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| We should think more out of the box. BeOS BFS, (ReiserFS4) and early versions of NTFS supported extensive object oriented metadata and search capabilities ("Cairo") - something like WinFS but directly in the filesystem driver. Data could be organized like in relational databases today, you could find your data in various ways. Not just in the old and proven way of hierarchical directory tree.

The second you open that up to application layers, you are facing a wide range of problems. Specifically:

* Common schema: each application considers itself a unique snowflake, and might want to use different columns to mean different sort of things. We've been here before -semantic web, RDF, etc- and the correct solution was letting the apps just manage their own database of stuff.

* Selfish apps: There is nothing stopping apps from overwriting, or manipulating meta-info in ways that are detrimental to user experience. Consider the current case of "Set <x> as default browser", "Set <x> as default media player" at each launch, then multiply it across every schema column

* Interop: Beos attempted to solve this by dumping meta-info into the archives. The problem is, when a file gets outside the original system/OS, these attributes will get truncated. Any workaround on this would require full agreement on changing all of the file transfer protocols, and storage methods on all OS.

Also note, that the 90% of the case (localizing files instantly on multi-terabyte consumer-drives) is handled already via Windows Search & Finder. Personal experience on this shows, that you can safely drop the hierarchical madness in favor of filename-based search for most media/music/document cases; and there are ways you can apply this for development as well.
I don't think so :), we're not that important. So far only 3 comments have been seriously downvoted -- one of them presented seemingly unfounded information, the other one was simply unfunny trolling that should not be on HN, the third one was mostly off-topic.

Because of - to some extent understandable - reasons MS hate is still quite strong among this community but destroying an MS-related thread is unnecessary.
I hadn't seen that - that's interesting. Thanks.
I am not certain I understand the problem with "me too-ism". Hacker News is a discussion forum: if I go into the comments on a post, what I am expecting to find is more information about the topic written by other people... if someone links to a related project or an article with more detail, I don't see how that's a problem.

In this case, I am actually featured prominently in this article--it isn't just that I know a lot about iOS or about Swift, but as the second half of this article and arguably the whole reason it was written was to show how to use Substrate (something I wrote) with Swift, I think it would be difficult to claim anything I say on the matter is "me too"--but even if it were someone totally random, I don't see why it should ever be considered a bad thing to direct people to more information :(.

(FWIW, I actually don't consider this article entirely correct: the information here implies that the symbols are available for all functions, and that was not my experience while on stage disassembling the WWDC app. I think I may need to parse the embedded Swift modules and provide new APIs for developers to look up methods out of the vtable, but before I go too crazy with that I am interested to see where the Swift-provided Swift.reflect ends up going.)
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> If, on the other hand, you act like a computer geek and use zero based indexing, then you get these numbers: 6, 27, 13598, 43611, 24643510

Heh, it says "act like a computer geek" and the numbers are not even in binary? :)
I've thought about this over the years, and if I could
experience another guy's life/job for a day; It always
comes down to Hugh Heffner--when he was younger, before AIDS.
> Depends what you mean by ‘structure’

If you want to be specific, then I mean where wood is kept under significant tension load.

So I guess woodhenge doesn't count since that's compression load. (Only tension load actually stresses the wood fibers in a way that's comparable with the product discussed in the article.)
But speech and singing are quite different? I don't know, but I'm a little surprised if the vocaloid engines(?) wouldn't be easier to "tune" to Spanish than to English. Also, while "Chinese" (Cantonese or Mandarin) are quite complicated (especially considering the fact that they are(?) old languages) -- I'm not sure if they're particularly complicated from the point of view of emulating singing?
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New devtools are much improved however would it be possible to remove the dotted lines whilst inspecting an element (toggled option would be fine), just seems to get in the way of things.
Looks like Google and Bing don't have the only translation APIs anymore
What are the legal consequences for Microsoft if the US government succeeds in forcing them to bring this data over from Ireland? Won't Microsoft then be in breach of Irish law? What does a company do if forced to choose between breaking one of two legal instructions? Perhaps they can just choose?

Alternatively, the Irish Microsoft corporation could decide to prevent the US corporation from having access. It could be argued that they are legally required to do this. Then the US corporation can say they no longer have access. It doesn't matter that the US corporation is the only / majority shareholder because the shareholders cannot compel the company officers to do something illegal (i.e. provide access).
A serious flaw of this site is the pre-selection of what's "good" and what isn't. People's beliefs aren't that uniform. It's very possible that a value that's positive to the author would be negative to a user or visa-versa.

