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If you can only "use them where applicable" then is the HTTP spec really mapping well to Dropbox's requirements?

And if it doesn't map perfectly, it's not really mapping at all. So why pretend to be following the standards if you have to hack around it when HTTP methods are not applicable?
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Feynman's friend Ralph Leighton wrote about Felnman's long-standing desire to go there [1]. The BBC Horizon programme had an episode called "The Quest for Tannu Tuva" [2] which might be on youtube.

[1] http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tuva-Bust-Richard-Feynmans-Journey/d...

[2] http://sciencek.com/video/1151/horizon-1988x25-the-quest-for...
Great work. Looks like Dublin, Ohio is getting categorised as Ireland though: http://whereis-whoishiring-hiring.me/country/2015/3/Ireland
I think more parents-and-grandparents' generation. Grandparents' generation is a bit more decorative IMO.
That was on our roadmap.

We felt that one of the strong differentiators was how much control we gave to forum owners to shape the structure and identity of their space.

What we had planned was to focus on one market such that we'd have a small critical mass within that niche... in our case cycling forums which tend to exist with geographic focus yet have shared needs we could fulfil... and then create a directory from that to answer a "Find your local cycle forum" question before later making that question much broader.

We knew from feedback that "community", "shared interests", "forum"... all these things are nebulous and vague, they say nothing to anyone. Offering a directory and creation method would fail because no-one searched for those things, and no-one created those things.

We chose one segment to do well, from which we could expand into the other segments nearby (all sports and recreation interests), before expanding into entirely unrelated spaces.

We had a plan, but it required time and growth to execute.
But that is even worse, right?

That is paying a fixed price for someone to gamble for you.

If you look at it objectively, a more sane pricing model would be that you get a discount on the flat fees compared to what you would pay for a non-managed fund, but with a bonus paid on earnings.

The value proposition from the fund managers is that they can significantly outperform a non-managed fund. If that is true, then what they lack is capital to actually play on a large enough scale (if they had the capital they would just play with their own money after all). Pension funds have a large amount of capital that they want to accrue interest on.

The win-win scenario is that the fund managers agree to handle the money at a lower cost than what having them in some form of indexed managed would be, but that in return they take a share of any profits that are generated.

If you just add on a flat % fee that is higher than what the indexed fund would charge, then the fund manager isnt assuming any risk.
In my country, a popular example of such equipment that can only read FAT32 are devices built to access subscription satellite TV illegaly.
Because they have $3 trillion in assets under management - which is $600m a year even at 2 basis points in fees, which not everyone pays. Economies of scale ramp up quickly.
If you read them in the order they were written, you will also be reading them in chronological order of their setting, if that makes sense. They are specifically not set in the same universe, but they portray different stages of posthuman development, so I think that would be a good way to read them. You can see the development of egan's own thinking along the way. Also this is ordering by increasing weirdness/hardness of ideas, which is probably a good idea too.

That being said, I read disapora first, then permutation city, and that was fine.
Dave Chinner works for Red Hat, and XFS is the default FS on the most popular commercial Linux distro. Seems like winning.

If you mean, "why didn't it win earlier?" it's probably a combination of ext3 being good enough (particularly when multi-spindle, large partition environments were less common for Linux users), Reiser3 doing a great PR job (pity about the crappy filesystem...), and ext3 having better data integrity because Ted T'so didn't understand how his filesystem implementation worked (he fixed that with ext4).
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My guess would be for backward compatibility.
Just reformat it if you need something different.
Incidentally, one of the motivations behind the Bauhaus movement was to move against art nouveau's style that was impossible to mass produce. So they started using material that was easily available and designed furniture that could potentially be mass produced. See these for example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassily_Chair

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantilever_chair
If only there was some sort of Printer Command Language that would negate the need for these issues.....?

Or perhaps some form of scripting language that you could post, perhaps they could even call it PostScript?
Because moving 5GB over a standard internet connection takes a while.
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If you accelerate with g=9.81 m/s^2 then you'd need
(300M/9.81) seconds which is ~30581040 seconds ~ 8495 hours ~ 354 days, so you could at least accelerate with a moderate 1g in approx. 1 year to the desired velocity.

This calculation is probably wrong because Newtonian calculations are like that (wrong) when they get close to c.

However, it deserves bonus points for

+ having exactly earth's gravity in the ship

+ travelling "up" all the time, making you feel like in a huge elevator.

