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Based on his picture, Steve Patterson is one of the younger grumpy old white men I have seen. He has also rediscovered that “Screw you, rules. I’ll paint whatever I damn well choose" is an attitude contained inside of art.
Thanks. This has been on the timeline for several years now. Nice to see that it finally hit.

IIRC, there were some other nice things that this enabled as well.
Faster code for same end result is:

xor r0, r0
OneNet: High Performance Distributed Functional Computing Platform [pdf]
Don't think of it at the program level.

Think of it at a smaller level.

Even optimizing, say, a single "trivial" function in a widely used library can have large effects overall.
They apparently have an office in SF these days but they also have an office in Cambridge. They're also still the MIT Alumni magazine. Honestly, they get wrapped up in the hype for new technologies sometimes but they seem a pretty reliable source for technology news overall. They are technology optimists and are in the business of writing about new technologies but it's easy to cherry-pick articles that get overly enthusiastic. By contrast, a recent cover story delved into troll hunting for example.
>There is never a time when the full audience is giving the film their full attention.

There is probably also never a time when the full audience actually wants to be there. I would guess that for most couples attending a given movie, one person wanted to see it a lot more than the other.
As noted above by BrainInAJar, vdev removal just hit the Illumos ZFS tree. So, the ink is barely dry on it as well.
Ceci n'est pas une article
Thanks for sharing this Steve. It hits home just at the right time. Which is to say that my mind is attempting to recognize patterns within the chaos (whether they are there or aren't there).

It also touches on a few themes from one of my favorite books, "I am a Strange Loop" by Douglas Hofstadter...And you mention Derrida who had a profound impact on my thought process and development. La Différance did a lot for my understanding of the world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diff%C3%A9rance
Didn't know about "onebillion" (https://onebillion.org/), thanks.

Building schools in Africa is a metaphor of my actual "volunteering" desire: if I had infinite or just enough capital I would prefer to invest it in infrastructure and technology: building renewable energy power plants, internet connectivity to rural areas, research labs, etc.

Education is very important but most third world countries could benefit much more from technological self-sufficiency and expertise.
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Having one small part of your business print money often masks atrocious management schemes. They purchased the Dota IP and had the creator start the team right? Good on them for not fucking it up, but they already had a hit and just ported it.

What great ideas have come out of Valve in recent history?
I also think runtime information is critical. Integrated specialized JITs and hinted binary translation might be the solution. Especially considering the pace new instructions have been added lately.

Maybe superoptimization databases for some common sequences.
> A 1992 World Bank evaluation of Colombia’s schools concluded that poor youngsters educated this way — learning by doing, rather than being endlessly drilled for national exams — generally outperformed their better-off peers in traditional schools.

Given learning by 'doing' is known to be worse I wonder if they have hit some sort of local maxima.
Oddly the article is mostly attacking a style of art that doesn't even have anything to do with postmodernism in philosophy, and predates it by decades. Jackson Pollock is mainly a 1940s painter developing and responding to early 20th century trends in painting, not some kind of time-traveling artistic disciple of Jacques Derrida. You might as well throw in Picasso, Malevich, and Kandinsky if you want to criticize the 20th-century trend towards abstraction and non-representational painting.
Would You Send Your Kids to a School Where Students Make the Rules?
Murakami is one of those authors that has good enough style, culture and influences that at first they come of as quite profound, and at the same-time are pleasant to read in a way that say Kafka or Dostoevsky are not - then about half-way through the novel you realize it's a cheap knock-off to sell profundity to the general public.
> We are certainly living in the most peaceful period since the start of the 20th century.

Well, no. We're living in a period with less frequent very-high-casualty battles than WWI, WWII, and the Chinese Civil War, to be sure, but that's true of all the parts of the 20th century before, between, and after those wars, as well.
Mainstreaming of Airbnb, as Seen Through Descriptions in New York Times Stories
There's a study on red light cameras in Chicago that shows some interesting data about what affects they have on driving behaviour and accident rates

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/watchdog/redlight/ct-red-...
The well-known fact that WebKit has an origin story in KHTML is completely irrelevant to the point being made. Apple was the one who put substantial engineering effort into making the mobile web work well, and released their work with the most open licenses they could.
"John Spicer notes: “Any program written using export can be rearranged trivially into a program that doesn’t use export.”"

This makes me wonder why they couldn't have implemented this rearrangement as export...
I agree, but I think 7) a great team, is missing from that list. It really helps avoid problems with 1, 2, 4 and 5. For some markets, 3 media vitality, isn't required and if you get the other things right you need less luck.
My dad took me and my sister to see Aliens in the theater, when I was ten or so. At about 15 minutes into the opening scene I suggested to my dad that maybe we didn't need to see it, and we left. When I was a little older we rented it as a video, and it's been one of my favorite movies ever since.
Could someone TLDR what is it all about?

