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Not sure how it would ever be technically possible for a networked filesystem to get even near directly attached storage.
But, for sure, the typical carrier grade EMC or Netapp is MUCH slower then a good SAN. I'm talking about petabytes of very small (average maybe 20kB) files with lots of _random_ sync writes and reads. NFS has a lot of other benefits, but it surely is not super high performance in every usecase. Regardless of what a theoretical marketing whitepaper has shown in some lab setup.

Someone who thinks that you can put a network protocol around a filesystem without _any_ performance impact is nuts.

BUT if your usecase fits NFS you might as well get very good performance out of it. As always, pick the right technology for your specific case.
Nightfall might have a somewhat similar plot, discovery of the universe by otherwise unsuspecting population of a planet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightfall_%28Asimov_short_story...
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The thing is the performance isn't exactly erratic.

It's purely a function of the cooling available and the target skin temperature. This doesn't mean you can't "trust" it.

It just means you should do what you should have -always- done which is buy machines in metal chassis (and of reasonable size) if you want passive cooling or get a machine with a decent thermal design and active cooling (fans).

Trying to spin this into FUD seems a little desperate.
I was joking. The question is if because that is invalid, if the disclaimer is invalid too.
Which begs the question, how are they really making their money?
I don't join any conference calls and hate being interrupted by the phone, but I can see how this would be really useful for people who need it. Great idea.

The site is neatly but not over-designed and clearly explained the proposition which is something a lot of startups struggle to do well. I didn't have to watch a video or read buckets of text.

My one suggestion would be to revise this paragraph while you're US only:

"No matter what conference call service you use, Callr can connect you. There is no need to get a new number or fancy URL.*"

The asterisked footnote demotes the "no matter what" making it seem like a clear exaggeration. Perhaps have "We support popular US conference call services without the need to get a new number or fancy URL. (If you're outside the US, get in touch and we'll let you know when we expand!)"
The parent comment and some of the child comments are implying you need to be physically near the system, which doesn't seem to be true.

You still need to find a way to execute code on the target system (also called "getting a shell"), but this can be done over the wire, too.
I just tested it again. XFS now works. It did not work the most recent time I tried (within the past 12 months). The only change in my preseed file I made to test the change was the expert_recipe stanza for /, from ext4 filesystem { ext4 } to xfs filesystem { xfs }.

Thanks for getting me to test again. One less OS I have to deal with that can't do XFS properly.
I still remember the days when AMD was clearly outperforming Intel. But these days are over.
I'd love a keybase.io invite if still have any spare - email in profile.
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A few have asked when I'm going to offer CentOS 7. My reply? When it actually works with my deployment system properly and isn't a colossal buggy mess, and actually works with the software you (my customers) use (a lot of things have not announced CentOS 7 support for the same reasons I have, its a buggy mess).
A big label on the page saying "Not really, FF is rock-solid. Have a nice day HN!"?
OK, then why do the fund managers don't just move elsewhere? The flaw in your argument is that you assume that investment services are a commodity, which obviously they aren't, otherwise everybody wouldn't have to be frothing about how some managers make better returns than others.
Can you do a simple time sh -c "dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=8k count=11000"; rm testfile

"performance" test?

Also do the read test on a really big file, first from your host - so the file will get cached, then from within the qemu-vm where virtfs plan9 is mounted, dd if=bigfile of=/dev/null

Please, I want to confirm its not only my machines suffering from really totally shitty read/write performance thru virtfs?
As lousy as No Child Left Behind is, it annoys me how many people have completely forgotten that it was a reaction to terrible schools that couldn't be fixed, not the invention of them. Everyone just conveniently blames everything on those stupid tests now.
Here's my own version of an iterating chunker (itertools needed imports omitted).

def chunks_of(it, n):
return takewhile(len, imap(list, imap(islice, repeat(it), repeat(n))))

But this library functions adds error checking and are more expressive (I wrote the above and always have to look at it lenghty to understand it).

I've not paid much attention yet to the license scheme, but if it's friendly to be used on commercial projects, I might take the plunge.
At first I was kind of excited about the Apple watch but I don't normally wear a watch. I was mainly interested in the health tracking features and notifications.

I just started using a Fitbit watch and have realized it's a much cheaper alternative that meets most of my requirements.
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But the important part isn't annual return, it's annual return compared to similarly risked options. Which are in the 7-8% range for the last 10 years depending on when you start counting.

I'm paying you to beat the average - I can achieve the average myself, at a lower risk by just investing evenly across the board.