Every filter should have both "exclude" and "prefer".
So because the accused are in the middle of a drug case, that makes this okay?
I've suspected for a while that the NSA has some kind of software like google alerts that monitors the top 1000 relevant sites and detects when they are being talked about so they can turn the discussion. We know from Snowden leaks that they are attempting to influence public opinion online, so that seems like how I would do it. Also I've noticed that previous threads like this are particularly full of naysayers.
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she is also paralegal?
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Do you really think a site has to be "important" to be targeted? To influence public opinion it seems like you'd just want to blanket influence as many popular websites as possible. It wouldn't take that large a team to do it given the right software.
More info: http://www.skyboximaging.com/blog/skybox-imaging-google

The satellite streams live video, like in Enemy of the State (1998 movie), impressive: http://vimeo.com/92251790 and http://vimeo.com/92072374
I am in fact a statistician. I work in statistics, mathematics, and computer science. I am often severely frustrated by the oversimplifying and misleading natures of conventional charts.

I have seen good charts. Yes, they exist, and I actually see them quite often. It just so happens that the vast majority of charts and graphical illustrations I see are omitting details at best and dangerously misleading at worst.
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I assume the parent is referring to this:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Prism_sli...
"Refactoring" refactored functionally
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Suppose the people working in the US are required to tell the people in Ireland to give over the data, and the people in Ireland are required to refuse. Maybe they'd just have to have a really long argument on the phone until the court got tired of it.
They promised it at WWDC when they announced 10.5, but silently scraped the feature before release.
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Why not just port to the Reddit codebase? The functionality seems similar.
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And yes, if someone did commit a crime using my network the police might visit, but what better defense is there than the fact that I have an open wireless network? If I enabled wireless security on my network and someone hacked it, I would have a far harder time proving my innocence.

In Germany this defense wouldn't really help you much. You're (partially) responsible for the crimes that are committed over your unsecured network. It's called "Mitstörerhaftung".
I saw your previous "Ask" float by the /newest queue, but I'm at a loss
for any way to help you find an answer, save for giving you an up-vote.
Worse yet, my grasp of Spanish is pitiful and I know nothing about
Catalan, so I can't even reliably search for an answer.

Can you think of any native language sites or IRC channels where you
could ask this question?
I guess the US government will force the US based part of Microsoft to cooperate. No choice, possible in stealth. This might or might not be discovered by the Irish part/government, which must then sue.

Basically there is no winning for Microsoft, except keeping it secret, having the US government pressure the Irish not to sue, or having the NSA pay possible fines.
> If you check out these hyperrealists (they don't say photo 'cause that's a bad word) you can sometimes catch them with a laptop, image on it squared off, sometimes even zoomed in.

How is that different from a painter looking at a live model or doing a self portrait with a mirror?
Your opinion doesn't matter I thought they made that clear.
No it makes it OK because everything is in the open.

When you're in a middle of a drug case it's pretty normal that they read your emails.

It's not normal that they read secretly my emails when they have nothing against me.
As someone who works at Typeform, it's AWESOME to see people using our product to make MVPs like this.

Best of luck, it's an interesting concept. (And one I could have done with a few years back).
that really should be a bash script, not a python one.
When in Rome...

Dealing with the institutions in a country where you have no knowledge of how things are done and where who you know is as important (or even more so) as what the law says means you have to be vigilant from day one.

The biggest error in this case was that they did alright on the 'trust' bit but they failed the 'verify' bit right from day one.

If there had never been so much room for maneuvering in the first place then this would have likely never happened. It's sad but in situations like this you're setting yourself up for long term trouble if you do not actively seek to control things right from day one.

I have a couple of cases quite comparable to this one in my immediate surroundings and some of it sounds eerily familiar.

The OP is in good company, big corporations fall for things like this and usually it costs a lot more than it did here. Chalk it up to your educational fund.

If anybody is in a position to attempt to replicate this experiment you may want to do the following:

- incorporate through a lawyers office and if local law requires a resident or national as a director make sure they are accountable

- prepare to go there when incorporating and get yourself educated with respect to the local situation (corruption, graft, how foreign companies usually get plucked)

- be prepared to spend a lot of time in the target country from the moment that you incorporate

- get your ducks in a row, don't put the responsibility of doing that in the hands of someone at arms length.

- if you want to keep things simple do not create a subsidiary, instead aid someone else in creating a company and hire them for a service they provide. This makes departures so much easier to deal with. It removes all of the responsibility from your end but you keep control at the level of the customer. Not happy? Then deal with someone else.

