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Please don't misunderstand. I don't mean to compare the nobility or importance of changing taxi regulations with the American civil rights movement, the Indian independence movement, or other notable historical instances of civil disobedience.

But I do not believe the civil disobedience is only effective for causes of that scale.
Brian from Backblaze here.

Correct, we are entirely on ext4 now (there might be one or two old pods running JFS left, I would need to double check).

We figured out a way to work around the 16 TByte volume limit originally, but now ext4 even supports larger volumes so that isn't a problem at all anymore.

More random history: At the time we chose JFS it looked like XFS might lose support (XFS was created by a now defunct company I used to work for called SGI). Well, the world is a strange place and XFS now has more support than JFS, despite SGI going out of business. But in the end, ext4 is the "most commonly used" linux file system and therefore is arguably the most supported with extra tools and such, and the performance of ext4 in many areas seems higher than JFS (at least for our use case) so the decision becomes easier and easier to go with ext4.
How I can get out of a job that has me burned out and exhausted?

To give you the honest truth, speak up or quit. You are not doing yourself or your employer any favours staying and burning yourself out.

I was in the same situation about 6 months ago myself. I was part of a small team that was increasingly being overworked and expected to deliver in unrealistic amounts of time. Overtime was being factored into estimates and instead of overtime being a sometimes thing, eventually all projects were actually taking into account weekends. Nobody was being paid for the extra time and once new management came in, unless TOIL (time off in lieu) was agreed upon in advance, you were not given time off at a later date.

I left and while it was hard because I loved the people I worked alongside, I did it for myself, my career and my family. You are not doing yourself any favours by staying, so stop asking for advice and make a decision.
We're not doing anything explicitly posix with ceph - not using the ceph filesystem. We're using ceph for block storage under virtual machines that use KVM/QEMU with libvirt etc. The block devices exposed to the VMs end up using having an ext4 filesystem on them but that has nothing to do with ceph.

So far seems fantastic from a VM perspective -- I can take down storage nodes, add new nodes etc, all while the VMs running up top stay alive and well. I once lost 1/3 of my cluster (on a 3 node cluster with 30 disks) ..and everything stayed running until I fixed the broken node.

Ceph also supports Object storage and an S3 interface -- I haven't experimented much with that yet, but I hear its good.
Yeah, me too. While I'm at it, really loved the post, made me smile (a lot). So you're "fourth time lucky" ;-)
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I sometimes wonder if politics is biased toward this kind of thing, since much of politics is about finagling advantage. Truth, fact, and reality offers little opportunity for deception, duplicity, and issue smuggling.
What he faces if caught is being brutally caged in solitary confinement for the rest of his life. I think that is an "extraordinary threat" and actually probably worse than being assassinated.
I think your joke was lost on many people.
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>Well, anticompetitive adversary.

Touche

>He certainly seems to be pretty good at both jobs.

I agree, and I am glad he gave us a likeable trait within his lifetime, unlike many of his robber-baron contemporaries and predecessors.
> How long do we wait before we strike immediate from that statement, and then set the != to ==?

Your statement assumes the people caring will result in change in government policy. I'm doubting those two things are connected anymore.
Yes, thank you. Here is the other article referencing it: http://avc.com/2009/09/founder-liquidity/
I think more people have some level of this phobia that one would expect.

Also people have a trust problem regarding airplanes. Not the "will it crash" kind of distrust, but more a diffuse and generic feeling coming from lost baggages, delayed flights, overbooking, nickel and diming, bland food and so on. The experience is genuinely awful for most travellers. Adding things to fret about (i.e. the scenery projection is BSOD for the whole flight, we don't know if we landed or not, etc) is just asking for troubles.
Don't act like you are burning in ENVY.

It's not my startup and I'm not even remotely connected to it (like the pun?). I just submitted a link about it. Chill.
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Yep, there is an ecosystem for whisteblowers building itself, that they can draw upon. Wondering when there will be a fund for whistleblowers :)
Geekdesk does. I have four settings, presumably two for one person (an up and a down) and two for a second; I don't actually share my desk, though.
Such an arrogant attitude. As if you'd be working on what you're working on if it didn't get you money or power. One is the other, really.

No human alive doesn't want power. That's the basic evolutionary fuel of our entire species. There's no other desire humans even have -- anything else is just a means to that end.

The truly powerful people in the world -- the ones whose names you don't know, because they don't particularly care for your knowing them -- they never lie to themselves, and they probably know exactly where their passions are. The less powerful people, the Jeff Bezos's and the Larry Ellisons, they probably learned over time.

