which is beyond repair has less risk than sailing on a ship without one. Risks are the same because the lifeboat is irrelevant (in our case that's DRM).

> All those markets are different, which is why distributors exist in the first place; they know their local markets better than any individual studio or producer can, and they have the cash flow to write a check based on the budget and the quality of the cast attached to the project.

That's fine, but again, what does it have to do with requiring DRM? With all your attempts to explain why publishers or distributors might require DRM, you still didn't provide any sensible reason for the root cause of requiring it so far. I get the reason of "We need DRM because the other side requires it", even though it's a bad justification. But I'm asking about the root. I.e. who requires it first. Publisher? Distributor? We already agreed that it's not because of piracy. So why can't they drop DRM from all this then?
The proposed algorithm provides a safety guarantee which is time bound: once the lock is acquired it has a specified validity time, after this time, it is possible for another client to reacquire it.

In practical terms this forces you to have the protected code path to be "real time", which is, guaranteed to terminate (or to abort) without the specified time.
I found this article very informative for an outsider:

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21600106-he-will-proba...

I'm not advocating the conclusions or opinions in the article (I simply don't know enough, and I know this article was controversial too), but it's an interesting read.
I usually only have time to check the most upvoted submissions and only clicked the link by accident. I think it’s useful to have an understanding of how OS kernels carry out fundamental tasks such as scheduling and memory management. It’s a very good introduction to the subject of scheduling but I’d need to brush up on my C to get the full benefit of the article.
My take-away from this article was that if every OUYA shipped with a $10-$25 gift card or starting account balance, people would get into it a lot easier, and not box it up after a week.

Most consoles ship with full games. If the OUYA is only shipping with free trials, they aren't really competing.

Side-note, the home page of their website, what are they thinking? It looks like a stop sign. Or a "come back later". I literally went to their site earlier this year and thought it wasn't live yet, didn't bother going any further - until today. Shoot, it might as be one of those giant red circles with a line through it saying "go away!"
There are a handful of private services for which the market is both cornered by a handful of participants and a necessity to modern life. Opting out of those is about as easy as opting out of laws, both of which require a form of essentially going off grid or on the lam.

Also, it is important to realize that the consolidation of data by businesses is exactly what makes it so easy for government to show up and say "I'll have some of what he's having."

Businesses leverage their power over people to get at data they otherwise wouldn't like to share.

Governments leverage their power over businesses to get at data they otherwise wouldn't like to share.

You can argue that the power in question is different, and that's an important piece of the conversation to have. But overstating that facet becomes a smokescreen for an "it's OK for me to do, but don't do it to me" argument.
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> Please flag this off the front page - there are other more deserving stories.

I should learn not to upvote comments before I read them to the end. Oh well...

Anyhow, this election result isn't fascinating to me because he is or isn't right-wing/nationalistic/pro-business/whatever, it's interesting because it represents a very strong change of direction in the government. It looks like people were very dissatisfied with the ruling party/coalition, which is similar to what has been happening in some EU countries after the crisis (Hungary, Slovenia, Greece, ... - in some of these countries, like apparently in India, it was the Nationalist parties that gained most). To pull this off in a country with a billion people is even more fascinating. But at least democracy is working in the East, if not in the West (e.g. US).
Maybe a more interesting question is whether they ever exercised their right to terminate for brown M&M's.

Is there any notion of material breach, major vs minor breach, etc. in "tour contracts"?
Sad.

A couple of months ago at the Go London User Group a young guy came up to me and told me he didn't have a degree, was totally self taught, and wanted to know if it was even worth him applying to CloudFlare.

I told him to apply.

He started last Monday.

I can only speak for CloudFlare, but educational background is _a component_ of a candidate. But it's only _a component_, it's not everything. We're interested in what people know and what they can do. I honestly look more at people's personalities, employment history and Github than what college degree they have.
Roku paired with Plex works extremely well (thanks to Plex). Plex reminds me of VLC in how well it does exactly what I want it to do. I'm a fan.

https://plex.tv/
I wouldn't supply anything other than Pepsi for fear of needing to know the history and practices of the local company that makes the soda I thought would be a fun surprise for rms.
This reminds me how the string %English% transferred via SMS crashed some old Siemens phones and GSM modules because of error in detection of embedded images.

And how recently string سمَـَّوُوُحخ ̷̴̐خ ̷̴̐خ ̷̴̐خ امارتيخ ̷̴̐خ could crash some versions of iOS and OS X.
He is known as annoying Usenet troll by many. I don't classify him as pure troll, however. He don't troll for the sake of trolling and he can be helpful. He is very opinionated and argumentative and don't adjust his thinking very well.

He might have mood disorder.
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