skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, fair point. cpio doesn't have global data structures that grow with the size of the operation, which cp does have. rsync prior to 3.0 also had to scan the entire job before it would begin the transfer, which can take forever. cpio operates on a stream, in the form of find | cpio , so cpio only sees one file from the stream at a time. Find, at least GNU find, is also written such that its resources don't vary with the amount of output.

rsync is a bit of a kitchen sink, and cp is too simple. cpio is just the thing, and was designed for this exact use case.
Doh! http://www.oberon.ethz.ch/downloads/index
> (Audience is in tears as they stand up and give a standing ovation)

Hilariously, genius!
You aren't the target audience. Your mother and grandmother are. And that generation does want this phone, not just/only for the phone, but for all the tertiary benefits it brings (Prime, App of the Week, etc)
I see these most often on a EC2 PV instance's console when I'm watching it during instance termination. Apparently the (Ubuntu 14.04) kernel does something the xennet driver really doesn't like while shutting down.
>open-sores

By far my favorite unintentional turn of phrase I have seen today :)
Forgot an app name
Anyone remembered what this app is called.
Basically you email some numbers to the app daily. And it will create a chart for you.
You're just plain wrong. Not about the sushi. Europe doesn't have the means nor the corporate-government cooperation that the u.s. has for spying. It happens in Europe, even Switzerland, but for good, not evil. For example, Switzerland reoprting to the Red Cross the CIA rendition flights that it learned through its satellite communications monitoring program.

There's decent Mexican inn Basel. A Mexican and 1/2 Mexican Swiss have a restaurant.
Is it possible to integrate the ZoL modules with DKMS so that kernel upgrades are handled automagically?
Privacy concerns aside, it seems a little ironic that a tech startup is arguing against efficiency via automation.

Anyway, doesn't Fixed have a vested interest in more parking citations issued? Or does the photographic evidence hurt their ability to win cases on behalf of their clients?
Yeah, and Jazz is a trademarked name too.

I don't really see a reason I should care.
He was right. People wanted video, but no one used it. Not till touchscreen smartphone screens made video work.
I think your calculation on failing an array rebuild is wrong. Can you show how you got those numbers?
What are you doing to change the system?
"due to being jumbled with javascript..." - This made my day.
Can you link to anything about oversizing the pool? I think I vaguely remember a trick with creating a sparse file and adding that to the pool until you can replace that with a drive.
He Took a Polaroid Every Day, Until the Day He Died (2008)
You are right in one respect - even if the book became a number one bestseller, Peter Thiel is unlikely to feel the impact financially. But since he wrote a book in the first place, he wants something out of it. Whether he did it for money, increased fame, admiration, or respect, the book must do well for any of those things to come.

So while his motivation may be different than most authors, the path he must follow to make the book do well is largely the same. We'll likely see more things you wouldn't expect to see him do. A billionaire's ego is on the line.
Reprising a comment from a long time ago:

Nacchio was convicted of running a pump-and-dump insider trading scam that netted him ~$100MM at the expense of common public shareholders. If there's an award for "most obnoxious implication of NSA's wrongdoing", it should go to the attempted rehabilitation of people like Nacchio.

Here's the indictment. It's quite straightforward.

http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/site36/2007/0307...

Here's the cliff notes:

"No later than December 4, 2000, through and including September 10, 2001, NACCHIO was aware of material, non-public information about Qwest’s business, including, but not limited to" [litany of distressing concerns about Qwest's bottom line which ultimately proved dispositive in valuing Qwest].

Note the date.

Now, look at this table of Nacchio's stock sales:

http://oi60.tinypic.com/2n1tgr6.jpg

Nacchio claims to have believed that secret national security government contracts were going to rescue Qwest from their financial problems (note the implicit concession that Qwest had problems from which its financials needed to be rescued). One tie-in between Nacchio and NSA is the notion that by refusing requests from NSA, Nacchio lost those contracts. Stipulate that this is true; it's a plausible complaint. Nacchio still took the money and ran.
You may only reclaim your dignity in one of the following pre-approved fashions?
I worked at Eucalyptus for a few months in 2010.

From my point of view, the biggest pain points were:

- Below market salary, even for Santa Barbara.

- Seven Ph.D's running development seven different ways, leading to:

- Many Silos between departments, development, and delivery.

Even with all of that said, they were an amazing company to work for and had an amazing team of software developers, sales folks, and support team. I remember one day that Marten came in after Enterprise gave him a very nice Audi Convertible as a rental and he threw his keys in the middle of the engineering fishbowl telling the developers to take it out for a spin.

I believe I was employee 35-ish. I know that a few of the founders had plans to get sports jerseys made when they hit 50 employees with numbers 1-50 on the back.