I stopped reading at empty canvases, this is hardly original, first empty canvas exhibition was 90 years ago in Paris.
Deirdre McCloskey (an economist) has an entire book devoted to this[1]. Her article here: http://www.deirdremccloskey.com/docs/jsm.pdf covers the main argument in the book. One important point she makes is that not all fields misuse p-values and statistical significance. In physics significance is almost always used appropriately, while in social sciences (including economics) statistical significance is often conflated with actual significance.

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> On the other hand, can't you still say most of new art around us is post-modern?

No. Well, you can, but its equivocation: its certainly something that arises in the period after the height of the movement called "modernism", hence, it is "post-modern" in that sense, but its not part of the particular movement which has been labelled "post-modernism".

> Because else what would it be? Have we got anything after postmodernism?

Yes, in both art and philosophy, there are a number of contemporary movements that are active, many of which postdate postmodernism in their origins.
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People have been working around the limitations of lvm and Linux raid for years... it's not such a big deal. The issue with BTRFS is the stability and consistent performance, especially when the disk gets close to being full.

Would definitely prefer BTRFS to be stable over having additional features...
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RAID5/6+ is only as fast as your slowest disk, and seek times are no better. In most respects, mirroring gets you better performance, and for most drive configurations, is more reliable than RAID5. Massive throughput on single files one at a time is not interesting to most people with big storage requirements.

I currently run RAID6 (raidz2) across 10 drives. But I'll be moving to RAID10 before long. Whether using zfs or not, depends on btrfs stability.
About 150 pedestrians are killed in NYE annually, that's one every other day in a city where relatively few people own cars.
How well does such a solution scale up? You need to keep the requirements low enough that it runs on mobile CPUs, but if it becomes widespread enough, doesn't it make sense for a bot farm to pick up a Bitcoin mining ASIC to grind out the hashes for them?
Fantastic, thanks!

I wonder, is there a name for this genre?
RED is Hollywood-class, though towards the lower end. A lot of big-name movies that you've heard of include scenes shot on RED cameras: http://www.red.com/shot-on-red. The TV show Leverage was shot entirely on a pair of RED Xs.

RED's stuff is on the order of $25k. The main player for digital cinema is Arri ALEXA, on the order of $50k. It's not that far off.
Good journalism is expensive compared to what we are seeing in this trend. We have to figure out a way to either lift the "casual journalist" into the limelight, or find a way to pay for good journalism. Or maybe a bit of both. It seems that the really good media companies aren't going away, but most of the others are struggling. I don't look forward to having only a few good media outlets dominate, so we need fix that.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem

If you were in the situation above, what choice would you make? I'm legitimately curious, as I do not know many people that seem to think in moral absolutes.
That credit should probably go to Google, and to a lesser extent to Firefox (which at least tried).

Google used the strong weight of Youtube to make sure all web browsers implemented a replacement, a long and tiresome process that took the better part of ten years. They bought companies and gave patents away along the way.

I'm not sure exactly what Apple did. Please enlighten me.
It always bugged me that one of the more important scenes was cut out of the shorter version: the two-minute scene where Ripley learns her daughter grew old and died while Ripley was in cryosleep. It's short, and it provides the entire motive for Ripley in the last third of the film - saving Newt as a surrogate for her own daughter.
Just the community.
I think the actual difficulty is patents. From what I remember, once Oracle bought Sun, they decided to go after netapp for infringing on ZFS. As it turned out, Oracle was infringing on NetApp's patent but NetApp had let it slide because until Oracle started being a dick, it was mutually beneficial. That is why Oracle also started BTRFS and is putting it's development behind that instead.

I'm not really sure where that leaves other commercial projects (especially OSX which is badly in need of a functional file system).
I was given a Firefox OS phone at Mozfest last year. I lost my other phone earlier this year and so used it exclusively for four weeks. I'm sorry to say it's pretty terrible at this stage. I was using v2 of Firefox OS.

The problems are broadly that it was slow, unreliable and poorly designed. It would just become completely unresponsive a couple of times a week, requiring the battery to be removed to restart. There are very few well known apps. Twitter seems to be the only one, and it was so slow for scrolling that I gave up using it. The included apps were just placeholders to install apps, almost all of them only worked online. I wouldn't recommend getting one to anybody. I'm sure you could buy a cheap secondhand Android and have a better experience. It was worse than Android 1.6.

There's such a huge mountain of work for the Mozilla developers to get this to be in anyway competitive to Android. I think Mozilla would be better to concentrate their resources elsewhere.
A college's ultimate goal isn't for their students to get good grades and test well.

A college's promise is to prepare students for life, and at present that means life in a diverse world.

