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I couldn't agree more, though with one small caveat.

> Rather than making you scroll through full-width photos like Instagram, Tiiny lets you get a constantly-updated look at what lots of your friends are up to in a single glance.

Essentially they're combining instagram and snapchat. That's a cool idea, I can see it. I also can see both of those companies implementing the exact same thing with only a couple days of dev time to do so.

And this is where my caveat lies. I love projects where people make things, maybe useful - maybe worthless, but typically interesting things that they make because they want them. Call it the hacker ethic, or a "maker" attitude, or whathaveyou.

I also have no problem with people then turning these into successful businesses. But you've got to be realistic when turning that into a company and this project feels more like a side project than a full-time company to me. If snapchat and instagram didn't already exist it'd be another story - but they do so the project no longer is as novel as they were.

So in the end I very much dislike that your parent comment was upvoted as much as it was on hacker news - but at the same time context is important, that this a company and not one person's pet project.
I'd recommend adding webpack ( https://github.com/webpack/webpack ) to build tools. It's similar to browserify but has some nice extra features.
That's nonsense. The US was not involved in armed conflict from 1920 (end of involvement in the Russian Civil War) to 1941 (start of <edit: American involvement in> WWII). That's 21 years right there. Maybe they're saying that 21 years was the longest period between military conflicts.
That would be my guess too.... I hope it means they're working right now on something better for v2 which will improve the battery performance (which seems the biggest issue with most of the current generation of smartwatches)....
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That is not a requirement. ZoL has the most sophisticated build system of any Linux kernel module in the world to enable it to live outside of the main tree. ZoL relies on autotools' API checks to do this. In addition, the project has an automated buildbot that helps us to detect regressions in pull requests before they are merged. It is similar in principle to how lustre filesystem development is done. Lustre is also (primarily) outside of the tree and lived entirely outside of the tree for years.

That being said, being inside the kernel source tree is not necessarily a good thing. As I wrote in the blog post, other filesystems on Linux generally do not provide the latest code to older kernels, but ZoL provides the latest code to all supported kernels and distributions. This ranges from Linux 2.6.26.y to the 3.16.y in 0.6.3 and will include 3.17.y in 0.6.4. Something as important as a filesystem should be updated to fix bugs, even if the kernel proper cannot be. The inability of all Linux systems to update to the latest kernel is an issue that Linus Torvalds mentioned at LinuxCon North America 2014 and ZoL is one of the few filesystems that can deal with it on systems where it is deployed.
The vast majority of people who create startups are trying to make $$. Nearly all of the claim to the contrary that they are doing it for the reasons you mention, but very few actually are.
It certainly would have been material within a short amount of time. One could debate exactly how many quarters that line is hit at, but at $45m to $90m it starts to become very stupid to hide from shareholders from a legal standpoint.

Not reporting the exact details of a $90m acquisition is not a huge deal (for Yahoo). Not reporting on-going government fines that have amounted to $90m in a year, would be a huge deal. One is in theory the acquisition of value and enhances the business, the other is just a black hole of cash destruction.

Further, beyond the money, intentionally doing something against the US Government such that you're getting fined per day, is a big issue for shareholders to know about. Especially given the power the government wields these days.
The copyright owners wishes are very well explained:

"Images I post in this thread and my related commentary are posted and published by me, the original photographer. All copyrights and all other rights reserved. These images may not be copied or otherwise distributed outside of this forum without my express permission."

To me, it pretty clear that initiating an archive against that page was explicitly ignoring the copyright owners wishes, not respecting them, and placing your belief in "preservation of digital history" above the rights of the person who took the photos.

I'm conflicted, because like you I'd hate to see those images vanish - but I now strongly suspect _next_ time this guy takes some pictures of something I'm fascinated by, he won't be posting them publicly any more.

(And you do know "but we gave you _attribution!_" is about the lamest and most infuriating thing you can say to a rightsholder who's copyright you're violating, right? And probably one of the favourite things their lawyers can possibly have in writing...)
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What’s next? Don Draper doing a marketing pitch to Apple as if he was selling the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch?
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Not to mention that if they really felt the need to break Yahoo, the Feds have a vast array of ways to do so. The fine is the most trivial approach in their arsenal.

And if we wander into nefarious approaches, well, Yahoo was going to comply no matter what if the Feds felt like they needed it to happen for PRISM to be effective.
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Well, assuming that the front-end app is served through SSL (avoid MITM), the only other possible hole I see is physical access to the machine while the browser tab is open, no? Can other browser tabs, malware or browser plugins access memory while the app is running?
1941 was not the start of WWII. It started in 1939.
Yes, that idea does allow for measurement of distances to astronomical objects. Sadly, to get decent measurements for things like stars, the two telescopes need to be very far apart -- farther apart than the diameter of the earth. But we can be clever about it; if we take a picture of a star and then take another one 6 months later, then the distance between the two positions we took pictures from is the diameter of the earth's orbit around the sun -- around 300 million km (while the diameter of the earth is less than 13 thousand km).