Congrats to the team.
Btw, yes I know that it was reported to the Red Cross anonymously, not officially.
Http://www.hodinkee.com/blog/hodinkee-apple-watch-review
Europe's management has it's own set of problems.

I might add, Europe has also been at war for most of the time it has been inhabited. Just because parts of Europe have taken a break for the last 60 years doesn't negate this.
Which was long after 9/11, but right around when the occupy movement and tea party we're coming into being.
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I think the u.s. Has been at war for all but 21 years of its existence. I could be wrong - it was a stat from a website with an agenda.
"Our lives our filled with enough real decisions without the need for inane and subtle product ones."
Considering the length of time we spend with our gadgets it pays to spend a bit of time in those 'inane' decisions. However, if you're a light user and just want something that works you can always choose based on price. It's really not that hard.

"With the iPhone I'm now forced to regret the decision either way."
But are you though? Let's imagine for a second that the iPhone 6+ didn't exist. Is the iPhone 6 enough of an upgrade for you to want it? The obvious upgrade path is iPhone 5 to iPhone 6, if you've never wanted a phablet then the iPhone 6+ is not for you. There, I made your decision for you.
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I've spent a few hours talking with Peter, and he talks in well-formed thoughts in well-structured sentences. A lot of other people, probably me included, wander a bit verbally. Peter doesn't.

You can see a transcript of a conversation I had with him here:
http://www.cnet.com/news/talking-tech-with-peter-thiel-inves...
What problems, btw? Surely nothing even close to the scope of the u.s.
Peter Thiel Q&A on investing, startups, politics (2011)
Europe's a big place. My corner of it had a secret CIA prison.

Also there's a Vietnamese restaurant here called "Hong Kong Lounge". The crimes don't end at the US border.
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But Yahoo is a public company and the ones they are punishing is the shareholders. At what point does the government need to tell shareholders that they are siphoning cash?
Eucalyptus was an academic project that spun off into a commercial product. That may explain all the Ph.Ds and academic approach to things.

I found Eucalyptus to be hard to set up and get working, tedious to manage, and unreliable. Pretty clearly the momentum has been with OpenStack the past couple of years.
I reckon I will give it a try before I blast it on an online message board. KR is a smart guy, and he sure could use a win, so all the best to him.
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> Voltage really doesn't kill but current will.

Here is a good video about that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xONZcBJh5A
So I don't really consider myself a Haskell programmer, but the standard advice is to think about operation you are going to perform on those strings and numbers later, then think if there is a datatype you could create instead.

As an example, suppose I am trying to load a csv file with two fields being strings and one being Double. A list of lists representation isn't going to cut it. Instead I should make a Row datatype

data Row = Row {field1 :: String, field2 :: String, field3 :: Double}

Then you can parse the csv file into a [Row] representation.

As an aside, if the task did involve parsing csv I suggest the cassava library which I found out about through the amazing What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell (http://dev.stephendiehl.com/hask/)
If the other methods failed, why try to hide the guns? Just spin it as though it's in the interest of the public. Governments do that all the time.
>> What we want from Apple isn't new technology. We want human warmth—a possibility of living a more fulfilled, meaningful life.

So your life's meaning and fulfillment depends on Apple? That's really sad.
No they are rapidly prototyping start-ups. They are going to come to market with a dif product every quarter until one is sticky/ run several apps simultaneously (and integrate?).
Give it a second. They're going to space to find out.
Poland? Wasn't there political fallout from that?
Unfortunately, it is a lot easier to build a photo-sharing app with a lifetime of experience in the consumer internet space, than it is to become arguably the best entrepreneur to have ever lived.
In most places I've been inthe US , every individual gas pump has a seal from a local government inspector certifying -- with a date -- the inspection of the individual pump

What I don't understand is why anybody believes that that seal actually means anything, just because it's "government". I mean, I wouldn't (and don't) trust the State of North Carolina any further than I can throw it. The State government is still just a system, made up of fallible, corruptible people, with all the same quirks and foibles of people who make up private enterprise. In the end, there's no real reason to trust State regulators.
In American movies and television, there is this uncomfortable silence where the western used to be.
The slides in the same repo may help.

