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> wow so instead of running my configuration management stuff I know need to either: - be on aws - be on gcloud - any other cloud that has docker support out of the box

No. You need a networked computer with a quasi-recent kernel. There are no requirements to use a cloud provider or to use AWS/GCP.

> OR: I need docker + a configuration management to setup my environment, or I need to somehow manage my coreos configs. Oh and finally don't forget to run a network over a network cause it's dockerish so for most clouds this means we run a network on a network which runs a network.

This sounds like aimless rambling. You don't have to use any of this. You can, of course, but I can do some nasty stuff without Docker as well. Like I mentioned with Container Engine, setting up a Kubernetes cluster is like two mouse clicks. You can get as simple as ECS, or you can roll your own from the ground up. You have the option to pick a point on a spectrum. With ECS, it's Amazon's way or the highway.

> however i just don't get it why people use their time for docker when there are other things to do in their programs.

Because it saves us loads of time developing, testing, and deploying our systems. There is more initial setup work, but after that we are deploying images seamlessly, have a great rolling upgrade and rollback story out of the box, and get a lot of other bonuses like service discovery, auto-scaling (vertically and horizontally), and much better (higher) resource usage levels. And we're far from a mega-corp.

To me, it sounds like you may have skimmed some, perhaps even played a bit. But you ran into a snag, threw up your hands, and have summarily dismissed an entire ecosystem after your experience(s). I see enough un-informed or 100% incorrect things above to think you're missing some details.
I still prefer using automation like ansible or saltstack over docker. You can't run it on very popular OpenVZ VPS and it's another useless layer of abstraction with security holes in it.
American expat having the same nerd shortage in Manitoba, but worse. 1 out of 100 have heard of linux, and 7 out of ten of those will wince/sneer when it's mentioned. A handful of people use Solaris or AIX (because you don't get fired for buying IBM/ORCL), but most are windows peasants trying to keep their ASP.NET skills relevant.

It's like living in 1999 again.
Dell: Apple should close shop (1997)
Digital Checks/e-Checks are very fraud sensitive. They usually clear just 5-7 days later and I have seen cases where the merchant lost tens of thousands of dollars.
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ORLANDO, Florida--When it comes to the state of Apple Computer, everyone has an opinion.

And at the Gartner Symposium and ITxpo97 here today, the CEO of competitor Dell Computer added his voice to the chorus when asked what could be done to fix the Mac maker. His solution was a drastic one.

"What would I do? I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders," Michael Dell said before a crowd of several thousand IT executives.

Dell's comments follow Steve Jobs's keynote address at the Seybold trade show last week in San Francisco, where the Apple cofounder seemed to win over attendees with his explanation of why he had made certain key decisions, killing the clone market and aligning more closely with Microsoft. The Seybold crowd--as well as some Apple employees--also seemed to be buoyed by the increasing role Jobs has taken on at the company as board member and interim CEO.

But others, like Dell, appear to think that Jobs's expanded role isn't helping. There is some concern that Apple will have a hard time recruiting a top-notch CEO because of Jobs's presence.

Others fear that Apple could end up completely in Microsoft's camp by deciding to use the NT operating system on its servers. Apple is reportedly planning to come out with network computers that would require high-end servers to function.

While many industry executives have offered opinions on how to right Apple's ship, no high-level executive has made as blatant a comment as Dell's.
LBA has been brought up many times :) And yes, I am a huge fan of Ultima
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this is a correct point, thanks, but you've discussed interests around a means, not interests around the end.

there's zero pressure in the opposite direction, for maintaining malaria, except the pressure from the natural world making it a somewhat tricky problem. if someone can solve it cheaply and easily they wouldn't face resistance from anyone.
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if you look into the tax code, you pretty much max out at 150k. if you go higher, the tax rates eat all your wages alive.
It sounds like you worked with David Chaum as he is very good at theory but horrible at practice. He loves to tinker, but he hates to commit. The article you reference is an understatement when it comes to his lack of ethics, fairness, and huge ego. He totally has no respect for his partners or employees, and he is not a man of his word. I would not trust him with any system that has a backdoor.
Everything is rendered on the GPU. This is more based on ray tracing and marching than voxels alone (although voxels do represent the underlying terrain and destruction data). Ray tracing is highly parallelizable - each pixel can be computed completely independent of the others.
If we define an art as strive to reach an aesthetic global optimum, by balancing form and meaning (syntax and semantics, if you wish, design and implementation) with attention to every single detail, then [some] programming is an art without a slightest doubt.
Your point doesn't change mine, the parent said you have to know about the world you're disrupting, for example the taxi world (my example). But you don't have to know anything about the taxi world to make a taxi app (as you put it) and a ten billion dollar company around it. You don't need to "live in" the industry or sector you're disrupting.
If you create a bomb that can destroy the universe, are you really gonna blame who pulls the trigger?