That allows measurement of the distance to nearby stars. For most stars, though, even 300 million km isn't far enough.

From Wikipedia[1]:

> Astronomers use the principle of parallax to measure distances to the closer stars. Here, the term "parallax" is the semi-angle of inclination between two sight-lines to the star, as observed when the Earth is on opposite sides of the sun in its orbit. These distances form the lowest rung of what is called "the cosmic distance ladder", the first in a succession of methods by which astronomers determine the distances to celestial objects, serving as a basis for other distance measurements in astronomy forming the higher rungs of the ladder.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax
I was curious so I installed it and tried to create a site and it asked me to login/register. I don't think this fits in well with the rest of the list since its more of a service than a package.

It would have been great if registration was only necessary when actually deploying the site.
So many people I talk to think the expanding tyranny primarily comes from politicians or bankers or corporations (the blame targets). When it actually comes from their fellow citizens, effectively voting away rights election after election for decades.
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I am working on tearing down barriers to this. Expect to see the fruit of that effort later this year.

That said, I do not consider absence from Linus' tree to be a barrier because being in Linus' tree limits the ability of end users to obtain bug fixes. That is a problem other filesystems have that I am happy to see ZFSOnLinux avoid.

Also, Linus Torvalds and I discussed the possibility of merging ZFS into his tree because of feedback like yours. In short, Linus has no interest in merging ZFS into his tree. Linus thinks that it might enable Oracle might sue people unless they provide a signed-off to confirm that the code is under the CDDL. He also thinks that the kernel signed off keeps Oracle from suing people over btrfs when software patents are a likely loophole.

Lastly, I realize that my statement about the signed off confirming that the code is under the CDDL might sound strange. However, there are two cases to consider. The first case involves source code. The GPL does not restrict the redistribution of source code, so there would be no problem. The second case is binaries, which the GPL does restrict in situations in which a court of law would consider to be a derived work. Being a module only option should be sufficient to deal with that. Linus did not seem to have any problem with that idea. However, he insists on Oracle's signed off with the preference that it be Larry Elison.
On Unix, isn't it considered bad practice to use cp in order to copy a large directory tree?

IIRC, the use of tar is recommended.

Something like:

$ (cd $origin && tar cf - *) | (cd $destination && tar xvf - )
> In a relatively small FS tree is just fine, but when you start having GBs and GBs and tens of thousands of files, it becomes somewhat impractical.

I regularly rsync machines with millions of files. On a slow portable 2.5" 25MB/sec USB2 connection it's never taken me more than 1hr on completely cold caches to verify that no file needs to be copied. With caches being hot, it's a few minutes. And on faster drives it's faster still.

Unless you are doing something weird and force it to checksum, checksumming mostly kicks in on files that have actually changed and can be transferred efficiently in parts (i.e. network; NOT on local disks). In other cases, it's just a straight copy.

Have you actually used rsync in the setting you describe, or at least read its manual?
How many of the webforums you post on give you access to update the robots.txt file to inform Internet Archive about your copyright desires?

Like I said - I'm conflicted about this, I _want_ these images to be available, and whatever the guy wrote in his forum post we know Google (and Blekko!) will index and download them and will pretty soon be causing them to be "otherwise distributed outside of this forum" - but the guy's wishes are clear, even if not explicitly machine-readable.
This is probably going on a tangent, but I think a better question is: why aren't there more Elon Musks already?

It's not like Silicon Valley isn't a welcoming place for a deterministic person like Musk. Furthermore, people with his determinism generally need to will their vision into existence, so it's not like some amazing entrepreneur is just sitting under a rock waiting to be discovered.
Nice to hear that you had a good experience here in India. But don't get too excited yet.

Medical industry is only lucrative to foreigners coming to India because of the foreign exchange factor. Otherwise its the same this there too. Not the kind of Insurance company mess I hear happening in the US through folks on this forum, but there similar things here too.

To start with most doctors will write down a series of tests even if they are dead sure of what the problem is. These even include stuff like viral fever, common cold. People fall for it because dengue and typhoid has been always been for a while here. We have a famous test called 'basin test'- basically it means collecting the patients blood and draining it in the basin, because every one is so sure that the patient has no issues there is hardly any point wasting time and resources testing.