If the funds delivered 8.24%, and matching S&P would have gotten me 7.5%, then you're in fact keeping 15% of what you gambled for. And if you had delivered 7.0% I would have eaten that loss compared to the average.
Yes, it was huge, and made up of a lot of units independently. They used to joke that the company was a technology vendor's delight, since they weren't very strict with what technology a department can choose to use, leading to finding a bit of almost every vendor somewhere. When I was there they had a push towards centralising IT between the divisions, providing common services and support to get economies of scale. I suspect this is a cyclical trend over decades.
Windows is able to get drivers itself over the network. Unless the ethernet driver is missing to, which happens most of the time.
Awesome work, bookmarking this !
If only Apple undertook this for OSX.

In latest Yosemite, three-finger-click definition lookups, map tiles, and even some geod location communications are still unencrypted in flight. The whole Starbucks knows what words you look up, what map locations you view, et c.

Added bonus: definition lookups happen for every Spotlight search now, too.

It is amazing that in 2015 this is not standard policy everywhere people care about security (which should be any organization that touches PII or develops software for use by more than 10 people).
From my own benchmark, on kernel Linux 3.19.3.201503270049-1-grsec, qemu 2.2.1, 9p was 500% slower on read and immensily - after 9min gave on the write test which took 29s on host.
USB sticks go in a lot of things that aren't the laptops the ultra-wealthy constantly upgrade every 18 months.

I've got equipment with USB ports on it that can only read FAT32.

Transitions take time. Unfortunately both MSFT and APPL practice the fine art of "Don't improve your own product, hamper your competitors' efforts" as a way to maintain their respective kingdoms.
I got persuaded to join a start up full time, one I co founded years before joining the bank. In retrospect I should have remained at the bank.
The serious clients who have the money you are looking for, are not going to hire a random guy in Thailand based on a forum comment.

At your suggested rate, these clients will be able to get an on-location contractor with significantly more experience (think 10-15 years). I.e. No hassle with international payments, timezones and what not.

Compare that to what you are suggesting: A very high cost (150 USD an hour) at a very high risk (completely unknown resource). This makes it a highly unappealing business proposal.

For you to get that rate while being remote, you need to have already established yourself with such clients, i.e. You need to have worked for them before and built a lot of trust.
Really puzzled how this is the top item on the Hacker News front page.
What good is the standard implementation if the gcc guy responds with WONTFIX?
Trapping signals in Docker containers
Hackpad Code removed back from GitHub
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You are right - we now know that half of the heat in the core is from fission!
In the same vein as the other sci-fi responses... Fritz Leiber's "A Pail of Air" stuck in my mind, hard, as a kid. Earth flung off into interstellar space, ensuing hijinks. http://www.baenebooks.com/chapters/0743498747/0743498747___6...
I can set the file format in Windows 7 to NTFS or exFAT. Works with any USB key bought in the last few years.

Windows XP had no problems reading NTFS.
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Readable for every recent OS, but apparently not writable by Mac OSX.
I remember trying Hackpad when it first popped up here on HN. I signed in with my Google account and was surprised to find that it had pulled a photo of me to use as my avatar—a photo that I had never knowingly put online. Nothing bad, just a Christmas photo, but it was personal and not meant to be plastered on the web. Being privacy-conscious, I had always tried to keep photos of me off of the internet.

At this time there wasn't any way to change your profile picture through the web interface. I tried to get in touch but never received any replies. My face was stuck there on my profile, and there was nothing I could do about it.

Just checked and the picture was still there. There's a "Change profile picture" link now, but it seems to be broken: uploading a new picture does nothing. At least you can delete your account now, which I've done.

Hackpad is a great tool, and I wish them the best with the open source release, but this is the experience that has stuck in my mind. Don't pull photos from people's accounts without asking for permission, especially not for public display.

(I'm still not sure where the photo came from, as I could never find it on my Google account. I suspect some misconfigured Windows Phone privacy / contact syncing setting was the culprit.)
I traditionally use exFat to go between Windows and OSX seamlessly, however I recently had to reformat to FAT32 to use it in a Sony DVD player
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I generally think open sourcing software is a good thing. But what does it me to the project in this case? Is Hackpad droped by Dropbox?
Some Apple Watch pre-orders won't ship until August
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I find AMD's decline a little sad, but Intel has plenty of reasons to keep improving their products. Even though their fab tech is ≈18 months ahead of everyone, they can't seem to get a foothold in the mobile space. Cheap, low-power, ARM-based SoCs dominate mobile. ARM-based laptops are making inroads (Chromebooks), and there's a good chance they'll start getting into the server market. Intel makes the fastest, most efficient x86 CPUs, but fewer and fewer people are stuck on that architecture. If nobody needs x86, Intel's only differentiator is their fab advantage, which they could easily lose.
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Why? If we just want to follow the market, then we only occasionally need to adjust our positions in response to dilution or buyback events, right? Executing large trades efficiently is hard, but with a low turnover it's less of a problem.
When it detected noscript, it replaced the page with this:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0">AAAA.........

