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I got the chance to play with Joyent's Triton Elastic Container Service. Yes, the trade-off between resource isolation and efficient usage would disappear since they use SmartOS zones rather than Linux namespaces or cgroups to provide strong isolation between containers. They have forked Mesos[1] and added capability to run Triton containers as Mesos tasks[2]. Some of the questions which need to be explored:

- Whether they provide some kind of built-in service discovery.

- Whether all existing Mesos frameworks will support Triton based Mesos deployment since many frameworks make use of different networking modes, docker storage engine.

[1]: https://github.com/joyent/mesos

[2]: https://www.joyent.com/blog/mesos-by-the-pound
What's sadder is that we have protests by highly capable people, i.e junior doctors, who have dedicated 7 years of schooling and are prepared to dedicate 10 years minimum to the NHS because they are being served an insane deal by Hunt and treated like dirt by his pals in the press.

This government is, with one hand, pushing millions deeper into poverty and a significant portion of that into homelessness. With the other, battering the national health service into a for-profit machine in time for when these desperate souls will need it most.

It's just a shame that many in our nation believe these people to be 'scroungers' and 'not worth helping'. It's far more shameful that these same people don't clock how the news outlets feeding them this crap change their tune like a faulty jukebox.
I know many marijuana smokers who don't smoke tobacco. in fact, most of the marijuana vape lounges in my city forbid the use of tobacco in or in front of the premises.

I personally quit smoking cigarettes by switching to marijuana. I know a handful of people that smoke both cigarettes and marijuana, but most of the people I talk to smoke one or the other.
Voice recognition is not "good enough" yet. It is better at simple commands than it used to be, and more ubiquitous, but it is still incredibly limited. Frankly, it's right up there with visual programming as a technology that's been touted as 5-10 years away from a breakthrough for decades.
Almost, but not quite all!

The first exception that comes to mind is tarsnap. Who does not only offer that promise, but offers code and reasoning for why it is impossible for them to compromise your data even if law enforcement comes calling!

Lavabit also comes to mind. While they could have technically compromised their customers, when law enforcement came calling (after Snowden famously used them), the owner chose to shut down instead of complying with the requests of law enforcement.

That said, such heroes are few and far between.
My understanding is that this system is trying to solve one particular problem: how can you be sure your vote was counted? A simple visual inspection probably isn't enough to convince me that my ballot box won't be dropped off the back of a truck later.

That said, I do have some question about how thoroughly it addresses that problem.

A lot of the presentation is about difficult edge cases, such as how a voter can falsely verify their vote to someone who's coercing them to vote a certain way. This part seems quite complicated, but it kind of has to be. Maybe an interest group could make step-by-step instructions available to groups of voters who they think are likely to be coerced.

What I don't know from the presentation is, is the simple case understandable? If I am a reasonably normal person who has never been to a key-signing party and does not code El Gamal for fun, will I be able to verify my vote? Do I need to personally do the math and computation that would verify my vote, or would there be a usable, trustworthy app of some sort that does it?

Here's another threat model that they don't discuss: what if I don't like this system and I want to undermine it, and I use a false verification code to say "look, you counted my vote for the wrong candidate, this system is corrupt"? Presumably nobody would be able to say I was wrong, and nobody would be able to distinguish a real election flaw from my fictitious one.
Snap! I a very fat man who can do 45 pushups without stopping. The idea of going for 10 minutes is unfathomable to me. But more important, you really dropped that 10 minutes into perspective for me. Thank you.
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AirPort router software does support WPS, primarily as a method to add AirPort Extenders to the network. To quote @joconor on Apple Community forums:

> Apple doesn't call it WPS, apparently preferring to use what I guess they think is more user-friendly terminology. They have a whole page in Airport Utility Help on "Adding a wireless client to your 802.11n network" that discusses the use of WPS, even though they never say "WPS". Airport Utility handles both Push Button and PIN methods of WPS. Apple refers to Push Button as "First Attempt".
Check out Project Euler(https://projecteuler.net/) if you want to solve mathematical puzzles.
> I'm a bit surprised he uses it for his desktop.

He is a FreeBSD developer. It wouldn't make sense to use another OS as a desktop, bare specific situations (e.g. in his day job he works as .NET developer).
Start helping users in the community by helping in forums, stack overflow for your chosen favorite Open source program. Write good tutorials in your blog and also starting contributing modules/plugins/addons anything which enhances the project and more you get involved, more you will learn and will be in better position to decide to excel to become top contributor to your favorite open source program. I applied the same what I wrote for my Fav WordPress program and now I love it and also have built a business around it.
Paper is here[1]

[1] http://arxiv.org/pdf/1510.05216v1
Because its not 1 study. Its 99% of all studies..and if the system is this way, how can you possibly trust any studies?? The system needs to be scrapped and started over. If you cant see this or dont want this, you are part of the problem.