The people who think they do what they do for any other reason are deluding themselves about the game that they're playing. There's only one game.
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Anyone know where I can get a standing desk (don't care if it's adjustable) that isn't insanely expensive?

As others have said the Ikea version is actually insanely cheap: http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/the-best-standing-desks .
> It's not valid to argue from ignorance that something that hasn't been tried cannot possibly work.

Again, it's not deductively logically valid, but it is most certainly inductively and statistically valid, and those are the validities that concern us: absence of evidence is evidence of absence, and for few things is there a more glaring absence than for intelligence boosts. After a century of formal pursuit, what do we have to show for it? A few very early childhood interventions like iodine; some interventions one should trust as far as one can kick them like dual n-back; and some stimulants offering temporary boosts (but are they boosting actual peak intelligence or just affecting motivation?).
Survival is a positive effect, I guess.
I would say storage space is still the issue. Most phones still come with 8/16 gigs where as on PCs a terabyte or more is common.
Being even more pedantic, fortified and enriched flour is normally created because the base product was bleached, not because of milling.
@danbruc, to supplement and extend pgt's response:

I'm a touch-typist, and when on some rare occasions I have to hunt-and-peck while programming (e.g. a fingercut or something), I'm absolutely and totally frustrated on how horribly slooooooow it is; kinda like being handicapped; imagine e.g. being able to use only your one hand to type; or, even better - having to type with your nose! (yes, nose, really!). Now, knowing that, I imagine that being able to type with this amazing steno speed, one feels a similar level of improvement vs. touch-typing.

So, that wasn't a straight answer to your concern, but given that I do feel like described above, I believe it shows that it somehow proves important to me as a programmer. Ah, also, now I remembered, there's the "classical" article on this by Jeff Atwood, which is worth a read: http://blog.codinghorror.com/we-are-typists-first-programmer...

edit: Also, now that I thought of it somewhat more, there are two additional benefits: One is, that typing faster leaves me with more time to do the actual thinking. Second one is, that makes my code more "lightweight" for me, in that it's somewhat easier to delete/iterate/refactor stuff, knowing subconsciously that I can quite easily type something similar ("other variant") fairly quickly.
This is actually terrible. Kids peak at all different times and mostly learn from peers who are more accomplished than they are. And to avoid the cache-22, the most advanced kids of course might learn from a teacher or kid of a more advanced year.
Wow, I might have to try that one myself. Iv'e just been buying the Field Roast brand seitan sausages, and they're awesome. I'd been missing the chorizo sausages of my childhood until those came along... but sadly, there is some scuffle between Field Roast and the Canadian government and so the product was taken off shelves. Good to know I could get good results if I wanted to DIY.
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> Since it isn't impacting most people beyond a mere rare inconvenience

Most people.

The reason no one is pushing to change it is that it's hard to lead a big effort with lackluster support. Very few people feel any impact at all.

It's obviously a bigger pain than benefit (it's arguably almost zero benefit). But what politician wants to lose out on a cooler project to spend time fighting for something almost no one really cares about?
Does anyone here use a standing desk? He have one at our office, but after 30 minutes I get too lazy and want to sit down.
The celebrity nude hack is a good case in point. "The cloud means some knucklehead from 4chan might steal all your data because they don't like your blog posts" has a certain ring to it.

It also might be helpful to drop "privacy." It's security. These are vulnerabilities. Apple could have encrypted this stuff with keys the customer controls, but that takes more engineering to make it friendly and usable. They won't until people care.
The gluten-free substitute products probably don't contain the FODMAPs that the self-reported "gluten sensitive" individuals are actually allergic to. I'm not sure that makes it a "baseless food fad", this is an area of ongoing research.
Maybe they're just tired of it. I'm personally a little sick of how every single article I post on willpower or procrastination to Reddit or HN or anywhere else will attract the same damn joke. Like, do you really think anyone hasn't seen that before? Or that everyone doesn't think of it in the first second? (By this point, I've come to see it not as a genuine attempt at humor, but basically like posting 'First!' or pissing on a wall - it's just doing something to mark your existence.)
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I'm looking for a neat utility that enables me to quickly browse/analyze log files, filter on content, etc. for web application development (django) on my local machine.
Disclaimer: VCE employee here. VCE is an EMC Federation Company [tm] with investments from Cisco and VMware.

> We would LOVE getting out of that part of our business [...]

That's a common theme when I meet with some unique companies that are still building out their own stacks of kit and just enough software to keep their consumption patterns consistent. It is about necessity some years but often comes down to the assembly line methods and sunk investments.

I'm curious how much variance you guys have / tolerate or if you ever see reaching VMI (maybe you are already there?) procurement levels?