- spread the responsibilities over several people, make sure they check up on each other and report to you.

- trust but verify, repeatedly, continuously

This is not meant as a 'Philippine people can't be trusted' line, or even a 'foreigners can't be trusted' one. The sad fact is that if you, a rich western company lands to do business unprepared in a foreign country you are simply a very fat goose waiting to be plucked. So you need to be aware of that and act accordingly.

As these lessons come this one was remarkably cheap.

I've had something similar happen and I wished I could take my own advice above retroactively, my lesson was a lot more expensive than the one detailed here:

http://jacquesmattheij.com/stick-to-what-you-know-a-tale-of-...
This particular part of the surveillance is what really hurts the bottom line.
"Watson’s budget, if the rumors I heard are true (and I knew a couple of people on the Jeopardy team so I didn’t doubt them) IBM spent north of $1 Billion to win that game. Marketing and Research shared the cost."

(I don't have a point here, I just like quoting "Marketing and Research shared the cost." - seems to be the first time such words were published on the net ;-)
Don't run the binary directly, that path will change when the GM ships. Use:

xcrun swift
> There's more to food than nutrition. The process of growing, preparing, and eating food has been a major source of social connection and "quality time," which is in my opinion the most significant value of slow food for well-being.

Have you ever been involved in the process of growing food? A workday on the farm is substantially longer than any office job, the only way to talk to people is to scream because they're at least thirty meters away from you most of the time. At the end of it you're drained and people who have been doing it all their lives get to live the last years of their lives with terrible back pains and having to rely on the young folks for, um, growing food, because it turns out doing manual labour for twelve hours a day isn't so easy when you're eighty. There's anything but quality time in that.

Edit: It also turns out that, with foodstuffs having to be so cheap, this kind of work was also very badly paid, which meant that except for people who owned huge amounts of land (and generally didn't work all, or more commonly any of it), people who had to do this were, if not dirt poor, in any case poor enough not to be able to afford too much. It's the fact that we lost all this chance to have "quality time" that allows us to heartily debate such matters through silicon stuff that shoves charge carriers through really thin glass tubes.
You do realise that Vermeer predates the patenting of the camera lucida by a hundred years? 1807 vs 1675, respectively.
I wasn't criticising. I just noticed from the changelog for this release in particular was pretty close to "changed whitespace in code"
Very cool - I bet psychologists would also love this, pupil dilation is a pretty good quantitative for mental effort IIRC, and with this set-up you can really control the circumstances.

How hard/easy was it to get that image processing working in Halide?
Well mine isn't within the first 50 million. In any case, what's the relevance of this? Everything (with the correct encoding scheme) can be expressed somewhere in the decimal expansion of Pi.
Netflix are paying to have the data delivered to the door of TWC (to TWC's router at the correct TWC regional point for the customer requesting the data). TWC is limiting the incoming rate and not delivering the data to their paying customers. Netflix cannot provide diversity within TWC's network and it shouldn't really matter what port the data show up on.

Peering is a special deal for huge ISPs already. If you are small/medium size you will have to pay Level3/Cogent etc. for them to deliver data to you. Now the big players without competitors are pushing to alter the terms so the internet so that they get paid by both ends. And if companies give in the incentive for the ISPs is to worsen performance so more people have to pay for decent performance.
Perhaps of interest -- a musical produced with a hacked version of Festival (text-to-speech) singing all the parts:

http://www.morashon.com
You should have anticipated this. It's the nature of "the cloud" that you have no control over how the service is functioning.

That's exactly why I host webapps myself and generally prefer standalone applications over web based ones.
Maybe it's time to stop causing amnesia along with unconsciousness. They do that to keep people from having traumatic memories in case they wake up, but it's starting to seem like it causes more harm than good.

See: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/22/nightmares-after-th...
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Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this.

I think you're right - we got off relatively cheap here. Much more than that and we likely would have just shut down the Philippines corp and would have run it from the US side.

We ended up having our ducks in a row on all later hires, but we were SO early with her that things were messy from the start. (As they often are) We should have cleaned up that paperwork and documentation as soon as we were able to do so.
Thanks for your very informative comment.

The note on katakana isn't very helpful -- but Japanese does indeed have quite few phonemes, 21 according to various random searches (sounds about right). Spanish has 24, French 34 and English 44 according to [1] (No source for Japanese).

Apparently Cantonese has 609-630 or so (due to being a tone language).

