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Who I note basically decided to start from scratch because this docker thing happened. Cloud Foundry has had to do a lot of re-thinking too.

But my impression of openshift is that it's really a work in progress and that they haven't actually gotten it adequately productized yet.

Docker has gotten enough developer buy-in into containerization that I think it's fundamentally changed what it means to do infrastructure, be it PaaS or IaaS or whatever.
Sure, but he was incredibly smart.
One can generally convert all things to dollars. There's generally a price you can offer to convince someone to do most things, such as your example of spending time away from family.

Sure, money can't buy happiness, humans are weird about non-transitive preferences (if a is preferred to b and b is preferred to c, it turns out that sometimes c is preferred to a), and some things like ethics end up at infinite dollar value... but whatever, this is just a model. You can make it as complex/realistic as you think is necessary.
The bulk of this is various biographical anecdotes about Marvin Minsky; perhaps the HN submission title might reflect that?
Unless the EU is willing to resort to options 2 or 3 (which very obviously would require limiting the options/rights of Europeans), it will have to accept that is has no control over services with no legal presence in the EU. In proceeding with option 1, it would be creating a strong incentive for companies to find a friendlier jurisdiction, further exacerbating Europe's labor and entrepreneurial malaise. Yes, all of the big tech companies have European offices today, but 1) they're huge corporations that can afford regulatory compliance, and 2) they might not have opened those offices in the current regulatory climate.

Access to the European labor market and datacenters, and the ability to have salesmen on the ground, might very well outweigh the costs (and foregone profits) of the EU's proposed data regulations, for some companies. But Europe, already over-burdened with regulations and taxes, as evidenced by stagnant growth and massive youth unemployment, is just digging itself into an ever-deeper hole. There is such thing as death by a thousand cuts.
I know. you don't understand. it's probably better that way.

People aren't supposed to go pro se anymore. it's either derided or discredited. I and many others still do.

If you did a little sleuthing on me, you could find out exactly who I am, and what I do when I'm not running a website.

some people stumble on the truth, and keep on jogging. Good luck with that path.
There's no doubt that people of means need to invest more in general, not specifically in talented individuals. There are trillions of dollars being horded and even a fraction of that could enable an extraordinary increase in invention and discovery.
In my view what we're really talking about here is PaaS. Every shop is left to implement a private PaaS on their own for the most part. There are software companies out there who specialize in helping teams deploy this kind of architecture for example:

https://pivotal.io/platform

http://deis.io/

both are open source technologies based on Docker that are gathering momentum and you can hire consultants to help you deploy either one.

I personally don't use Docker. The startup I'm building has chosen to standardize on the JVM for all application code so we leverage the JAR file as a kind of container. The Java ecosystem already solved the problem of zero-downtime deployments a long time ago so for us deploying can be as simple as shipping new jars file across the network.

Instead of using Docker to drive development we simply spin up development database/redis/etc instances in the cloud which automatically join a development VPN network. All of the non-VPN interfaces are automatically firewalled off. One nice advantage of this setup is that developers who have slow laptops are still able to work. I'm a big fan of this approach.

Check out Wildfly's "High Availablity" features if you're interested in one way that the Java Ecosystem can make headaches like zero-downtime deployment, HTTP health checks, monitoring, caching, and even load balancing disappear.. It'll deploy non-java code too as long as it's on the JVM. If you're a Scala only shop there are some great Scala-only alternatives available to boot.
It looks interesting! I loved the TV series--but was sad about all of the copyright issues it faced.
> I'm not sure you can get credit for being involved if your involvement is looking at what others are doing and saying "Ok"

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Trying to create battle-tested, pre-packaged, "batteries included" DevOps solutions is exactly what we're trying to do at Atomic Squirrel [1]. We think there needs to be a middle ground between Platform as a Service (PaaS), like Heroku, where everything is hidden and magical, and therefore, harder to debug, customize, scale, and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), like AWS, where you have full power and flexibility, but also way too many moving parts to learn and manage for a small company. If your company needs something like this, contact us at info@atomic-squirrel.net.