Scale.
Have you checked it out on your phone recently? The new mobile markdown makes it much better
The 'web' link now standard below the title on the discussions page for each article provides basically this functionality. There is no longer a need for commenters to post such comments.
Unanimity may be a bad thing
I'd call it the Star Trek society.
I agree with this.

Perhaps a way to refine this understanding is to consider a different medium more typically believed to be artistic: film.

A director will construct the artistic vision (akin to the requirements/concept) and then work with film music composer to add music (analogous to development). Is the composer and artist practicing art? I would suggest that the word "craftsman" is better suited to the work the film composer does (assuming that they aren't also directing). That doesn't mean that a film composer cannot also be an artist in his/her own right, but in this context their input is arbitrarily limited by the artistic vision of the director... even if the director's vision allows for significant discretion by the composer.

Most development work, as you point out, has this separation of creative impulse from the implementing crafts. I do think there is "art" involved in programming, but only when the creative impulse is joined with the craft of development in a single mind.
What about algorithm problems for with the most efficient Big-O solution is known? How can you "skillfully" render code when there is only one best possible way to do it?

I would argue that in those cases, programming is not an art because the arriving at the solution is very mechanical and there is literally zero room for creativity. Thus imo this answer isn't broad enough to fully define "Art"
That's a good point. I meant something a little different (but wasn't 100% clear): Why is Random J. Company's access to and use of the data any less of a security breach than some unknown third party accessing and using the data?

Someone might say that user consent is a difference, but I doubt more than a very few users understand the scale of data collection, much less the implications.
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I only skimmed over the release notes, but I hope they avoid adding too much complexity and keep it's prized simplicity.
Providing opportunities for kids to learn coding is great, but it's possible to go overboard with it (teaching pre-readers?). For example, I don't think it should be considered one of the core subjects that gets taught throughout K-12 (math, science, English, history).

Let's face it--being able to program anything interesting actually takes a tremendous amount of hard and often tedious work, and most kids won't be able to get over the hump. Think playing an instrument: can be very rewarding if you're good, but most kids don't want to grind out all those hours of practice. If it's problem-solving skills that we're trying to teach, math or even puzzle games engage those modes of thinking more directly, more generally, and with a smoother learning curve.
There is a dissector, but no, it doesn't show this level of detail.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/xmonad. <-- good xmonad info here
Ask HN: Why don't startups try to disrupt the poor state of mental health?
If even hackers are being affected by an epidemic of severe depression, why isn't there more silicon valley / venture capitalist interest in fixing America?
Ring Doorbell Vulnerability Exposes Wifi Password
Had a lump in my throat by the time I got to the end.
>Chip design, graphics, storage

Actually all these things are studied in "computer science." At least, I did at my school.
Ask HN: How long did it take for you to get jaded in this industry?
I'm convinced that everyone reaches this point, some sooner than later. Whether it be something career related, or something related to the industry in general, we all have frustrations that we never could have predicted that make us lose sense of hope. Of course, this could be simply temporary or terribly long lasting, depending on circumstance.

What's your story and when did you reach that point?
There's a public RFC, but it's by no means usable as a bitstream spec.
There's an official text document describing the bitstream format (several hundreds pages), but it's under NDA.
We use it at work, and getting an updated version is far more trouble than downloading a file on a public server.
The document in itself is nearly worthless, though, as it's far from complete. In the end, you still need to dig into libvpx to understand how things work.
If you're working on multiple projects simultaneously (e.g. multiple microservices within a company or multiple client projects if you are a freelancer), Docker is a godsend to quickly get your development environment setup. All you need to declare your "infrastructure" (e.g. PostgreSQL, Redis, etc.) in a docker-compose.yml and `docker-compose up` will get you up and running in no time.
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It seems like basically a local elevation of privilege. Useful to malware and/or wayward secretaries.
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EVE Online, of course, had a similar incident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodbath_of_B-R5RB

On January 27, 2014 (YC 116 in-game), the one-year anniversary of the immense Battle of Asakai, player corporation "H A V O C", a member of Nulli Secunda, which in turn is a part of the N3/Pandemic Legion coalition, mistakenly failed to make a scheduled payment to in-game security force CONCORD. This resulted in the star system B-R5RB losing its sovereign status, which meant that other players could capture the system without needing to wait for the normal "reinforcement timers" (real time waiting periods of several days designed to allow defenders to rally).

I played EVE Online for a good 6 months but never really got over the learning curve hump, at least to the point where I would consider it "fun". I found myself split screening it and having an Excel spreadsheet open and suddenly I realized I was competing in an virtual economy that was all too real.
Just use a webserver with correct 304 handling (like s3) and publish your bundle there. It works both for React Native and Cordova.
Or get Swift on iOS
Writing bash scripts becomes a lot less error prone with shellcheck[1]. Syntastic for vim integrates well with it.