Market wise, it isn't too outlandish to expect many of the "super highly reliable" options to have a future that is a spectrum of DIY + software (100% roll your own) all the way up to a full experience (status quo). Today, that roll your own option is a progression of hardware compatibility lists to reference architectures but there are only a few companies that go beyond that.

I'm curious to hear how much you see as "too much money" to keep your team from getting out of the rack/stack/burn/test/QA/QC/deploy. Do you plow the "too much money" less "build pods cheaper" into a value that can be compared an opportunity cost for the labor involved?
I realize it's probably not a popular opinion, but I feel that healthy streak of cynicism has helped me more than it has hurt me in life.

I guess the learning portion has been not to avoid being cynical, but to avoid expressing cynical sentiment to others. Very few like to hear it. But I believe immediately suspecting official explanations from almost any source to be self serving attempts at deception often lands one closer to actionable truth than simply accepting them at face value.
Sorry if I implied you were making that comparison. The comparison is my own: I do feel that civil disobedience should only be utilized for things of that scale.

For things where the dispute is over efficiency or cleaning out obsolete laws or correcting over/under-regulation, actual political involvement applies. Campaign vigorously, support and send candidates who feel passionately about your cause, withhold support from those who do not. Hold rallies, organize protests. Be involved.

But disobeying laws that were enacted via legal means and do not violate human rights crosses a line.

Imagine you're upset because your ISP charges massive prices and their quality of service is terrible (like this would ever happen). Contacting their support, reaching out to their corporate office, blogging about their poor service, and taking them to court over broken SLAs are all valid things to do. Refusing to pay your bill because the service is subpar is not.

It's not a perfect analogy, but hopefully it does a better job describing why I draw the line where I do.
> So Microsoft wrote their own Java runtime called the MS JVM, and made it part of Windows, it extended Java to do Windows-only things, meaning there were now "Java" apps that could only run on Windows, destroying the whole point of Java.

How does this differ from what Google did with Android, effectively leading to "Java apps that can only run on Android"?
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Also they only support Windows/OSX. I've been a customer of theirs for a few years, but I've recently switched to a competitor just so that I can backup my Linux NAS.
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It really depends on the journal and format. I've seen some very long articles and also biology articles in Nature which are maybe 2 pages, including references in teen-tiny font (and nigh-incomprehensible).

In this case, there's something similar: a lot of the information a CS paper might include inline has been shunted aside to "Supplemental Information includes one figure, three tables, and Supplemental Experimental Procedures and can be found with this article online
at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.05.076 ", and much of the background here (eg the development of the test battery) is in previous papers. This is more reporting the apex of their work, if you will.
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>Any assassination attempt at this point would create such a political backlash in the US that he is essentially untouchable

I'm not so sure about this. If he was assassinated, it would be reported as a suicide or an accident, and there would be a concerted effort online to label anything that questioned this narrative as being in the same realm as conspiracies about lizard people.
He wrote a bot to do the requests, they weren't manual, and he spoofed his user agent, it wasn't in-browser.

He then shared some of the private email addresses with various news agencies.
Another being that it's the only place in the state where you need a license to openly carry a firearm.
It's not so simple. I'm not aware of all the laws that would apply in this particular case, which is why I asked the question, but I know that in many jurisdictions there are laws against abuse of power and corruption. If a political official were to explicitly say "I am supporting Proposition X because it will return some benefit to my benefactors," would that not be a criminal offense? Granted, it's well-accepted that such is the norm in politics, but I don't think that means that it's not criminal. Many politicians have been charged with crimes like abuse of official capacity, bribery, and fraud, for similar actions.

I disagree with and resent both your claim that my question is stupid and your claim that the recourse for a broken political system is becoming more involved in elections.
Just chiming in to say I'm happy to see the use of the word "tsundere" increasing in English.
Pinterest is the only one of those companies whose success was close to immediate. Uber, Facebook, Youtube all had to grind it out. Uber battled (and still is) many legal challenges; YouTube almost went the way of Napster early on; and Facebook was an underdog to MySpace for a long time.
The low-information customer you're describing is a totally different animal than the person we're discussing here. I agree with you as far as it goes, but OP is a security-conscious developer.

Jennifer Lawrence has a different problem. Apple can't really help her either.
> But disobeying laws that were enacted via legal means and do not violate human rights crosses a line.

But I do think these taxi laws blatantly violate human rights.
May help with memory 'may' being key and only low amounts with low alcohol content of 2.5% and so far only it's only been studied using rats.