[1] http://www.atomic-squirrel.net/
If you're interested in the CIA's involvement with the UFO phenomena check out this article on the Robertson Panel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robertson_Panel

“(t)he "debunking" aim would result in reduction in public interest in "flying saucers" which today evokes a strong psychological reaction. This education could be accomplished by mass media such as television, motion pictures, and popular articles. Basis of such education would be actual case histories which had been puzzling at first but later explained. As in the case of conjuring tricks, there is much less stimulation if the "secret" is known. Such a program should tend to reduce the current gullibility of the public and consequently their susceptibility to clever hostile propaganda. The Panel noted that the general absence of Russian propaganda based on a subject with so many obvious possibilities for exploitation might indicate a possible Russian official policy….The Panel took cognizance of the existence of such groups as the "Civilian Flying Saucer Investigators" (Los Angeles) and the "Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (Wisconsin). It was believed that such organizations should be watched because of their potentially great influence on mass thinking if widespread sightings should occur. The apparent irresponsibility and the possible use of such groups for subversive purposes should be kept in mind.”
Wow, that's weird. I downloaded the score in question (https://musescore.com/opengoldberg/scores/719586) and opened it in MuseScore, and found that for some reason that's the way the score's style controls were set. The "Barline to note distance" (under the Style menu in MuseScore, choose "General…", and then click "Measure" on the left) is by default 1.2 times the space between two lines of the staff. But in this score, it's 0.6! I have no idea why—changing that parameter back to the default seems to yield a much better layout.

There's also something else going on with that screenshot, though. The person who took it put page breaks in different places than in the actual score, which is why that tempo marking is overlapping. If you open that same score in MuseScore, the tempo marking is positioned appropriately.
There's at least one hipster in every crowd that does crap like this. thanks for being that guy.
Wow, the reveal was pretty intense. I was not expecting it to be that Rumsfeld! ... and now to go download the game....

Or not. iOS only: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/churchill-solitaire/id103080...
I doubt it was anything Area 51 related. They have a large highly restricted airspace over Nevada to fly around in. However, Apple Valley is even closer to Edwards Air Force Base which has a long history of flight test including things like Chuck Yeager's supersonic flight, and for that matter the Virgin Galactic spaceship:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwards_Air_Force_Base

Many interesting things like the B-2 and the space shuttle were also produced in Palmdale (to the west of Apple Valley). You often see interesting things flying around that area.

EDIT: Virgin Galactic has nothing directly to do with Edwards, but they test in that airspace.
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Mr Rumsfeld, it's cool that you're doing this and all but I believe the title you're looking for is "I Decided to Commission An App"!
For those looking for their daily dose of snark, I encourage you to read the comment section. Excellent stuff.

For those more curious: I like how he said developed but there's not a clear indication what kind of work he did to result in the app. My guess is minimal.
That's a somewhat obsolete belief – people have been scanning arbitrary ports for many, many years and SSH daemons helpfully announce themselves to search engines:

https://www.shodan.io/report/uMZDnWfT

This is a long-running problem and one with various popular solutions: restrict the source networks which you accept traffic for, disable password authentication entirely, and add some sort of rate limiting (e.g. 2004's fail2ban) for failures. Trying to reduce log volume by obscurity is futile - you really need to address the root problem and use tools which allow you to filter and aggregate effectively.
That's the short answer, but to elaborate, it probably has more to do with the culture surrounding the language than the overhead of the JVM, although that also plays a role. What I mean by "culture" is the widespread notion (cargo-cult?) among Java programmers that adding more classes and abstraction is always better, almost like a "best practice", leading to "enterprise" monstrosities with deep inheritance hierarchies and ridiculous amounts of indirection to accomplish the simplest of tasks. The low consideration given to memory management in general (there's a GC, but that doesn't mean you should abandon all thought about memory allocation --- an analogy I like to use is how it's possible to get as good fuel economy with an automatic transmission as a manual, with the right technique) also contributes to the bloat.

The JVM itself has a certain amount of unavoidable overhead, but even if it was e.g. 10x slower than native code at best, I don't think that's the main problem. I've used systems that were more than 10x slower in benchmark-terms and had less than 1/10th the memory, yet felt much more responsive and performant. The problem is the culture that encourages this massive resource waste and selfish conservation of developer's time --- at the expense of everyone else.
Nevertheless isn't docx an ECMA and ISO standard? [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML
I love Android but I really agree with this statement regarding responsiveness. Unfortunately I see this the most when using the Android Camera app. It just randomly lags now, causing me to miss special moments. I have no idea what is going on. I've searched all the corners of the internet and there's no good way to troubleshoot this.
Yeah but that's why it would be interesting. Solving a rubics cube quickly is interesting from a human standpoint, for a purpose built machine not so much.... I mean its doubtful that the majority of the competitors wrote the software algorithm to solve the cube... What they bring is the mechanics behind it... But really if the professional robotics orgs got involved they would probably just outclass the record holders... Thing is that they arent even interested because their is No money in it and its just not that interesting a robotics challenge
Especially when your users are your employees, so they have no choice but to "accept" whatever system you make them use.
Yes.

https://web.archive.org/web/20111006084129/http://news.ycomb...
This article seems to miss the point of SemVer. Quoting the spec: "1. Software using Semantic Versioning MUST declare a public API." If one is talking about a website or a GUI application, SemVer doesn't apply in the first place.