[1]: https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck
I spend time HN because I am no where near the smartest person and I tend to optimize for learning. But that is my nature...and it only works for me for some odd definitions of "works".

I don't really have an accurate context for Japan's employment landscape - other than believing it is somewhat different from the US. So I don't feel comfortable being specific. My confidence in my imagination fails me unfortunately.
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India: Letter to Facebook [pdf]
Main Points
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• First, Facebook tried to mislead it's users into sending emails to TRAI which just said "We support Free Basics".

• After receiving hordes of such emails, TRAI picked on Facebook to communicate with the senders in order to advise them to send emails that contained answers to the consultation. Accordingly, TRAI extended the consultation period by 7 days.

• Facebook responded towards the end of the period that they were unable to reach users. Apparently, they claimed in their letter to TRAI that peoples' support for Free Basics in the emails (somehow) translated to answers to TRAI's questions.

• Facebook claimed that 11 million emails were sent to TRAI through their platform. TRAI says it only received 1.89 million.

• TRAI has declared that it has not received any revised responses.
Yahoo settles e-mail privacy class-action: $4M for lawyers, $0 for users
That doesn't seem to be what he's saying--in fact, he says "a good programmer will never work for equity." He says if you can't pay cash, you're not a good entrepreneur.
Fortunately for the world, Woz did not subscribe to this point of view.
Sony Attempts to Trademark “Let’s Play” – It’s as Bad as It Sounds
Implications of use of multiple controls in an A/B test
Either no one has figured out how to monetize mental illness with an app yet, or no one feels confident challenging the regulatory and legal prohibitions already in place. The pharmaceutical companies seem to be winning in this space.
I will go against the crowd and suggest that you just keep doing what you're doing. Forget about "making it fun". Even in these rough demos, the various parameters and behaviors you land on clearly shows a natural instinct for it that you can trust. Forget about "making an actual game", what you're doing is magic and the more you do it, the better. You've got a gem here. It's already insanely valuable. Keep polishing it, and the world is yours. Keep this up, as long as you can. The "last mile" is going to be easy for you.
So the U.S. should just let anyone export nuclear weapons manufacturing information and these trade restrictions lifted?

http://www.state.gov/strategictrade/overview/
Actually, as a decoder implementer, I found that having the C source code of a reference decoder (libvpx), whose behaviour is authoritative over any text document, actually made things a lot more easy.
Because now, whenever you ask yourself "how should a VP9 decoder behave in this situation?", you have a non-ambiguous answer "do like libvpx does".

We didn't have this luxury with HEVC. The HEVC reference decoder (HM) is horribly complex, and has been easy to crash in many different ways for years. As a consequence, it could by no means be considered as authoritative. Which is a pity, because there were a lot of discrepancies between the reference decoder and the .doc spec.
I can't believe this is happening today. I know that ideologies use humans to build organizations and do battle with each other, but I thought we were past the Stalinist purges and atheist totalitarianism. This makes anything the US does to Muslims pale in comparison. How does China grant freedom of religion to five religions only?
I was about to make some witty and intelligent comment about Ansible and its usefulness for cloud orchestration, and then I remembered that I've drank over half a bottle of wine and it's time to pass out, so g'night.
Toontown at least has been picked up by a team of fans [1] who reverse-engineered the client and built their own server software on top of Disney's open-source release of their networked actor model system, Astron [2]. They're really doing a great job with it, adding new features and content and making significant expansions to the game lore. In some ways they're able to do more with the world than Disney ever would have.

Their marketing has also been very polished - especially for a fan revival of a game targeted at young children - and the community is surprisingly healthy as a result. In run-ups to a major releases, they've run puzzle trails/mini-ARGs that have brought hundreds of people to try and piece together the clues [3].

I hope Disney doesn't swoop in one day and shut it all down, Nintendo-style. They must know about it in some capacity, as core team members from Toontown Rewritten are now major contributors to Astron. Perhaps they think it's better for their public image to let it be.

[1] https://www.toontownrewritten.com/

[2] https://github.com/Astron/Astron

[3] http://toontownrewritten.wikia.com/wiki/Alternate_Reality_Ga...
Caltech suspends professor for harassment
Those 'democratic' countries you mention are using the same features themselves.
Show HN: Cross platform messaging plugin
I've always taken darknet to mean a network physically separate from the Internet, like a wireless mesh or something along those lines. However it's definitely changed in usage to mean any network that's not part of the public internet, even if it's layered on top of it, freenet, tor, ipfs even.
Only if you subscribe to the "evil deeds done against bigots are not really evil" doctrine.
What I want to know is: how does this affect me as a PC Gaming enthusiast? I'm guessing these parts will still be made, but maybe not all completely assembled for someone to take home.