https://code.google.com/p/corkami/source/browse/trunk/src/an...
Certificate revocation and the performance of OCSP
the question is not whether this is a gimmick but why is he on google's payrol?
Yes, Base64 encoding will expand a payload by 33%. However, SMS limits the character set you can send easily, with the most common mode of transit being the 7 bit SMS character set. With the SMS character set having an escape character that can get in the way of doing a direct encoding, I imagine they went with Base64 because there were already libraries for it, minimizing the work they had to do at this stage.
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My only wish for silicon valley was that it was cheaper to live there. I really don't care that there are a ton of photo sharing apps. If someone has a fire in their belly and want to make something, even if it has been done before, more power to them. Let the VCs sort through the junk and fund what they find valuable, that should be part of their value. I don't understand this reaction to a techcrunch article. I wish there were more Elon Musks, but don't necessarily care if they were in Silicon Valley. Personally, I'd like to see Detroit come up, and I'd like to see money flow into augmenting the life of the majority of folks; people that can't afford Tesla cars. And the valley does have more Elon Musks, waiting to break out like Paypal so they can chase their crazier aspirations.
btrfs at least offers the flexibility to use a collection of mismatched drives and ensure that N copies of the data exist across separate devices. Once it's parity-based RAID modes are stable, it should be able to retain that flexibility while offering a redundant option for cases where N=2 wastes too much space. That combined with regular scrubbing should suffice for moderately sized arrays.

Treating drives differently based on their expected failure rates seems like it would only matter for very large arrays trying to keep the redundancy as low as possible.
This is cute and true. Years ago I managed authors for Barnes and Noble. The best ones, the richest ones, would stay hours talking to their fans. They would sign books, but talk for a long time to each reader, and sometimes these conversations would extend to drinks then dinner with a group of readers. Of course, the authors that put in the time with their fans were the most successful. I don't think it was an accident.
I'm just glad PRISM is nothing but an extremely expensive Rube Goldberg contraption for responding to warrants. Golly, why did Yahoo bother going to court to fight the notion that when a court issues a warrant ...

"Yahoo also felt that warrantless requests placed discretion for data collection 'entirely in the hands of the Executive Branch without prior judicial involvement' thereby ceding to the government 'overly broad power that invites abuse” and possible errors that would result in scooping up data of U.S. citizens as well.'

Oh.
Looks like the author is a YC alum. It's destined to reach the front page.
> And more generally: the NSA has been hovering up all the data in the world, because it has no clue what it is doing. "Big data" really means "dumb data."

I think he nailed it. Working a bit with "big data" I 100% agree with him.
Hot word detection is not always on with the 360. Gesture recognition is, though. I'd put my money on that.
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Amazon, Publishers, and Readers
Use a sum type:

data Datum = S String | D Double

lst :: [Datum]
lst = [S "a", D 3.14]

In Python we'd have to write the logic to handle both cases and fail with an exception or do an instanceof check. In Haskell we'd do this by pattern matching on the sum type.

case (lst !! 42) of
S n -> -- handle string
D n -> -- handle number
> "Allow" means to affirmatively allow ISPs to charge fees when they couldn't before, while "not disallow" means to not put new regulations in place stopping ISPs from charging fees.

How is that a difference? The result of both is identical: The ISPs won't be permitted to charge fees.

Look at it in a different context. Because of a technicality in the wording of a statute, all existing traffic laws are found unconstitutional. The legislature introduces a bill that reinstates most of the traffic laws in a way which is constitutional but the bill doesn't reinstate the prohibition against driving while intoxicated. Are you really claiming that someone who points out that the bill "allows driving drunk" is incorrect? At best you're being incredibly pedantic.

> An analogous discussion for "slow down/make inaccessible" vs. "not speed up". There's no difference between these things? I think there's a huge difference. If I'm a company that doesn't pay the fee, will I get the same service I did before, or will I be slowed down/cut off?

In the presence of sufficient capacity no packets are dropped and there is no fast lane or slow lane. The only way to have a fast lane is to have insufficient capacity and then allocate the existing capacity in preference to the fast lane at the expense of the slow lane. The result is to slow down the people who don't pay the fee.
I agree, let the script speak for itself. It's great!
First, "old" in this case is "older than 3 years", which is about 3 years older than almost any other phone manufacturer; my almost 3-year old iphone 4S is still getting updates the same day a new phone does. (Yes, my more-than-5-years-old iphone 3G does not, so?)

2nd, they don't care about older-than-3 iphones. But they care about getting old iphone owners to feel good about themselves and to upgrade to a newer one. And disparaging older products goes against that.

The author of this piece has got it completely confused: Talking sh*t about your old products is in the Microsoft playbook. Whenever they have a new Windows coming out, they tell you how bad the old one was so you should upgrade. Apple has never done that.
Raymond Chen's The Old New Thing comes to mind, http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/. Mostly windows though.
Brendan Iribe, co-founder of Oculus VR, makes record $31M donation to UMD
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Reminds me of two major events in my youth. Like you being shocked by the HV rail of an old tube radio and another acting as the ground for an old floor polisher in my grandpas shed. I guess I preferred the 115v AC, I remember it kind of like a massage chair but all through my body. Luckily my brother knocked into me long enough to let go, not sure I could have otherwise. The radio was brutal, knocked me back across the room leaving my hand aching for a bit, scared the beep out of me.
Coding on things other than a computer gets a little easier when the tools exist :)

I've made quick pushes via web IDE on my phone while commuting. I doubt improved tooling would increase frequency, but it would certainly increase the complexity I'd be capable of and my confidence in not pushing janky brokenness.
GPS is a poor replacement for local knowledge.