Doctors purposefully prolonging treatments to keep the consultation fees coming is pretty common. Most physicians close to your home, where you would generally go have a deal with a the nearest pharmacy for commissions in exchange for writing down drugs which are only available in the pharmacy. Same works for writing down tests. Although these days 'polyclinics' are getting pretty common, the doctor will generally have a small test lab at the clinic and will to makes some money through that too. I even know doctors who run diabetic camps, thyroid camps and obesity camps and what not just to get patients to clinics because drug companies want some free marketing and trap more patients to believe they have some disease which they don't.

Medical education is expensive in India. Sure you will get respect but even for an ordinary Indian, overall tuition and capitation fees means the only way for them to recover their investment is through either cheating or dowry.

The bigger problems like are a little different, but even there mishandling of cases and purpose full wrong treatment to pump up the hospital bills is pretty common.

Its the same everywhere. Its about greed, people in US and India are no different. Greed works the same way in US the way it works in India.
Yes, but the question is how many years has the United States not been at war. The US did not enter WWII until 1941.
It guessed the author based on the first sentence of that paragraph, not the last.
Now to convince my boss to let me implement fartscroll.js on our site...
It's called 'disappeared' and we're close.
The adulation is a bit rich. Wasn't 3.5 inches claimed to be "the perfect size" by this same individual?

Part of being Steve Jobs is knowing when you have a breakthrough and knowing when you've got an incremental improvement. He did plenty of the latter as well as the former.
I'm not terribly involved, but I'll bring it up next time I get the chance!
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I find it very hard to believe any government agency could take Marissa Mayer or anyone on the board off to jail with no reason and not cause a huge stir...
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>>Higher than lawyers, businessmen, engineers.

This was true at one point in time. May be around 2 decades back. But engineering has gotten very lucrative due to the IT boom, overall growth in economy and general demand for engineers in a high growth environment.

Also engineering has a lower barrier to entry and pays better than what many physicians make these days. To make anything decent as a doctor you have to do your MD, which is expensive both in terms of investment of time and money. And even after that, the job at the hospital won't pay you anything close to what your average engineer at a MNC would get paid.

And then don't forget the fact that many engineers can make money through side projects, freelancing and take adhoc risks like doing start ups which isn't even an option to most doctors.
Completely unrelated and Sorry for derailing but isn't it cart before the horse? I mean the horse is always in front of the cart. I am not a native English speaker. Am i missing anything?
Interesting point on science funding practices:

I think there's been a Gresham's Law in science funding in this country, as the political people who are nimble in the art of writing government grants have gradually displaced the eccentric and idiosyncratic people who typically make the best scientists. The eccentric university professor is a species that is going extinct fast.
Frankly, I'm glad Cook is not trying to imitate Jobs. Imagine if Cook had gone on stage and followed the script jiggly wrote. It would have come off completely insincere. Sincerety is why Jobs was great, and it's why Cook is great. He doesn't BS us, as Jiggity seems to want.

But the thing is, no matter what Apple does people will complain. There's always another way that they could say would have been better. If Apple had released only one watch model, in black, then people would complain about how they would never wear a black watch.

No, this is exactly the kind of spin we've seen from people after every Apple keynote, going back to the late 1990s. Steve Jobs was not immune. It's just now that he's dead, they have a new "it's cause Jobs is dead!" rationalization.

This is just a warm over of the standard issue "iPod is lame", "iPhone needs a 'real' keyboard", "iPad is just a big iPod touch", "the iMac needs a floppy drive!" type complaint after every product introduction.
Why not do it using audio modem software over a phone call ... might be able to reach higher speeds - approaching 56kbps??
You get the definition of "symmetric" wrong. Symmetric encryption refers to using the same key for encryption and decryption, as opposed to asymmetric, aka public-key encryption. By no means AESEncrypt and AESDecrypt are the same functions.

That said, some encryption modes employing AES, like AES in CTR mode, are based on generating a pseudo-random keystream and XORing it with cleartext to get the ciphertext. The inverse of that operation is itself, but that has nothing to do with the term "symmetric encryption". This particular case uses AES in CBC mode, which is not symmetric in that sense.
One cannot intuit until one knows the territory. Intuition is what the good students will develop by the time they get to "upper level math". And they develop it by seeing and solving a lot of math problems step by step. The "hard way" is not as fast as intuition, but it has a set of instructions that can be taught and followed. You cannot just tell the students in first grade: you don't need to follow any instructions, just start intuiting the answers by looking at the big picture.

What you call "the hard way" is the way people have learned addition for a thousand years, and it works. It worked for Newton, Einstein, and the guys who put men on the moon.