Hackernews is supposed to be about free thought and open source and in reality, anyone with an opinion against the narrative is silenced.

Im not even close to a troll and i have had many of my comments silenced over the past week.

True science is striving for the truth, even if it makes that same person wrong.

without truth, we will have no progress. I suppose this means that myself and hackernews just dont have a good 'culture fit'. Im more about getting to the truth, expressing free thought, and having intelligent discussions. Not having to walk on egg-shells and fear the down vote and account ban for saying something that goes against the personal beliefs of the mods.

the community rules are also heavily skewed toward one group, because like many other inclusive groups, its an attempt to socially engineer the thoughts and beliefs of the community. Dictatorships and evil people have been using these techniques for centuries.

If i wanted this, i would work for a big corporation again.

Im done. Its only been a week, but im not coming back.
The push button method means it's not constantly enabled, and in Apple's case, the PIN method has a uniquely generated PIN on every time-limited use, thus again protecting you from reaver-style attacks. But I agree, it's not something I want on 24/7 since WPS can be used to recover any WPA password including the fancy 32-character ones ;-)
That can be assumed to be true of any statement made in such a policy, regardless of whether it's there or not. No company can credibly claim that they will defy the law on your behalf.
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It doesn't give specific examples but it does say that it could "come off as harsh" and words like "cutting" imply that.
What if you want to use a function instead of an operator?
An alternative to typing wifi passwords: http://michael.stapelberg.de/Artikel/yubikey_wifi_password/

I recently added an NFC tag to the QR code with wifi credentials. For devices that support NFC, this makes it even quicker to get into the wifi :).
It would be enlightening to see a time-lapse of this graphic that instead charts the course of a year ... or decade ... or century.

This site is great work - I enjoy rediscovering it on what I suspect is an annual basis.
I got the sense that this is more about raising recognition that F# isn't tied completely to the MS ecosystem which is facing something of an uncertain future.
For desktop it seems as though the last part that is holding up a major change in form factor design is the video card. While everything else gets smaller, these seem to get bigger and bigger (more fans, more RAM, etc)

Really exciting to see changes like these come. I can't wait to start adopting these into my PC builds. I might just try one for a new HTPC I am building (OS drive).
> "He could come off as very harsh,” said one person who has had many encounters with Page over the years. “Until you realize it was more that he was completely lacking in EQ. I mean, zero.”

I think it's pretty clear that the feedback could have been given in a more constructive manner.
I think this explanation has the opposite effect: it cheapened the nuances of what he said.
I've been their customer since the beginning and have participated in all their upgrades.

None of the data has been useful/insightful, its been good for mere entertainment so far. I don't expect it to get any useful anytime soon.
>> At the end the reader doesn't know any more about who killed a couple of people in 1982 than they did at the beginning.

This is probably the one thing that infuriates me about long form articles. At the end of reading a 15-20 minute article there's absolutely no pay-off, no conclusion and nothing worthwhile to take away from it.
I only found out about NVMe a few months ago, mostly because I've been focusing on the dayjob, but I am really excited about the technology. for a long time, there wasn't anything but proprietary shit drivers for pcie-ssd and if you did get your hands on some pci-e flash, without the proprietary driver, at best, you'd get a MTD. MTDs are way less useful, if you want to run a filesystem other than jffs2, and mtdblk, from what I read, is kinda shit. But NVMe solves all those problems, as far as I can tell. (I haven't bought any yet, but will shortly.)

SuperMicro is selling chassis that have a mix of NVMe and regular sata ports in form factors similar to the traditional 2.5" sata hot swap bays, which is awesome... in my application, at least, it's not acceptable to have to unrack and take apart a server when a drive fails, so without that part (without chassis that have externally accessible hot-swap bays for NVMe) it's pretty much a no-go.

But all the pieces are here. I just need to get together the cash (see aformentioned dayjob) and then figure out what I've gotta buy quality wise. (the samsung pros are on the list, and of course, the nicer Intel stuff) - SSDs really are quite different from spinning disk in many ways; especially backups without zfs. just doing a snapshot and full dd-image of a fast ssd like this would probably be acceptable once a day; something I wouldn't dream of with spinning disk.