I recently got in a cab in SF with visiting parents, asked to go to Hayes Valley, and the guy started driving off in the complete wrong direction. At first I figured he thought we were tourists and he was taking us for a ride, but I quickly realized that he had simply put some nonsense into his GPS, completely relying on it, and had no idea where he was going. I can't understand how you can be a cabbie in SF and not know where an entire neighbourhood is.
the bar for creating "me too" gimmicky apps is so low that this kinda of stuff is bound to happen.
I feel like a fool sometimes where I have my iPhone out and everyone else around me does too. At least theirs are sometimes white. Now – your wrist is almost always visible. Once everyone gets an Apple Watch, if there were just one single minimalist design, it would start to feel less like a watch and more like a dog tag.
You could be "screwing up" someone's data if an in-tree filesystem breaks. If you read the supplementary blog posts, you would have seen the following:

http://lwn.net/Articles/437284/

Nearly all in-tree filesystems can fail in the same way described there. ZFS cannot. That being said, no filesystem is a replacement for backups. This applies whether you use ZFS or not. If you care about your data, you should have backups.
Wow, this is like the mobile era's acoustic coupler :D what's not to like about something that weird?!
So what are you designing with these days and what's your typical design cycle like?
The "massive memory requirements" only exist if you use data deduplication and care about write performance. Otherwise, ZFS does not require very much memory to run. It has a reputation to the contrary because ARC's memory usage is not shown as cache in the kernel's memory accounting, even though it is cache. This is in integration issue that would need to be addressed in Linus' tree.
This. This is an old school concept that was run at the Telecom level and deemed impractical.
My girlfriend asked me to write that you're an idiot.
I don't really care what people wear, but a zoot suit or an afro isn't the same as exposing most of your underwear in public.
Don't tear apart the details of what the author wrote. Just squint your eyes, and you know he's dead right. This is exactly the kind of storytelling that was missing from Tuesday's keynote. Steve always started with WHY before he got to the WHAT or the HOW. Tim Cook was shaking his fists in triumph after doing nothing but showing some over-produced video that showed some cool camera angles on the watch. Not a word about why it should exist, or what it changes about your life. WE DID IT! WE MADE A WATCH! WOOO! My jaw dropped. Very tacky. Too self-congratulatory.
Yes to using ZFS for your root drive. Probably no to using L2ARC in a laptop.
That's the point, that it does exist. I don't regret the other iPhone 5's because they actually don't exist. Since the iPhone 6+ actually does exist, developers will start programming custom superior landscape layouts for it that will serve to continually remind me I don't have it.

Had the only difference been physical size, the decision would be easy like you describe, I'd be measuring on one variable that I know how I prefer. (Note that this could be similarly fixed by apple choosing to offer the landscape modes on the 6 too, then it would just be battery and camera that are worse, of which battery is understandable).
I don't care how good Steve Jobs pitch is. I'm not buying Apple Health from him.
When I first read this I wondered if they might have been trying to get rid of left over processors from the Motoactv [1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motoactv
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Missing the holiday season is intentional -- for one, Apple does that all the time, to great effect re Q2 sales (they require no additional holiday sales boost). Secondly, they deliberately licked the cookie of this product category, which is going to annihilate holiday quarter sales for their competitors and most likely cripple wearables teams in terms of group buyin for the coming year.
I use it as my laptop's root filesystem. It works well for me. Here is a link to notes on how I installed it:

https://github.com/ryao/zfs-overlay/blob/master/zfs-install
Does the author expect everyone to wear the same mock turtleneck, levis, and new balances too?
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you understand that in order for this to be marketing it needs to be public information.
Yeah that's true but it's still silly. Phones sit in your pocket, they mostly look the same, it's not that big a deal.

Watches on the other hand have been fashion items for over a hundred years. There are countless variations. It would be arrogant - even for Jobs - to claim that a single design would satisfy everyone, would be perfect.
Right, but what would that look like? Would the FISA court jail a citizen without a trial, and can you imagine a FISA judge wanting to make that call, knowing that their decision will soon become public? Because once someone is prosecuted the U.S. govt would really have difficulty enforcing silence. It's one thing to force a company to be silent about surveillance, it's quite another to force individuals to be silent about being jailed. I'd like to think we haven't gone so far off the tracks that the first amendment wouldn't ultimately triumph in that case.
Secret Surveillance Battle Between Yahoo and the U.S. Government Revealed
Ask HN: Is stereoscopic photography possible with telescopes?
Noob astronomy question: Imagine two telescopes photographing the same region of the sky (much like the human eyes). Can this help us perceive depth (distance from the Earth) ?