However, I'm not sure whether you'd consider 354d as fast enough :)
Sounds like Mirage OS / exokernels / unikernels, where the app is compiled to run directly on the VM talking to paravirtualized APIs.
Shouldn't there be a "client" in the title ?
The Vanguard fund mentioned in the article manages $200 billion assets and mirrors the returns of S&P 500. As mentioned in the comments here its "commission" is 0.02% for investors of the scale we're talking about.

How much more than that does one deserve for mirroring the market returns?
I'm in the UK, and "going to the DMV" is one of those US rituals I don't understand. We have one licensing office and interact with it entirely by post or Internet. Photo authentication can be done off the passport photo system.

Passport photo authentication is effectively crowdsourced, with a very British requirement that the person authenticating the photo be suitably middle class: https://www.gov.uk/countersigning-passport-applications
Pension funds these days do an awful lot of work to decide how to invest, and who to invest with. They send out RFIs which an awful lot of due diligence questions, have access to independent consultants to advise on active/passive strategies etc.

Active managers compete for business, and retaining clients even when performance is good is not easy. One of the key differentiators isn't just performance but client service - if you're investing $40bn of other people's pensions then you want to get good answers from your active investors about their thinking, where they see things going, risks, performance etc.

Oh and the best active managers charge relatively low fees, it is very much not a case of "you get what you pay for" - low fees and high assets under management is a much better money making model for everyone.
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Spoken like an Apple user.

"Who uses cable Ethernet these days" - I had to twice in the past year - a hotel in Germany that provided internet via a cable. And when the router decided to loose the WIFI password and I had to use an old laptop to physically connect.

I don't use USB sticks very often myself, but I am sure there are tons of scenarios where people find it useful. Just because it doesn't match any of your use cases is no justification.
No - it was a FAKE reaction to school problems.

Fake because it was not designed to work - it was designed to require essentially no new funds.

Solutions to school problems exist, are known and were not chosen.

Raise teacher pay, make teaching a desirable career. Provide good school food, provide homework assistance, provide school buildings with low noise levels, provide working ventilation to lower classroom CO2 levels, make sure buildings are not fungus-infected ... the list goes on and on.
I guess you don't have to charge it every f..n day too.
That's why I Carbon Copy Cloner'd my Snow Leopard partition to a USB HDD!

Pity I can't actually boot it on my 2012 i7 (kernel panics ahoy).

If anyone knows how to get around this, I would appreciate it as it would be truly marvellous to be able to test software that I've written under it.
People complain about the tests because they don't measure what the law presumes they measure. The law presumes all this testing reveals which schools and good teachers and which schools don't. Those tests suck at measuring that.

What they're great at measuring is which schools have the most kids in poverty and which schools don't.

Maybe it would be more sensible to reverse the law's provisions. Give schools which test poorly more money, not less. Use that money to mitigate the horrifying effects of student poverty.
Is a standard DVD not a little over 4GB?
FWIW the test server is also written in Go: https://github.com/github/lfs-test-server
It's even worse that every update makes you wonder if your FireWire interface and control software will ever work or run again, even though you're running on THE SAME HARDWARE as before; the OS update typically breaks it.
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I think there's something I'm missing about it. Usually, the most annoying part about 'important calls' is that they won't exactly be right on time & you'll have to wait starring at your phone for a couple of minutes. I don't see how this solve that problem.
Let's be honest, the most computationally intensive thing anyone does is to open Chrome and have 20 tabs each with five different Flash ads.

For the average user, it shouldn't matter what CPU they have in their machine. If their computer is slow, it's because that CPU is busy executing crapware.
NTFS-3G in at least Ubuntu derived distros work just as well as native file systems and comes in ready to use state, e.g. I didn't have to configure anything to read and write to my various partitions formatted in NTFS.
There is no POSIX make, POSIX is just a standard. What I mean is that you should only use features outlined in said standard. This allows you to use your makefiles on all makes that are POSIX conform.

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/ma...
The blame game is unhealthy. As long as our public discourse is about blaming parents, blaming teachers, or blaming anybody, we won't strike at the root of the problem, which is poverty. Kids living in poverty simply won't do well in school in statistically significant numbers. If we solve that, then we'll solve our achievement gap.
It isn't about old games, it is about new ones. They think by giving exceptions to old games it will make it more likely, easier, to give them to new games. Or that people will find it more acceptable.
I'm not sure what you mean by "3rd party software" with respect to Linux.