...as displayed with ^U, except the "AAAA...." wasn't visible until I pasted it in this text box. I'm not sure, but I suspect the length of the AAAAs was growing rapidly. There's a lot of memory and more than one core on this system, so I think I killed the tab, which appeared only as a blank page, before it became too destructive.
LWN suggests storage manufacturers have been optimising for FAT32, so even if other file systems were more widely supported, they typically won't be as fast:
https://lwn.net/Articles/428584/
I could agree with that for the most part, but I have a hard time seeing how there can be no one anywhere in Sony who had anything to do with Sony's decisions.

Also, I've read a fair number of proxy statements, but I've never had a chance to vote on what sort of lobbying they should do or what projects they should work on.
I think you will need 100% manual review to find those 0.5%
"Available to ship: June"
This is a good question. After too many years experience of fighting with build systems, I have come up with one overarching requirement - the build system needs to be debuggable. I need to be able to easily identify why a particular file was built. I need to be able to easily recover the command line that builds a generated file, as in if I know that I have a source file called foo.c, I need to be able to easily obtain the command line that compiles foo.c to foo.o, so that I can see the options that were used.
I need to be able to easily see how variables are constructed. Something like being able to put a watch on them, so I can find the lines of build files that modify them.

You need these things because you know what? One day someone else is going to want to modify your build system, to cross-compile for another target device, or to build a library instead of an executable, or to add a configuration option, or whatever. Or they are going to find that they need to optimise the build because it's too slow. And without these tools, those tasks are ridiculously complicated.

And lastly, it, would be wonderful if I could take an autotools or pure-makefile based project, and convert it to this system with a simple import statement - the resulting project build file wouldn't need to be particularly beautiful, because, with all those other tools that I listed above, I could clean things up by hand after the import.

The bad news is that as far as I am aware, no such tool exists. I assume it must be a hard problem to solve, because the pain that build systems cause is a real and ongoing concern for millions of developers around the world.

If you're the sort of person that writes these types of system, I would be your customer. Make the basic build system - where you can create and build projects - free, and make the debugging tools something that you have to pay for. I for one would be your customer.

All of which leads me to the bad news: I've never yet encountered a system that does these things, which is why I needed to include a plea to someone to make one.
Interesting to see that they do not have technical specs on their store pages (e.g, http://store.apple.com/us/buy-watch/apple-watch-sport?produc...)
I'm amazed that in 2015 every application has to implement its own encryption.

Why doesn't the OS let us open "encrypted sockets"?
I recently was having trouble with backing up photos from a terabyte usb drive between ubuntu and mac os (which couldn't write to it). I was using NTFS which was the best choice (for the last decade).

Looks like exFat support has improved the last few years, so I bit the bullet, moved the data off and reformatted. Now working great on both OSs. I wish it were open sure, and I hear UDF is a possibility too, but stopped when it started working.
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PHP:

for($i=0;$i<100;$i++) echo 100-$i."\n";
Odd. My USB drives use ext4.
If you're being practical, the FUSE driver is just a PPA away on Ubuntu and works fine in my experience. I've switched over all my external media to exFAT, including my external hard drive with virtual BD-ROM functionality.
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Mac OS and Linux cannot write to NTFS without 3rd party software.
Our community has to shoulder part of the blame for the lack of adoption of HTTPS in many governments both federal and local. In my jobs at two different universities they both expressed vague concerns of "We heard that it hinders performance" as a reason to nix doing it.

This should never have been a conversation about performance and it was the technical folks making it one of performance. The only issue raised should have been about proper certificate management.

Fortunately at the university we pushed through https on the product despite the pushback, but it never would have even been a struggle in the first-place if not for the focus on the wrong metric.
I agree with the UI "progress". Lion and Mountain Lion were the biggest changes for me; Mavericks and Yosemite are alright to my eyes (although they took some getting used to).

I have a USB disk with Snow Leopard on it that I can boot on my work's 2008 Mac Pro but that kernel panics on my 2012 MacBook Pro due to the i7 "from the future" according to Snow Leopard. It's a pity because it'd make a really great test system (I would like to check that my software runs on 10.6 OK).

Does anyone know of a way of booting Snow Leopard from disk inside a VM without many kernel kext kerfuffles? Parallels tells me that I stink if I try and install OSX inside it (I have the regular DVD, not the server edition)
Yeah, but "I took on the undesirable task of fixing all the shitty excel cleaning because no one else was going to do it" isn't going to score you many points in a job interview.
Transcription:

"Hi Hackpad admin!

We have some exciting news — Hackpad will be released as open source software in the next few weeks!