For some background, I've fallen way behind my competition, and I'm still entirely spinning disk while most of them are entirely ssd. I'm most of the way to matching them on ram/disk per dollar at this point (not on the front page, but most of my customers are upgraded and the rest will be done soonish) but even then, I'm on spinning disk and they are on ssd.
> It was fun, too; much like debugging code with your hands. Okay, what evidence do I have to work with? Of these several hypothesises, which are the most likely? And, just like code, sometimes you spend the afternoon going down what you thought was the right path only to find out you're wrong.

Reminds me of reading "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"
They want me to enter upper case letter. I enter Ö and it doesn't accept it
As a former C++ programmer, I appreciate everybody that tries to make programming in this language more logical.

I just think, that C++ and particularly the whole template system is just to complicated.

I have enough work to do, finding solutions for the real world problems that must be implemented -- I don't want to have more work fiddling around with language specifics and even more trickery, just to have my programs running maybe 1% faster.

C++, particularly the template system and the new standard library that is based on the STL, disappointed me long time ago, when a whole group of programmers where trying to find out what the compiler errors where about deep inside the STL. The whole error handling inside the templates where so muddled, that it was nearly impossible to find out what the trouble was, without reading big parts of the STL source.

I trust, that today's compilers generate better error messages for templates, but still I am not sure that the whole thing -- and particularly the STL -- is worthwhile for most real-life problems.
>I had a (male) colleague once argue with me that men and women had no differences in mentality due to testosterone. The desire to believe in equality is weird sometimes.

Not to mention that there are lots of other differences that can have an impact, from the generally reduced physical strength, to birth related effects all the way down to increased life span...
I was going to reply to your post saying you're thinking of the famo.us animation library thats been on HN a few times but then realized the library has been moved to famous.org and this CMS site is the new Famous? Did this happen recently (and, if true, is indeed quite ridiculous)?
It's needlessly hectic. It's not a movie, it's TEXT. It starts off with some silly animation. Then another entirely pointless page with features that could easily be triggered by some sort of side menu or icon row in the top right of the screen. Now I've scrolled through two pages of crap.

Then there's a paragraph taking up another page. And NOW is the article, which fits into a fixed 800px wide container.

The "A" in the top right is an edgy animated menu instead of being A+ / A- to resize text which is what I thought it was.

- Make it fluid

- Cut any and all fluff

If I have to spend even the slightest effort to get to understand your layout or feel comfortable with the site, I just close it. I don't have that sort of time.

I hate all these new style article sites that are made just to justify the developers salary.
The number of push up doesn't matters, do an exercise for 10 min even if you can't do a single push up if you spend 10 min trying and resting and do it over 6 weeks while keeping to a single rule that you must improve (do at least 1 more) over the previous day you'll see quite an amazing improvement over a period of 6 weeks.

You can also do 5min of pushups, 5min situps can't drop much beyond that but still unless you are in stellar shape you'll see an improvement over 6 weeks (even 2 week).

I've seen plenty of people going from 0 pushups to 10-20 within a week by trying to do it daily for only a couple of minutes, like with most exercises the results of the first 4-8 weeks are the most noticeable.

That's of course doesn't mean that you can get into shape by spending 10min a day, but the for a single exercise that's more than enough when you spend 1-2 hours at a gym you rarely put in more than 10min per exercise unless it's aerobics.

So the brain analogy can hold because you are training your brain to do certain things, and you get better at it, it doesn't necessarily mean that you get smarted just that your brain gets more adapted to performing certain tasks. Solving sudoku is very hard at first but after several weeks of doing it daily you get quite good at solving such problems, same goes for crossword puzzles and other similar things.

P.S.
On a psychological level that's one of the easiest ways to convince some one to do it because it takes nothing from them and they can see almost an immediate improvement dragging some one to the gym and forcing them to stick isn't easy, showing them that they can noticeably improve over weeks can give many people that moral boost they need to actually start investing more effort into it.
The interviewee is involved with the xfce4 ports/packages and by amazing coincidence I'm using that DE under OpenBSD 5.8 now on my old Thinkpad. All works fine and I forget which free system I'm actually using sometimes.