Does this PC label also include laptops? And does this list include Apple? It seems like they're mentioned but its a little ambiguous as to whether its included.
Great approach - assuming of course that your mother is not a developer :)
I take for Science the natural and social sciences (see Wikipedia article on Science). In other words, Physics and all its sub divisions. In this respect, programming is not a science. CS is mostly a sub division of Math (also, not a science). Programming is a mix of engineering (that is finding an optimal solution given a set of known tools to a non-universal problem) and art - anything that allows for creativity in the forming of a finalized product. Most engineering disciplines have an aspect of art in them, but programming is perhaps the most artful thanks to the incredibly wide range of close-to-optimal solutions. But programming is also one more thing: a social process, the process of organising people and their work (which is neither science, nor math, nor art).
Is it though? It can certainly be formal. But so is logic, so is mathemetics. I am not sure there is a clear consensus if math is a science.

I can go with engineering (but licensed engineers might object to that), art or craft perhaps.
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"The problem there is not the US government. The problem there is religion - a specific religion to be extact."

One might say that China's militant atheism is in many ways similar or even worse than Saudi Arabia's pervasive Islamism. Both have "religious" police. But China is even more brutal.
I stand amazed that we still haven't gotten back to what AFS had back in 1992 or what VAX had back in 1986.
I'm strongly in support of holding cisco accountable for this in any way, shape or form possible.

....but if we do that, where will we get routers with backdoors for us.gov from?
Well not in mine. Computer engineering and hardware design were in a separate college even.
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You must think Orwellian - what is the only real evil thing in 1984 - the dissent unsanctioned by the government.

My wild guess is that the original was something along the lines of disorder/troublemakers and got lost in translation.
Which Song Made your last 2015?
Battling on the song that made my 2015??...Celine Dion==>I drove all Night made my 2015!!
So which song made yours??
Yes, this includes laptops. Yes this includes Macs, which are up 2.5% (thus the rest of the PC industry is down more than the headline number; supposedly vendors beyond the top 5 were hurt most, down like 20% year-over-year as a group).

Beyond Macs, Asus also up 0.5%, all other PC vendors way down. Overall PC sales down ~10.5%.

Does anyone know if those numbers include Chromebooks?
Being in customer support I often experience the exact opposite. We often do not know how to explain stuff so that really nobody will misunderstand. I've recently summarized this as "everything that can be misunderstood, no matter how remotely, will be misunderstood" even little things like "click this, then click that."

We have an App (of debatable quality) where we made screenshots with big red circles so people know which button to push, as many do not read the button's label.

Sure, I also misread email. Easy enough to say "sorry, my fault" and fix the problem.

EDIT: As this might sound very negative: the whole situation is more like "collective creativity", rather than stupidity. I'm often astonished on how people think and what there reasoning is. Ways of thinking I'd never imagined. And no matter how absurd, there's always some logic reasoning.
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Aesthetic global optimum can never be reached as it changes with time and differs among people. We are cursed to eternally iterate over our programs in attempt to reach this lofty goal.

Let me know if you've seen any program that can be described as aesthetically optimal.
Possibly not the best example--to my understanding, Jobs sold his car and pre-sold the Apple I to raise cash from day one, and apparently even before that got a deal with Atari that he then subcontracted Woz to fulfill. So I don't think Jobs would fail this blog author's test.

Regardless, both of them certainly risked a lot.
Forgotten? Hardly.

I know about Hopper, Lovelace and others. Of course I took classes that used Ada95 and as with most languages and tools learned its history.

Any competent programmer would do so. Of course the general public wouldn't know these notable people in a niche technical field. Quick anyone please tell me the name of the first stopping guard for schools! How dare you don't know of this honorous person -- male or female.

If I worked in public safety I might know, or care; but I don't.

These ladies are hardly forgotten they were legends even in their own time. This article misconstrues realities by assuming everyone and every profession, or gender, should be a precious snowflake and immortalized in time. Thousands of un-named people die daily and we don't morn them as forgotten -- it's simply details beyond the scope of our daily personal realities.
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30 Years. Too many cycles of one popular language/design/data-model/patterns replacing another. Too many bubbles. Too many me-too products. Too many bugs produced faster than they're squelched. Too many simple paradigms made too complex, requiring creation of new simplicities that will only be overly complexified again. Too many people making too much money with too high opinions of their own genius accomplishing too little.

A year and a half ago I saw my wife studying a textbook on Anatomy & Physiology. I started reading it. I thought "OMFG this stuff is amazing! And it can't be learned in 3 days (unlike all these 'hard' problems we hackers like to discuss)."

Now I'm going to school for a career in nursing.