As you may know, Hackpad started as a fork of an existing open source project. We’re incredibly proud to give back to this community and excited to make the Hackpad codebase available to anyone, especially our customers.

As the open source release approaches, we’ll send you instructions on how to download your Hackpads in case you want to move your data somewhere else. (Don’t worry; you’ll still be able to keep your data on hackpad.com.)

If you have questions or just want to chat, drop us a line at hackpad-oss@dropbox.com.

-Alex, Igor, Mime, Julia and the Hackpad Team"
You can easily save one more character. The problem doesn't say anything about newlines.
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Must be my inaccurate conclusions then! I must just be seeing the hatred for C++, typically with 1998 examples attached to illustrate how "dangerous" the language is.
I bet the sky would look very different to them, too. If they did evolve eyes at all, it would probably only be in order to detect thermal radiation from other life forms on the planet; so infrared, microwave, and/or radio frequencies, but not visible light. They may even be able to plainly see the cosmic microwave background with the naked eye. It might even be blindingly bright to them.
Why are you using a locking read on a million+ row table?

Why are you doing a naive join between million+ row tables?

Is the point here that your product is better than a badly-implemented database on its own?
Discussion of previous article:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9335441
I wish the regular threading interface was as nice as gevents. Gevents is stunningly simple to use for a lot of simple things where I find trying to use the threading library (I.e. when you want to deal with paramiko) is much harder.
Siblings comments nailed it. Sometimes it's just the easiest solution.

In the case of my tv, it doesn't support wireless, and installing cables is out of the question.

There might be other ways, but honnestly I'm fine with copying bulk medias from to to time on a physical storage
Interesting, the patent http://www.google.com/patents/US8583708 sounds like SSL certificate "Critical Extensions" but applied to filesystems.
A circuit-breaker is basically a type of relay. Many early computers used relays.

Anything that can be set in two states, and the state of it can be read back, can be used as binary memory.
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BSD, go nuts!
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There's have to be a hardware mod if a firmware password is enabled. It prevents booting from any other media or partition without a password.
Women's watches have been a hard sell since as long as I can recall.(20-30 years?) I don't know why, but high end women's watches(Rolex, even Patek) are a bargain in the secondary markets.

I feel the Iwatch will eventually be very popular with women.
I think it might be the Swatch of the millennial--even baby boomer generation.

I'm usually wrong on predicting anything, but why would Apple push this product through(without any redesigns) after
all the backlash it has received since they introduced this product?

(In all honesty, I really wanted to like this watch. I'm a self taught Horologist who has been working/buying mechanical watches for at least 15 years.)
Why not have both? E.g. a simple description at the top of the page, and a more advanced discussion below.
How would that differ from opening up a TLS connection?
or

for($i=0;;) echo 100-$i>0?100-$i++."\n":exit;
I guess this could be related to my question I asked some time ago on SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25668600/is-1-0-a-valid-o...
This isn't what you want to hear, but there are perfectly valid reasons for them to do that.

1. Getting the answer right is only half the problem here. They are prodding you for your thought process—take that as a sign that that's what they're actually looking for, even if you're wrong. They also want to hear it just in case they need to steer you in the right direction.

Regardless of pairing policies, companies might ask you to collaborate on a problem with someone else. It is typically more productive if both developers are engaged in conversation about it and then working as opposed to doing their own work separately.

2. It's incredibly awkward and tense as an interviewer to sit there for 10 minutes. Also, how do I know it'll only be ten minutes?

If I wanted to know if you could solve a problem in your ideal setting, then I would email you a problem to solve on your own time. During an interview, however, I want to have a conversation. I only have one hour with you and your ten minutes of silence is a wasted opportunity.
That might be the screw (hold if push, moved if twisted). Though I suppose a screw could be seen as a very basic kind of lock.
Yeah, that's the issue

Nobody buys desktops anymore. Profits are falling

Mobile is the new competition area. And if Intel wants to sell x86 there they'll have to earn it.
If data can help win elections, what can it do for your business?
I think my minimalist is probably too simple - my reaction to your first example is that if the legs weren't tapered or there wasn't that inset lower base, or the legs were removed or it had inset rather than jutting handles - then that would be minimal.

But Google images suggests minimal is pretty loose! I guess it's relative.
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"In Linux everything else is better"

This is entirely subjective; it is not a wise comment to make because it is better FOR YOU, not for everyone. For me, I liked the configurability in Linux desktop land but there comes a time when you want to sit in your office and get stuff done instead of spending all the time moving the furniture around and decorating; OSX doesn't let you do any decorating or move the furniture, so you're forced to do work (to some extent).

I daily use Linux, yet my day-job is to write software on OSX and Windows, so I get to use every system every day. They're all pretty much a muchness.