Success beyond academia may be predicted well by SATs and high school grades in some fields, but certainly not all.
I help a lot of middle aged and elderly people who are not all that tech literate, and get asked a lot for recommendations, and I definitely think there is a niche for something between feature phones and smart phones. A lot of people are not interested in putting in the investment of time and money to get up to pace using Android or an iPhone. There's quite a big step to using those devices, for instance in managing data use, or in the way that phone functions recede amongst new smartphone features. With Android as a new user you can even for all intents and purposes lose your dialler, by pressing and holding the icon incorrectly.

iOS isn't interested in meeting that market, because of low cost, and if they did attempt it both Android and iOS might well suffer in trying to alter and dilute their brands and the unity of their interfaces.

It also works quite well as an target market, because a lot of the apps that would be expected are quite simple, and shouldn't be too difficult to create using web technologies - maybe news or magazine apps, cinema or TV listings, weather and so on.

Combine the right interface with a price of £50-£100, a good battery life, and a credible promise over security and privacy, and it definitely seems like an option which could get into the retail stores, and a place in the market of perhaps 2-3%, which is a good place to start.
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Do you really think keeping people in the dark about things they are supposed to want is a good things?

Are we now factory-farmed chicken (with our consent) and not humans?
right. 7) a great team is probably even more important than luck.
Get your code on for free
Yeah, I agree with that. I changed it to College, since that's more what I was talking about. Thanks!
Sorry, I made a mistake. I think it is:

static char s[] = * &"foo";

The c standard says char array initializers are either a string, or a string surrounded by optional '{}' .
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You don't have to label yourself postmodernist. Your own opinion about the direction of your art is irrelevant.

The thing is: we haven't got anything that is not post-modern. Postmodernism is about going in circles in my opinion, and that's what we do. Can't break out.
I've seen people shrink filesystems to clone whiteboxes, and I can see some use cases in the embedded world, though these probably aren't the places you want to use zfs or btrfs.
wtf tls? it's not about transport. it's about us not being able to read shit b/c you encrypted your key. i don't want your plaintext keys, so to prevent the nsl thing from happening.

also, nsl? we're german. meh. ;)

"trust us" sucks. period. we can agree on that. https://blog.whiteout.io/2014/06/12/how-we-operate/

we're trying to move away from storing stuff on our servers. more on that soon.

why pbkdf2? here's why: http://www.w3.org/TR/WebCryptoAPI/#pbkdf2
Firefox OS, being based on HTML/CSS/JavaScript, sounds a lot more hackable than Android to me. Well, you can hack Android pretty heavily - forking CyanogenMod, writing Xposed plugins, etc., but Java is just obscure and the compile/deploy/debug cycle is too cumbersome for casual hacking.

Hence I look forward to Firefox OS as platform I can easily hack, but I am not sure whether it really is. Could someone with experience tell me:

* How easy is it to deploy a FxOS app? How is the remote debugging experience?

* How easy is it to hack the core apps (e.g. phone, SMS)?

* How easy is it to hack the "framework" (e.g. window manager, status bar)? Is it even written in JavaScript?
If you tell people where the cameras are, you've also told them where the cameras AREN'T.

Ideally, for public safety, you'd want people to always think "there might a camera here".
> but this doesn't require setup per server.

Well you have to ssh to the serer a few times?
It's definitely the light. It's a black/blue dress but the sun makes it have a hint of gold.
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The reason the dress picture is interesting is that it is a real-world instance of the checkershadow illusion

http://web.mit.edu/persci/people/adelson/checkershadow_illus...
There is a very simple way to have a redundant ZFS pool that is expandable one disk at a time: use ditto blocks, see https://blogs.oracle.com/bill/entry/ditto_blocks_the_amazing...

- start with 2 disks (not a mirror, but 2 independent vdevs)

- set copies=2 to enable ditto blocks, causing data blocks to be automatically stored on 2 different disks (ZFS always tries to store ditto blocks on different vdevs when at least 2 are available)

- when adding a 3rd disk, each data block will continue to be stored on 2 different disks, and you have the option to add a 4th disk, 5th disk, etc, any time

The overhead is 50% (like RAID1/mirroring), so I presume this can be a downside for the hobbyist who usually cares about dollar per TB. But nonetheless this is an option.

I can see why hobbyists may want to expand a pool one disk at a time, but personally I have been running ZFS for 10 years, I have a 20TB fileserver at home (I grew it from 1TB over the years), and I have never needed to add just one disk at a time. Usually when I run out of space, I replace all the disks at once with larger ones (and/or replace the server if it is more than 4-6 years old).

Another point I wanted to comment on: the author makes the typical mistake of assuming ZFS on a single disk is not very interesting ("A VDEV is either a single disk (not so interesting)") but it is. To name a few features why it is still great to run on a single-disk system: end-to-end checksumming, self-healing, scrubbing, snapshots, clones, compression, ditto blocks, deduplication, CoW, zfs send/recv, simple CLI tools, etc.
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Without even looking inside the files, you can find the map, set, and list definitions.

Needing to look into a file called "utils.c" or "datastructures.c" is less clear than what it is currently imo, so I support your design.