If you mean "not made by the Linux kernel or GNU projects", that applies to much (most?) of the software available for Linux.

If you mean "proprietary", then NTFS-3G is GPL: http://www.tuxera.com/community/open-source-ntfs-3g/
> Fake because it was not designed to work - it was designed to require essentially no new funds.

Isn't this policy a federal intervention? If school funding is an issue, why not increase it at state or local level?

> Known solutions to school problems exist,

You fogot to mention getting rid of teacher unions and starting evaluation of teacher performance. The idea of teacher tenure is simply insane!
Did you upgrade to an SSD? I have a 2012 MBP non-retina with a slow Toshiba drive in it (it seems it is entirely coincidental whether you'll get a Toshiba or Samsung in your new MacBook!) and I am considering upgrading to an SSD. I use BootCamp (periodic Windows gaming) and have a bunch of large VMs within OSX, so I would be interested in how the upgrade went and where to look, how to clone my disk etc. etc.
Take a look at this table:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems#Sup...

and compare the number of green cells for each filesystem, specifically how "green" (ie compatible) it is.
On this subject, from the finserve side: https://medium.com/bull-market/a-cynic-s-guide-to-fintech-3c...

The author applies heavy skepticism, but does rate some of the fintech business models as worthwhile.
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1. Studies that say "XX% of active managers don't beat an index" include every tiny poorly managed fund. The best attractive lots of capital; Bridgewater has $169 billion under management and has a long track record of large outperformance.

The second study linked found

Only 0.6% — you read that right, 0.6% — showed any true skill at beating the market consistently, “statistically indistinguishable from zero,” the three researchers concluded.

So your cavets, whilst valid, I don't think go anywhere near disputing the central point.
Such beautiful cases too!
As always, XKCD explains it best: https://xkcd.com/949/
While this sounds good in theory, this encourages high-risk investments, that either pay-off enormously or lose everything.
I recall the same pain with Vista - booting to an empty desktop saw insane RAM usage.
Ok, next time look something up on maps and then go to barista and ask them, what were you looking at. May give some credibility to "the whole starbucks knows" claim.
How do you fix education? By fixing the poverty.

How do you fix poverty? By fixing the education.

Oh wait, hang on...
C99 support is part of current versions of posix.
Don't worry. AMD was just replaced by ARM (and the manufactures who use their designs).

That's why Intel did so much R&D in power efficiency. ARM CPU are sometimes still favorable to Intel ones, in some markets Intel still doesn't have a chance.

PC is dominated by Intel. Smartphones by ARM.
Intel invades the tablet market, ARM the notebook.

Personally I would love me an nice ARM based notebook, but other factors like housing, keyboard and display are often better on Intel devices. But I don't think until ARM steps up and produces a high quality device like Google did for their Chromebooks, no manufacture will switch from the thinking that ARM is for cheap devices only.

My god I could already live with a Apple A7 level CPU and modern E-Ink display, which I have in my ebook reader who also can run linux and all tools I really need to work, fast enough to not limit or annoy me. Only thing why I don't use it as daily driver is the missing physical keyboard.

But you have to see, I use to roughly 80% of my time with just two consoles: vim and command window for running scripts and git. So I'm not the norm.

But what about the norm?

Germany has magazine called c't, who just recently published an article how the life with a smartphone as your work pc looks like. Speed wasn't the concern, because their ARM CPUs where powerful enough to run a browser or office software on a full screen monitor without problems. Connectivity was the only problem, which could negated with the right smartphone.

There was also an online article about a reporter test drive, who switched from his notebook to a smartphone and a Bluetooth keyboard for his mobile work setup. He liked it, except it was harder to deploy on the lap and he often needed a table to work. (I think it was engadget, but I can't find at the moment and I run out break time, so please look for yourself.)

TLDR: ARM is the new AMD.
Yes, the author expects something unrealistic and than presents his unfulfilled expectations as the problem. There's no technical reason that every notebook had to have the same cooling technology. That the processor can adjust to the cooling available is actually a good thing. And mobile phones behave exactly the same.
As OP is trying to highlight Go, What are the advantages of using Go for the Git LFS client ? I can only gather from the previous thread was that, one of the reason for going with Go so as to get a native executable ?[1]

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9345137
While major operating systems support UDF, they can all be a little picky about how it's used on a usb or harddrive. And windows has a tendency of not mounting something you didn't unmount properly (plugging it into a linux machine fixes this, from my experience).