After all, the point of the thing is to solve dependency hell - it's only meaningful for things that other code can declare dependencies against.
Having used both git and mercurial extensively I can guarantee you the index is not a needless complication, it is a feature sorely missed in hg.
Israel has seen a lot of immigration: http://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/charts/fore...
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Yes, I think it would work better that way. Just think of Uber; they raised $8 billion.

With that kind of money, we could have funded 100K small startups for 1 year ($80K each).
That's a lot of startups!

I think funding fewer companies with more money is a good short-term strategy (in terms of buying competitive advantage) but not good in the long-run.

I don't think Uber will be able to maintain a monopoly once the hype dies down. Once the hype has faded, competitors will come up and eat into Uber's business - For example, Google, Tesla and Apple might all have their own dedicated networks of self-driving cars to drive people around and Uber may become redundant.

Uber's valuation would deflate and most of those $8 billion would have been wasted.
Marvin Minsky – Artificial Intelligence and the Future of the Human Mind
These kinds of things can happen surprisingly easily in the real-world. The most common cause is "target leaks", which happen when the thing you are trying to predict accidentally ends up in your dataset, usually indirectly through some non-obvious process. Neural networks are especially good learners, and will perform suspiciously well in these situations.

There's often no way to know exactly what a neural network is doing, but sanity checks can catch most issues. Realistically, you wouldn't expect a neural network to perform with 100% accuracy, which would be a first clue in your example.
What's a drag-coefficient in this context? What, specifically, are you seeing that's somehow preventing you from participating equally?
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Meteor isn't just another yeoman.

It's better to understand it as the cathedral to npm's bazaar. Everything down to the third-party packages is cohesive and never needs any wiring up or glue-code.

That's where the productivity gains come from.
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I like front door :)
If you want to declare a delta between some hypothetical distribution and the actual distribution "wealth transfer", have at it. That is certainly irrefutable, albeit mathematically vacuous.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10921459
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10967578

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10964902
Agreed...given the resources and money there's nothing wrong with hedging your bets...
I think that's interesting as well. I would have guessed he was a Neat from his talks and his admiration of AGI because it implies he agrees there will have to be a succinct theory of general intelligence/consciousness.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Warm_Period

The good thing about climate change is that 20% or so more of the planet is inhabitable, which has a list of advantages that is incredibly long.
>Ethical approval Not required
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I had the same kinds of problems with my chromebook. It would freeze up, mouse pointer and all. Sometimes it would come back after a couple of minutes, other times it wouldn't. Sometimes the whole OS would die and it would reboot.

The wifi was flaky at best, often refusing to connect when my nexus 5x right beside it had no problems. Browsing the filesystem was an exercise in madness. My Amiga 500 running at 7MHz was MUCH more responsive. I used a stopwatch to time 27 seconds from double click to actual display of a jpeg image in the image viewer.

I averaged about two OS crash/forced reboots per day on it until I finally gave up and got a macbook.
very sad, he was a great man.
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Id suggest adding some info/examples/screenshots, to your website.

What can the landing page contain? What does it look like? What options does a user have? All things someone that is interested may want to know before singing up and linking to GitHub.
I wrote the parent comment, and I actually think his reply was worthwhile. Ideas are things that should be challenged IMO
It depends on your text editor! I, for one, use C-a for home and C-e for end.
Because the government denies it.
So sad. I wanted him to survive until a true AI breakthrough happens, which seems so close (granted for many decades now, but that's why).
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I met Minsky once in February 1987, at a rally in Las Vegas to protest the Nevada Test Site.. A lot of famous people (Carl Sagan, Barbara Boxer, Tom Downey, Ramsey Clark, Martin Sheen, Kris Kristofferson) were there, but I'd gone to meet Minsky.

I had taken along a (quite early) copy of the GNU Emacs manual. The FSF was selling them, but I'd put this one together myself. Running TeX on the texinfo source, converting the output for the Imagen printer, and then taking it to Kinko's to be spiral bound, including my imitation of the yellow cover that the FSF version had.

