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Docker is marketing based.

Jails are engineering based.

It may make no difference to you, but it is the same difference between religion and science.

You don't hide problem behind nice easy tools easily deployable, you do it the hard way.

And as BSD says: jails are strong cages, but they are made of glasses, and when they break, it breaks badly.

Engineers don't believe in reassuring technology, they control them and do not fear the ugly details, they are aware of the domain of validity, accept imperfections and do not hide them under stickers, propaganda and success stories. They do risk control, they right manuals and point out weaknesses.

Jails user at least know this solution is a brass bullet and can fail you.

And sometimes good users worth more than good technologies.

A good soldier is valuable more than good weapons.

That's why early adoptant of linux are going to BSD. To get the control back and go back to basic engineering approaches that are stable.

I learnt in this process that you can learn from the mistakes that made linux fail the community : evangelization, consensus, philosophical approach, over-promising and being nice.
Part of it is that banks don't want you to have financial literacy. If you did, you likely wouldn't purchase most of their products.
This article confuses me. The author tears down a strawman argument about running centralized key services ("The expensive solution"), then recommends exactly such a solution in Amazon KMS.

The only plausible way this can make sense to me is if he said "Running your own key service is a pain, use Amazon KMS". But that's a simple service question, probably wouldn't have taken up as much space.
When do you expect to have more information about YC Research? I am interested in applying.
I think most of us realize that they're not going to win, but when the jackpot becomes a national event every 6 months or whatever, there's usually some joy in buying a ticket anyway
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> I wonder how this is legal and considered acceptable. I wish I knew how Google and others gets away with scraping content [...]

Well, here's the answer: "transformative" reuse of content is explicitly permitted under copyright law. Simply reproducing the content and charging for it would not fall under this provision, but building an archive of publicly available information is - quite appropriately, permissible.

There was recently a very large court case regarding this principle and its application to Google Books. Google won, by demonstrating that their search index is not equivalent to and does not affect the market for the original work - a "transformative" use.

Sharing is good. Publicly available works achieve their aims only by being consumed by others - anyone who publishes a work free of charge should expect it to be, and remain, publicly accessible.
Maybe he's a paramedic
It's also not clear what the end condition is. I edited the source so that it always picks my numbers, and it just keeps going. So far I've spent $2,734 and won over a trillion.
The obvious equivalent for the HN crowd:

"Here is $50k. Now quit your job and start a start-up"

Difficulty bonus -- startup idea is generated by a Markov chain and could be anything -- "Uber for dogs", "Taxidermied pets as drones" etc.
I was fine until I read this:

"If anything, recycled wastewater is relatively sweet,"
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Is ROI profit/investment or revenue/investment?

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/returnoninvestment.asp says its the first one.
I have fun idea.. How about all the people on hacker news put $2 in the HN lotto pool:). So I am assuming there are over 50k people that read? Can you imagine if the people on HN win powerball, it will set a precedent. Now, that will be fun:).
It absolutely does. For instance, it can enforce strict aliasing across translation unit boundaries, breaking code which depends on that separation to protect it.
Of note: YC is a private equity firm
No, it's a matter of coverage. Every year you'll have one stretch of 4 to 7 days without appreciable sun and this tends to deplete your batteries to the point where you will wreck the pack if you don't recharge.

So you install either a wind generator, a genset or both.

> As far as I can tell, panels + battery (properly sized, and admittedly expensive) are all you need.

In some locations this may be true, in most it isn't.

> You can just cancel your electric service at that point.

As soon as you have backup power you can do that anyway.
But there are only two drawings a week, right? If you only bought one ticket with the same six numbers for every single drawing in a year, you could only spend 532$3 = $318/year on lottery tickets. If you wanted to spend $100 on tomorrow's $800M prize, you have to buy 33 tickets against one set of winning numbers.
Adulthood is defined by extreme personal responsibility.

I didn't consider making a baby adulthood, or getting a $100k/year job to be adulthood. If anything, I was _less_ responsible for my own actions (ballooning to 360lbs), because I started focusing on the things I _had_ to do, and let my personal development stop due to not having time.

Oddly, I realized and _grasped_ the concept that I had to take responsibility for my actions at around 19. But thinking that I had to check these checkboxes off my "Steps to Adulthood" list, I put off everything else in order to achieve it. I didn't actually achieve adulthood from that path, I just had the trappings and appearance of adulthood. But I was still about 13 years old inside.

I didn't consider myself an adult until the second time I made a judge run out of the courtroom (I declared a de jure court mid-sentencing after serving him notice of that right). The actual reason is less than relevant, but it was the taking control of my potential, and using it responsibly to help someone else, that brought me to adulthood.
Steve Jobs took no pay at all for years. If he had played hardball with the board, he could've become the richest man in the world. Tim Cook is not doing it for the money either.
> If that limit is 4 mph or 10 mph, I think it's fair to charge more.