People who drink regularly drink too much alcohol and people who rarely or don't drink won't drink enough since the study said it had to be every day at low amounts.
Damn, that means it doesn't even show any creativity. How do you know that's how it was spoofed, though?
Just comparing the magnitudes of scale at which our brain operate compared to transistors tell you that AI doesn't stand a chance of coming anywhere close. The difference is that we are processing directly on the physical laws, while computers have any additional layer of abstraction in between, which are transistors.
I don't know why the GP poster is being downvoted. For most of the world's population, $500 is not cheap.

I find it difficult to categorize the desk, a tool for productivity, as a luxury. I know that's just personal bias speaking, though.

The market supplies alternatives of varying degrees of quality, functionality, and design for ordinary desks. I wish there was equal demand for standing desks. Nothing ever seems to bring down the prices for them.
I'm not sure a rookie could build a social network platform together with a distributed revenue system on top of it, without having ever been exposed to what SSL is, because that'd be the only excuse for not implementing it, unless they are really doing this to make people talk about them.
I remember reading "Computing Across America" on Compuserve back in the eighties, as it was happening. At first I wasn't sure whether it was a true story or an elaborate fiction. Reading the stories written in raw ASCII code on an 8-switch handlebar chording keyboard, and downloaded through my 1200-bps modem with its flickering red LEDs, as the words appeared on a slow-phosphor amber monitor, I really felt like I was living in the future, and everything was possible.
You're spot on. I know of the author of the article (Austin is a small scene), and he is basically an MBA type who has been stuck playing startup the last 4 years. He has effectively made 0 progress in that time and it took over 3 years just to launch the MVP. Think about that...3+ years to launch anything working at all (before that they just had a splash page for years littered with hyperbole). In fact they "launched" quite recently and the product is pretty bad. They're burning through money and time like it's nothing. Several classmates that were involved somewhat early on realized what a joke it was and cut all ties to the thing.
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I recently built myself a standing desk using an Ikea shelf for the base, which was around 2.5' and using floor flanges and conduit to raise the desktop to the height I needed. I love it. Some tips:
- get an anti-fatigue mat to stand on.
- Ikea desktops should not be cut to fit unless necessary. I needed to lop about a foot off, and was surprised that the core was literally cardboard.
- consider adjustable feet below the desk to fine-tune the height for your needs, then use commodity parts for the rest. It's MUCH simpler than trying to rethread pipe.
So the problem with revolutions is that there is usually little thought given to the system of order that will replace the current system - people are unhappy with the current one and they want change now. Historically, the result is something that ends up being worse than the original because the sudden loss of order has unintended second and third order effects. Dan Carlin has some great insights into this, with lots of historical examples. I would argue it's generally a good thing the government moves so slowly on things - as frustrating as it can be - the Founders intentionally set it up that way. In this case, it's hugely important that the press has re-gained some of its function as an investigative agency, as opposed to the role it took in the post-9/11 world as too often a mouthpiece of the powers that be. Awarding the Pulitzer is not something to be taken so lightly.

In the end, the people at the NSA still have a job to do (because people crave security), and whether or not you agree with their methods, will do whatever they think is necessary (within the bounds of the law, as they interpret it) to protect the country. If we take away the tools that Snowden exposed, do you really believe they will stop coming up with new surveillance methods? They will still manage to find ways to do their job, which you probably would not agree with either, but we would feel more secure knowing they're out there doing it. It's part of the social contract that we have with the government.

Like Snowden, I used to be a part of this community, and I would echo his early comments on how almost all the people he worked with did care about making the world better and were generally good people. These people are our family, friends, and neighbors. We vilify these agencies, but what I think Snowden is really trying to expose is how the entire system is set up in such a way that creates these incentives for national leadership and agencies to do these things. That system changed dramatically after 9/11, but I believe (and I'm sure Snowden believes) the system can be brought back to a more balanced state, it just has to be done slowly.

So maybe I'm too optimistic, but I don't believe rapid change is the answer we're looking for.
>Also, the Reynolds number will be completely different for a model aircraft compared to a full-sized aircraft, so they will behave quite differently aerodynamically.

For low speeds, maybe. For high speeds, you're well into the high Reynolds number turbulent regime. I've worked on R/C aircraft designs and I'm reasonably sure we got decent results with inviscid aerodynamics. At sea level, you're going to see Re in the millions.

Regarding the Square-Cube law, I'm not sure it's that relevant here. It's pretty clear you could put two of those engines in a AMA sized model, so not exceeding 55 lbf. That'd give you a thrust-to-weight ratio of greater than 1.0.
It will be interesting seeing Uber like services go up against the Australian Taxi cartel. I would expect similar antics...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7WdSFS3SFI
Yeah but they don't have an automatic veto before legislation goes into effect. As he said, they only examine the issue, if at all, years later.
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