I asked Minsky for his autograph. He looked at what I presented, understood what it was, an autographed inside the front cover, "Marvin Minsky, friend of Stallman".

In April of 2011 in an airport in Honolulu, I presented that same manual for an autograph to Richard Stallman. He looked my manual over for a long time. IIRC, it documents Emacs version 16 or 17. Then he signed it, below Minsky's autograph,
"Richard M. Stallman - Friend of Minsky"

RIP, Marvin.
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It's not about brand name. It's about being proven in production use.

This is why Google's brand doesn't mean much in Angular's case (since most of their own products do not use Angular).
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Well humans mourn their dead, but also there is a more practical reason if you'd like:

When I see a black bar on Hacker News, it serves as an alert to me to scan the news more carefully. Although I knew who McCarthy was, Jobs, etc, I didn't know this person. The black bar alerted me that someone in this community that is considered quite an influence died. Now I'm reading all about the person in various articles. The black bar helped to alert me to that.
More like tricked the media into thinking the app was real. Social networks had banned their domain name, due to too many postings/spammings of it. But people still talked about it because it was controversial. An app that matches you up to other people to fight. Sort of a Fight Club app rather than Tinder for fighting. One that was a mockup that lead to their real web page and campaign.

I'm sure they could have made a real app that matches people up with other people to fight, but there would be a big liability if people got hurt in those fights. There also could be criminal charges as well for provoking assault and battery.

It just shows how gullible the media is to believe almost any project is real, and how some people will just fund anything even if it is a bad idea that leads to liabilities from getting people to fight each other.

Still there are things to learn from it to get the media's attention. Like writing to new media companies about your app, getting people involved to promote your app, making a mock up first before writing your app so people will know what it should look like when finished, testing it out on a web app first before making the mobile app, etc.
Just to inject some data into the conversation, see the third graph on this page http://www.electproject.org/home/voter-turnout/demographics/. It indicates that the turnout rate for the 18-29 age group is at the lowest it's been since at least 1986 (this is as far back as the charted data goes). 18-29 is also the age group with the lowest participation, relative to other age cohorts. I think the charts were made using data found here: http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/socdemo/voting/

As I've said before, politicians respond to incentives just like everyone else. Don't expect them to give a crap about you if you don't give them a reason to give a crap about you.
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I love Alan Kay, but he's just wrong there.

And since the PC and Android are not locked down - why don't we see the magic there?
It sounds like he could reasonably be considered the game designer. Considering the number of people in their 50's let alone 80's who've never bothered to learn the first thing about technology, I'm pretty inclined to give him a pass on getting the terminology 100% right.
Actually working on an open source solution around this exact space.

I think the space between Heroku and AWS remains to be solved and lots of companies will jump on the train (if it's good and fast enough).
Sure - but that definition of 'dangerous' is palatable for loggers in a way that disease carrying insects are not.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_hangout
There's a paywall?
It says:

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The site does not appear to be a news site or link aggregator site, nor does it seem to be a health related site. The "About Us" info is not really enlightening. It appears that the site has something to do with programming challenges, and finding jobs.

In short, it is unclear to me why an article about diabetes would even be there. This submission is confusing.
> As president, my most important job is to keep the American people safe

The author, er, the President is incorrect. His most important job is to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. He says this constantly, and, politics aside, it is important for every American to remember what the actual duty of the President is, as affirmed when sworn into office.

Side note: Why is this on HN?
> We have temporarily misplaced a great mind. See you later, Professor Minsky.

This kind of statement gives me great hope, and in particular represents the kind of fundamental mindset change that helps counter many of the painful aphorisms commonly pulled out when someone dies. I find it deeply unfortunate how rarely it applies, but as mentioned elsewhere in the thread, it applies here. Thank you.
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Ah - so you're going to conveniently label it as 'sarcasm' now that it suits you.

If it's sarcasm, then it doesn't stand as an argument and my original point goes unrefuted. You can't have it both ways.
Churchill was the game designer. Rumsfeld is the Khing.com in this story.
> As someone that has experimented with polyphasic sleep, I'd like to see some studies designed in such a way that they mirror what people actually do when they switch to one of these schedules. That is to say allow for an adjustment period.

Fwiw, I agree with you in so far as your logic goes.

However, as it can would be fatal based on the main stream understanding of how sleep deprivation works, I can't say I'd support such a study since it would likely kill at least one person and/or otherwise fuck up their health seriously.
Because according to the guidelines:

》 On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. (Emphasis mine)

If it's on the front page, enough people have found it interesting and within the guidelines.
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