But there's already telltales for that: if a driver consistently drives more than 10 mph over the speed limit, they'll eventually get caught and ticketed.

That's where age & experience come into play. If a driver has 20 years of experience with no tickets nor accidents, does any of the other stuff really matter? It's not just observable, it's proof - instead of assumption.
The recommended solution is still vulnerable to employee compromise: if they can push software that runs as a trusted role, they can steal any secrets that software has access to.
I agree. They make the rules, they write the fine print, they hide the fees, etc...

Are there any consumer advocacy groups that represent the interests of consumers of financial services? Seems like that should be a thing.
Incorrect.

http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/PUC/energy/DistGen/netsurplus.htm
It stops when balance = 0, i.e. you spent $x + all your winnings on lottery tickets.
Yea, I can't remember as it's been many years but I do remember finding maybe one or two sites talking about what I needed (somewhat), and what I was working with was probably pretty entry-level stuff.
The ROI would be (10,598 - 115, 698) / 115,698 = ~-90%
A handful of reasons

* Power consumption

* Maybe your overall budget is less that $10 for everything

* Size: one project I'm working on has a 1.5x2.0" space available for electronics

* Start time. Maybe you need to get in control within 50mS of power on before that actuator starts flailing wildly around.

* Control over the entire stack. You can't always trust the code running underneath you.

I could go on, but you get the gist...
Lottery is a progressive tax on stupidity.
Not everyone resisted the temptation.

The Mirror (UK): New Cuban missile crisis as makers of Hellfire rocket send it to Havana by accident
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/new-cuban-missile-cr...

RT: Cuban ‘Hellfire’ missile crisis: US wants rocket back after it was accidently sent to Havana
https://www.rt.com/usa/328303-cuba-missile-usa-accident/
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Perhaps this is helpful? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2006/01/google-cache-ruled-fai...
I remember 26 yo as a turning point for me and most friends around. Not a total change in personality, but we stopped acting like crazy hooligans. OTOH, almost doubling that age, I still feel a little less naive each year.
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Sorry I was unclear, I had meant YC didn't fund that idea because it didn't exist until they were already accepted.

I see your point, that the team is the most important part and YC invested in that. My feeling is that YC can be more effective at funding those types of ideas and teams. That the hit rate can be higher by focusing on a different class of idea. Perhaps that means more pivots or different ideas accepted at the start. I'll try to flesh this out more.

P.S.
Unrelated, but thank you for sharing your thoughts. I appreciate it
Yikes. Or break all that down and get it all for free elsewhere. For a mechanical engineer that doesn't know much about doing this on their own, I suppose it's not a raw deal. I think lots of people make this argument about all those other services "not being free" and while that's true, that seems more to me an excuse for not having learned how to do those things quickly. I can set all that stuff up in a very short amount of time. My cost for doing that is almost nothing. The barrier to entry for that kind of thing goes down extremely quickly, in fact, I'd say the cost is only "high" the first time you do it. Every time after that it costs much, much less.
Is "quarter billion" used to make it sound like a bigger number? Even "half" is aggressive, imo.
Lottery as a service
I worked for a startup for a while. We were doing the same thing. They're still kicking around - VisiKard.com
are you telling me a markov chain came up with these 2 at least billion dollar ideas?
The problem with aluminum for conduction is that (1) it does not like to be clamped down (it tends to back away from the screw terminals so you will have to re-tighten them or use a different clamping mechanism) and (2) it tends to oxidize so even a slight loss of contact will turn into a much higher resistance on the joint.

Copper doesn't have these draw-backs which is why it is used a lot more on the 'low power' side of things.

But for the transmission lines the reduced weight more than offsets all the other issues, those are very well taken care of connections with resistances in the milli-Ohms, an expensive connector is not an issue when it comes to power infrastructure.
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No, 10% ROI would be $115,698 + %10. What you have here is more like a -90% ROI.
Thanks. The reasoning wasn't terribly sound. (Android and Chrome OS overlap regardless of the target hardware).

But from a branding perspective it makes sense to distance a immature product from a widely popular product. (Obviously that wasn't the idea though since Android Auto, Android TV, Android Wear)

I can also see why they wouldn't want to kill off Chrome OS since it allows them to experiment with a diverging set of strengths and features that Android might not be conducive toward. Those strengths could be leveraged in their other products especially Android.
That's impressive, how much solar do you have? (W / Composition of the panels)?
Will there also be a "summit" with auto manufacturers to discuss the prevalence of the Toyota pickup trucks they drive?
I don't get how proxy investors who hold such a tiny percent of a company have so much sway. Can't they just tell them to get lost?
we're already drones. If i wanted to be an ant, i'd join the military.