Aside: The day I see a Millennial kid make change from a cash register without having to look at the computer screen is the day I might start taking math education advice from your generation...

Aside #2: I too did an image search for 'common core math'. Look what I found! I think they make my point for me:

http://i1.wp.com/truthinamericaneducation.com/wp-content/upl...

http://greenecountyteaparty.ohlc.org/wp-content/uploads/site...
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I think you meant "determined", if Musk was deterministic that would surely detract a lot from his future potential.
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When Steve Jobs introduced the iPod, I believe the author was probably 10 years old.
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> In general people/entities with principles and morals have a higher price to pay. For them it's worth it.

Or the reality of a destroyed life leads them to suicide as the only way out. Prison is pretty terrible.
>> I browsed the net for other peoples' experience with copying many files and quickly decided that cp would do the job nicely

> After 20 years you no longer google how to copy files.

He didn't "google" how to copy files
That link pops up a login screen for me.
It's a consequence of too many choices. A new framework pops up showing great promise. Nothing is every fully polished to begin with but before it can gain widespread adoption where contributors fill in the blanks, a new kid on the block shows up and any momentum with the first one is lost as people move on looking for grassier fields.
That wouldn't get you on their mailing list though, would it?
Wouldn't it be even worse for other wearable companies if people could, you know, buy the iWatch in time for the holidays?
Prices aren't low. They are actually pretty much high for an ordinary Indian. They appear low to you because if you pay in dollars you get 60 rupees for ever dollar.

So its the currency conversion factor is what makes it look low.
endemic? I have no idea what you meant by that word. It's not the right word at all.

iPhones are pretty much "worn" these days, either in the hand or pocket. What about the iPods that are worn daily by runners and practically everyone in the gym.
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A week doesn't go by without me seeing Steve Job's name in some click-bait headline and inasmuch as the author has identified current problems with Apple we can add the cult of Jobs to that list.

Yes, of course, Jobs had amazing charisma, and bringing Apple back from the brink of bankruptcy with well designed products by Johnny Ive deserves its legend. But as the novelty of these products wear off (as they should) Apple still strives to distinguish itself (and continue to charge its premiums) by designing superior hardware. The hardware market is somewhat saturated, but since the tech is always improving, planned obsolescence means we get to take advantage of superior tech and better products every few years.

The real growth market is the cloud and internet-of-things, and I think the author got it right by imagining Jobs describing the watch as a product for the "personal universe". Tethering to an iPhone is the first step to tethering to the Cloud. Apple is still trying to figure out the cloud, and they keep stumbling, and the celebrity leak (of which nothing was said to a room full of celebrities), and the live stream screw up are the latest examples. Also, egregiously, their indifference to producing a responsive website. They're still a hardware company, and the hardware, combined with their tightly controlled OS X / Unix based software, provide a solid platform for the design of superior software, by others.

The first iPhone was severely limited and it didn't become the democratized smartphone until after the App Store and the 3G, that is to say, after they crowdsourced software development. The watch seems like the iPhone 2G and the Nano watch hack as revised by Ive. I don't want this version, but I'll probably want the one after the next, when its twice as thin, and Ive makes another pompous video extolling its bullshit (I can't have been the only one rolling my eyes at the "horological experts" and the "conferring on how different cultures care about time" ... the clock was perfected years ago).

The thing about Apple is that they keep making the Modernist Future come true - handheld communicators, tablets, and now walkie-talkie watches. Tim Cook is proud of the fact that they pulled off the Dick Tracy finally, and who cares whatever Samsung did a year ago. What they really need to pull off next are the holograms.

It just seems to me as well that to everything there is a season, and Apple has had a glorious turn of the century. It integrated itself with youth culture, but do you think the kids of the 2030s will still crowd Apple retail stores, presuming they still exist? Or will they see the brand as that of their parents, and thus lame.

My greater point though is that Jobs is dead and let him rest in peace, and let Apple grow beyond Jobs, and don't worry if one day in about twenty years you hear some kid say Apple is lame. Apple did that to Sony, and presumably some startup out there now, or about to be created, might do that to Apple.
I too have become fond of str.format. OTOH, I'm sure there are people complaining about it. And the fact is that their complaints have merit, no matter how awesome str.format may be.

printf and shell-style variable interpolation have been with us for a long time, and they're not going away any time soon. Learning how to use them is time well spent. If someone copies either of these interfaces, then immediately lots of people know how to use the result.

But str.format is only for Python. I doubt anyone is going to clone it in some other language (prove me wrong!). Now, I use Python often enough that I don't forget how str.format works between times I need to use it. But for many people, it's just annoying.

In any case, a nice article. I learned a couple of new tricks to try.