Actually that number for English sounds a bit high, I believe 40-41 is more reasonable. Perhaps it includes "all" dialects of English.

[1] http://perso.limsi.fr/mareuil/publi/1209.pdf
> Modern file systems like ZFS, which Apple considered but abandoned as a replacement, include checksums of all meta data structures. That means that when the file is accessed, the filesystem detects the corruption and throws an error.

This is exactly backwards - metadata checksums don't protect file contents. They just cover the integrity of the FS so when the FS internals are corrupted, it knows not to write to random places on the disk and can with redudancy can try to recover the metadata.
I've used it and still am, in somewhat of an experiment, but with great results:

I used to work with ZFS for a living, so I want it to work - maybe that makes me biased.

I wrote an article on the wiki[0] on CoreStorage and Encryption together with ZFS and it's been working as expected for a couple of months now.

I currently use it to test family/friends backup with SyncThing[1] to see if it can make a (although bit hacky) viable backup solution for the common man, with file history based on routinely snapshots (which will make problems, e.g. how Dropbox explicitly doesn't sync open word documents, how a VMs disk image might not be super great to backup "as is" while in use).

As a final note: it can not replace HFS+ for TimeMachine backup either.

[0]: https://openzfsonosx.org/wiki/Encryption

[1]: http://syncthing.net/
I may be wrong ..
Originally firebug had to be really slow because of the interfaces available for debugging, the internal tool could work without slowing everything to a crawl.

With the newer debugging interface it seems like firebug can work and the browser can be fast.
Not meta enough. When was the last time you designed the chart for a book or other static media?

I'd like to think that in this age there's no need to force a static, unexplorable view of the data to the user at all.
It's all well and good if you want to have the social connection while fiddling with your food. However nowadays you don't have to if you don't want to. I for one would not like to spend a lot of my waking non-eating time preparing my food.
Does a pyramid count as a structure by your definition then?
I don't have time to refute this kind of wrong-headed thinking in detail. Suffice it to say that I'm not just talking about fast food per se, I'm talking about the entire way that modern industrially prepared foodstuffs are processed, the huge proportion of grain that goes into it, and the way flavors are extracted and re-added while completely separating them from the nutritional value that said flavors would normally signal to our organism. Spraying on vitamins is not the same as eating a fresh vegetable or animal meat that is known to contain those vitamins.

Simply put, we are in the nutritional dark ages right now. You exemplify my point perfectly by looking at the issue through an economic lens, and ignoring the difficult to pin down issues like the explosion of obesity and diabetes. Now you claim that I have no idea what I'm talking about, and I claim the same about you, but mark my words in 100 years people will look back on the diet of today with the same horror that they look back on bloodletting as medical practice.
I think Catalonia is richer (per capita) than the rest of Spain, so hourly rates in Barcelona might be higher than in other major cities.
Right. I am speaking from experience with relatively simple number crunching code. It became faster once I upgraded to newer version of gcc.
Now even very simple things (like say 8 queens) are just 5-10% faster when compiling with GCC 4.8 comparing to MSVC.
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comparing the web to food is like comparing an apple to an orange, you can't really compare them.

I liked your article but hmm fast food - slow food? I guess in my mind is fast food or healthy food, a salad can be created faster than fast food but still its healthy. I don't get what you are trying to compare there. Fast food has the meaning that if you are bored you just go and in 2-3 mins you can have something to eat rather than spending the time to cook or pick the items you want to cook.
>> As my Google friends say, it's like already half retired.

This is very interesting. Few employees I know at Google are very busy and working in several things at the same time.

>> I just did not want to do that in my late 20s.

I'm 26 and I think the same too. I have the need to build something where every line of code matters, making people's life easier instead of working in a big company.
This is actually a quite standard number format. Real computers like the 6502 http://www.6502.org/tutorials/decimal_mode.html and the IBM zSeries have harware support for that encoding http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary-coded_decimal#Packed_BCD and there are decoder chips like the 74LS48 that directly translate these nibbles to 7-segment display numbers.
Yeah, they even have their own hopelessly slow scripting language smalltalk clone that hardly anyone uses, except for some amateur hypertext hipsters. I mean, who here have heard of this language, ruby? /s
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at what index does the ascii encoding of the entire works of Shakespeare begin?
Thanks, interesting. (Although I can't help but mention: having had a bunch of classes teaching you how to properly distribute information and knowledge using a screen and powerpoint-style slides, this one sure looks like a total abomination to me - and looks can be deceiving unfortunately, they really don't add to the credibility here)
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