The main problem you have is that there is no udf partition id, so I've never had it mount on OSX systems I've had access to (I have none myself, and it seems to respect the partition id, unlike windows and linux).

This post seems like a good summary, http://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article93/usb-udf. Though be warned that (from a quick read) some of the comments contain some misinformation.
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> Isn't this policy a federal intervention? If school funding is an issue, why not increase it at state or local level?

Yes, why not? However, as a federal intervention - it was not designed to work.

> You fogot to mention getting rid of teacher unions and starting evaluation of teacher performance. The idea of teacher tenure is simply insane!

Evidence contradict your claim. Finland has strong teacher unions. And the measures I mentioned are largely orthogonal to teacher unions.
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Once you start to install other software though, that's when it becomes a dangerous proposition.
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I'm not an expert of CryptoLocker but at this point I would just format the computer and assume all data is stolen and gone already, then deal with the consequences and train my employees about computer security a bit more.

It's not like someone has a physical thing in their hands and are willing to give it back if the ransom is paid. That is a bad situation as well, of course; but I find this to be worse.
I am more disturbed that they don't have access to rolling snapshots and backups that would let them restore and ignore.
This raises so many questions. The 3 major ones that come to my mind are;

1. How is security on a police server so bad it can be infected with malware in the first place

2. It sounds like they didnt have (good enough) backups, where they could just format the server and restore the data

3. Doesnt this mean that all the data on the police server is effectively compromised? i.e. the hackers could have made a copy before encrypting - so it is likely the data is breached?
As a number of people have mentioned, compatibility is one reason. However, there's another reason, particularly for flash drives: the FAT itself.

Flash drives tend to be MLC or TLC NAND flash, which is slow and can sometimes be error-prone. Oftentimes manufacturers will perform a trick and have the start of the disk actually be faster SLC NAND. Then, as a further enhancement, they'll make sure the table falls on sector boundaries.

With a more complicated filesystem this becomes more of a challenge. But with FAT, it's easy.
My wife teaches in a high poverty school and it just mystifies us that so much of the public debate about how to deal with the achievement gap focuses on blame.

We want to blame people. Teachers, parents, administrators, we're all looking for a scapegoat and there's no consensus which group is to blame.

But it's not that simple. There aren't any bad guys for us to nail to the cross. The achievement gap is the result of stark socioeconomic inequality.

Kids in poverty are kids not learning. The only way to deal with the achievement gap is for us to be brave enough as a society to deal with that. Failing schools are a symptom of disease of poverty, not the disease itself.

I strongly recommend everyone read this article: http://www.salon.com/2013/08/25/i_taught_at_the_worst_school...

My wife didn't write it, but it strongly resembles her day to day experience where she teaches.
This release is a big deal.

Specifically if you have been waiting to run databases etc on ZFSonLinux things are finally looking good.

Linux AIO support and tons of performance improvements are really making the difference.
"The :class:`set` type brings brings the practical expressiveness of set theory to Python. It has a very rich API overall, but lacks a couple of fundamental features. For one, sets are not ordered. On top of this, sets are not indexable"

I suppose that may be because sets are not supposed to be ordered. Nor indexable.
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How do you fix poverty? By having a safety net not full of holes like swiss cheese.
I still run into technical people very regularly that believe HTTPS is a big performance hit. I'm not sure what's perpetuating that myth (present day myth, 15 years ago it was true). I build everything side-wide HTTPS, and have rarely run into a situation where it caused even a 1% performance loss, and at those levels it's simply irrelevant in comparison to the benefit.
Yes, but drivers for common filesystems usually reside in the kernel, including the read-only NTFS implementation.
Carrizo was supposed to be on 20-22nm originally however they seem to have dropped ball completely :-( Not to mention it is yet to be seen if consumers can actually get their hands on the low-power versions of Carrizo - I wanted to buy a low-power Kaveri for a NUC-style mini PC but there was never any possibility to get one via normal sales channels... I can live with 12W as it packs faster graphics than Braswell/Core M and possibly allows 2GHz+ DRAM chips so that memory is no longer such a painful bottleneck as with Intel chips.