Some desktop differences from Linux: no graphical wifi manager that I'm aware of, there are various scripts floating about, or you just use ifconfig from a terminal as root. NTFS not writeable (can read fine). On the upside, sound just works as does suspend &c.
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Great post. In terms of logging, check out Papertrail. They are super simple. Just setup rsyslog to point to Papertail, then update your services (nginx, postgres, mongodb) to use syslog.
That your argument is both an appeal to parsimony and imagination is slightly dissonant.
I think this is the use case for a Bluetooth scale
>is like hitting F5 in your life

It starts your career in debug mode ?
The nature vs nurture debate will go on. But I think the question needs to be framed differently. Its not about comparing one person with the other but the approach that best maximizes ones own potential. When framed this way, the answer becomes very clear - you have to believe that you can become smarter. This is not just blind belief but is practically the way brain works (neuroplasticity)and we see it every day. If you can learn to play the guitar at 60 means you can change your brain. I am sure there are 60 year olds who are smarter than 20 year olds just like there are 60 year olds who can run for longer than 20 year olds. As engineers we tend to downplay psychological factors compared to physiological factors. But the connection has been established beyond doubt in neuroscience. It hasn't gotten to a point where we can formulaically impact outcomes through calibrated intervention but the linkages are clear. Our definition of smartness is very narrow. Here is a conversation between a 50 year old scientist and a 70 year old poet https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/04/27/when-einstein-met-t...
The whole regulation was undermined from the beginning by financial interests of big corporations and internet providers.

No wonder, when you see, which politicians are in charge.

The EU -- I must regretful say -- is just a dumping place for those politicians, that did already prove in their own country that they are incompetent.

The whole EU is just an invitation for lobbyists to get more pleasant regulations.

In our country, the politicians always say: "Oh, we don't like that regulation, but we have to put it in action, because it comes from the EU" -- of course they say that even, when their own party or even when they themselves have pressured the EU to bring this regulation on it's way. The EU is just a big black box, where any stupid and unwanted (from the voters side) regulation can be brought threw, without putting votes at risk. A perfect system for politicians like we have in Germany, that give themselves a pretty looks, but in reality they just give a sh*t for their own voters. No wonder, we only have such puppets left in Berlin. But maybe, every nation just gets the politicians, it deserves.
The author was recently on the Longform podcast [1] and discussed how this story came together. I enjoyed it.

[1]: http://longform.org/posts/longform-podcast-163-matthew-shaer
Their IDE is called Visual Studio.
Apparently the wifi icon is greyed out when it switches to cellular data according to Gizmodo. I don't have an iOS device ATM so I can't confirm.
I've built an API that helps developers build apps that create habits.

http://UseDopamine.com/
It depends on the country you're in. For some EU states the MEPs are elected as a single group. For others there are constituencies within the state and the state's overall group of MEPs is composed of several smaller groups. So what you say is true in some states, but not in others.

Also, MEPs have considerably more practical power since the Lisbon Treaty.
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I agree with your points. I understand the thinking behind the feature and I also understand Apple wanting to keep it simple but it really does seem as if it simply never occurred to anyone at Apple that data caps and overage charges were a thing. And it's also true that there's this largely artificial distinction between "computer networking" and "telco networking" today where everything changes when you transition from WiFi to cellular. That distinction isn't of Apple's doing but it's something that they, among others, are going to need to deal with at some point.
I'm just starting to blog - thanks for the tips!
Good luck with that. If you look on a site like Stack Overflow at questions about even languages like C and C++, you'll see developers confusing Xcode with their language. With a name like "Visual F#" it must be 100 times worse since it includes the name of the language in the product name.
Well done for shipping!
I've heard similar stories about a plumber, which said the former plumber actually found programming fairly easy. I laughed at the IT profession.
Then you just fold the comma operator.
How I won a Facebook hackathon without a line of code (2014)
Not that this article is necessarily about entrepreneurism, but just general "ageism" in SV. I see this as an opportunity rather than a problem. Leaves a lot of room for older entrepreneurs without anyone backing their idea (or anyone willing to take them in as an employee). Sure it will require ambition beyond even a typical entrepreneur, but I have a hunch that those people (the ones who could not find a place in an established company because of his/her age) will be the ones who receive pitches in SV in the not-too-distant future.
Yeah, but I'm not going to take a Bluetooth scale when I go on business trips.
>You're not going to be doing any copy-pasta from StackOverflow when you're an auto mechanic.

That's an interesting comparison - why couldn't you use StackOverflow for mechanics. I don't know anything about cars other than they have generally have 4 wheels and use fuel but from the hardware work I've done on computers whenever I was troubleshooting stuff I would first look for symptoms then I would search and find random things to try on the internet. I don't see why this wouldn't apply to cars - people sharing their cases and being able find relevant ones could be a time saver.
Reminds me of academics saying stuff like "LaTeX autocorrected my spelling mistakes". Argh.
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Yes, I've been watching for someone to start The Graybeard Fund.
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Then entrepreneurship culture needs to change, a lot. A 22-year-old can subsist on Ramen while living in a car. A 45-year-old can't ask his wife and children to do that.

Startups staffed/founded by middle-aged people are going to have to pay drastically better wages, and investors are going to have to be okay with that.