>lifestyle preferences of the extreme programmer

talking about stereotypes, fashion and fad.

Though the article does state one point which i've always found a funny - software teams/organizations whose job is to build/design complex/network/distributed systems fail to see that they themselves are subject to the same basic rules of complex systems.

Like for example "latency vs. bandwidth" - software organizations everywhere are trying to introduce SCRUM - "latency at all costs" process - in order to increase productivity, ie. bandwidth, and they find themselves in such a deep surprise when productivity is actually falling as result of SCRUM.
Thanks for that link. I found it quite enlightening. I know quite a few sites that have some horrible ui that could benefit from that site.
If only real life had chrome dev tools console such to modify global vars like "winTotal = 100000000".
I think your Apple example is helping to disprove your point.

> I would argue if you replace the current CEO of apple with a random apple SW engineer, the company wouldn't change much.

That's exactly what happened in the 80's - they forced Steve Jobs out, and the company lost all their market share and was on the verge on dying, before he came back.

> Steve jobs died, Apple stock has gone up since his death.

By that time, Steve Jobs knew he was going to die and picked his successor very carefully - Tim Cook is definitely a great choice. Some would argue, however, that Apple is still thriving because of Steve's ideas, and as soon as they run out of them, Apple will start to decline. The jury is still out on that one, however.
Its not exactly the same but its pretty close when the chances are so low anyways.

Playing 10,000 times in 1 drawing gives you the probability of winning the jackpot:

0.00003422297813=10000/292201338

Playing 10,000 times in 10,000 drawings gives you the probability of winning the jackpot:

0.00003422239258=1-((292201338-1)/292201338)^10000

The difference gets more significant if you play more. For 10 million plays its:

.0342 vs .0336

If you play only 100 times the probability of a jackpot is the same to 7 significant digits.

-edit I put it on $1M and let it run. I hit the 5 numbers, $1M prize, at some point around $150k spent.
The so called "smart money" wants them to sell their real estate.
It must be very profitable to be in control of people and to regulate their behavior.

If you can convince people to regulate their own behavior the way you want, all the better. This total surveillance society we're building means more people are looking over their shoulders and not wanting to "get caught" doing something someone else doesn't like. It's pure profits for the plutocrats.
Then, gvim?
oy, that would actually have been a much better way of doing it. I was trying to be clever and keep the UI simple, and totally didn't expect to hit rate limits so quickly.
That's a problem with this specific architecture. If it's not sure what color something is, it goes with an average of all the colors. When a brighter color would be more realistic, even if the exact shade is wrong. Some people have suggested ways of fixing this above.

But just the fact it guesses the right colors at all is really cool. Previous automatic colorizations I've seen were very very crappy or required lots of human input. Or both.

And while these colorized photos do look a bit dull, I like them better than black and white. Something about black and white photography makes it look fake to my brain. It doesn't register the same way. Even really bad colorizations make images feel more real. I once saw very badly colorized video of WWI, and it was really fascinating. I actually felt like I was watching a real event that had actually happened. The same is true for these images.
Exactly. Here's a version of his refactored code which re-replaces the if statements with guard statements: https://gist.github.com/cellularmitosis/9a175facd5fe260403f1
It has. Jails have always been very popular in the FreeBSD world.
This would be useful, not just for fraud, but also just normal business conversations too. Sometimes I've been surprised that the customer is on the email thread (lots of names on the To/CC line). Making it clear about the externals would make this a lot harder to happen.
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if ROI was 10%, winnings would have been ~$127k
Everything except assembly, the motors, and the electronics. It's definitely getting closer but we don't have printers that can actually print themselves just yet.
Put another way, aside from the possible "instantaneous influence" exception above, there are no "hidden variables" or mechanisms under the surface that we just haven't figured out yet. At that level it is truly probabilistic.
As others said, it depends.

I have one application where the CPU literally does nothing other than process switch actions (it turns a double click into a single click), so it goes into deep sleep and pressing a pushbutton is the only thing that wakes it up.
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I saw a theory somewhere that human beings aren't very good at intuitively understanding even large order of magnitude differences between unlikely events. We have a mental category of "unlikely but not impossible" and slot everything from one in a thousand to one in a billion into that bucket.
This article seems interesting, but would be better with some visual support such as graphs showing the changes in trends. It would be even better if there were links to supporting data.
> I'm simply wholly uninspired by everything that Mozilla leadership is trying to inspire me with today. The declining usage of their flagship applications, along with failure to gain traction for new initiatives, indicates that I'm hardly a minority. They need a more focused vision and identity.

I miss being enthusiastic about Firefox. I've used it since it was Phoenix. It was an absolute joy to use until some time in the 2.x series, IIRC. These days? Chrome's snappier, I like its interface better, its extension ecosystem is nearly as good, and it's ~1/10 as likely to make my fan kick on. Safari's so much easier on my battery that it's like the others aren't even trying, so I end up using it most of the time even though it's my least-favorite of the three.

I'd like something that is to Firefox what Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox was to the Mozilla Suite.
And funny enough this doesn't guarantee that you'll even hit the jackpot in that total. Man the lottery can be fun!

(to be clear I'm not implying that you said that total will guarantee a jackpot win)
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How do you want to be treated when you're being a dick to service workers for no reason?
Sure, you can't get completely perfect interop. However a LOT of real C++ codebases don't use or explicitly ban some of the trickiest features, so even partial support can go a long way. For instance, supporting the basic class/vtable layout C++ uses (or even just adopting the C++ ABI for Rust itself here) along with char* strings, would immediately allow you to call into a lot of real C++ APIs, albeit older ones.

Supporting C++ value types, even without templates, would in turn be enough to support quite a lot more. For instance Unreal Engine defines its own string types, as do Qt and so on.
Email is an interesting medium as it is one where if the recipient is in an emotional state then it is completely ineffective. No matter what you write you end up reinforcing the recipients emotional state. There does not seem to be anyway to get a person to calm down and assess the situation rationally via email. I feel the best way to handle a jerk by email is get on the phone and call them if you can.
>Interesting, I haven't heard of those.

Basically they improve blood circulation and prevent varicose vein problems.

My old coach was convinced it improved recovery time for lower-leg muscles after hard training and more or less made us swear to use them as much as possible :)

>It's funny, after you do it long enough your body craves it.

I'm doing daily (well at least 5-6 days a week) walks myself as well, I do between 50-70 minutes depending on how I feel, and yes it does become something of a craving, I typically feel uneasy if I don't get out and walk.

The reason I started was as part of rehabilitation after a knee injury I sustained during sports, and it became a great habit (something good came out of that injury).

This might also play in to avoiding vein issues when standing since you get the leg circulation up and running during high pace walks.
Absolutely true. I wasn't a jerk to people in retail before I worked a crappy job as an ice cream server, but I didn't really care about how they were treated. One summer dealing with customer bullshit changed that real quick.
What is hard about authentication? This was trivial along time ago with mutt and it was still trivial in recent years with thunderbird+enigmail. If your complain is that your favorite email client doesn't support pubkey authentication, complain to the vendor.

The only thing that should even be relevant re: usability is the need to occasionally enter a password. This is even minimized with gpg-agent (or similar), which we can assume is something that would be setup by IT anyway along with everything else related to email.

> C suite

Then educate them about the need. Even better, educate the lawyers about why authorizing large purchases (i.e. the type of scam currently being discussed) without proper authentication is an unacceptable risk.

> it can't help to prevent things like this

While you cannot fix a stupid CxO, the problem of deciding if a particular email claiming to to be from that CxO authorizing a purchase order is actually from that CxO is easy.

Remember, we only need to solve the internal case, where it is easy to setup PKI. I believe there are even several solutions already available[1] for directory services and key management. Run some sort of local directory service and a local CA and a decent email client should make authentically completely transparent for internal emails.
Probably with respect?
Please stop controlling user scrolling.
Question: With a jackpot of $800mil and the chances of winning 1 in ~300mil, could you not buy 300mil tickets? (Excepting, of course, the risk that someone else wins and the cost of taxes).
I learned and used C at school. It appreciate what I learned but using it in the right way, using the latest functionality available, considering machine portability along with safe coding guidelines of code would have been better.
1. The odds of succeeding at a startup are a lot better than 292 million to 1.

2. You get a paycheck, even if it's less than market rate.

3. It's fun and exciting to use someone else's money to try to come up with a new business type.
“Purified water” or “purified drinking water” is probably the best bet. Sounds neutral and it’s already on water bottle labels.
Playing dumb can be effective disarming others who might otherwise percieve you as a threat.

Shady character asking you for time, cigarette, etc.

"Nah bruh, shit I need one too, you got one? My bad fam."

This has gotten me out of questionable situations during the wrong hours out in Brooklyn/Manhattan inner city areas.
> I also learnt not to take it personally

I think this is a big one. When I am upset and calling Comcast (as an example that I think most people can relate to) it's always a frustrating customer experience. When I catch myself getting angry, I always try to tell the tech I'm talking to: "Listen, I'm sorry I'm snappy. It's obviously not you, it's your company's process that is making me angry" and try to make sure they understand that. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but as a customer, I try really hard to make that difference clear.
Bizspark or dreamspark.
I suspect the simulator will run until well after the actual drawing (it just doesn't play fast enough to burn through that much cash).
If you play quickdraw you could get the same numbers twice. I think with that caveat the odds should be the same.