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> Nobody who built containers before Docker came along shipped an operating system in the image. Now we have gigabytes of Ubuntu alongside nginx thanks to Docker. Cool.

This couldnt be more false - other systems had containers capabilities for years now (FreeBSD Jails, Solaris Zones, IBM LPAR's, Linux OpenVZ and so on) and since forever it was done in a way of running another full OS inside a container. Stripping that down to single processes was possible and done by some people but rarely, because it was relatively hard (since it often required hand-crafting the 'packages', hunting down single libs and their requirements using ldd and the like).
I myself was running both full OS jail containers on FreeBSD and stripped down single process/service jails more than 10 years ago.
Why Russian Government Should Forget about the Blockchain Technology
Obviously oil price has 0 correlation with cost of shipping.
People of old age do become infertile. 50% of the population has a 100% chance of becoming infertile before they are even 'old'.

Genes don't care about the old. They care about reproduction.
I absolutely will not defend Keynes or any other idea in economics, inasmuch as they can possibly be implemented in the political process that decide on economic policies.

That said, I do not think this is a case of a bad economist.

Economics theory is theory... theory that attempts to quantify societal behaviour, various cooperation dynamics, measurable output, etc. None of them know how to deal with various problems like "quality" & "technology" even though all economists admit they are pretty important. These theories usually have money playing a central role in some way). Anyway, they're theories about people acting together in big groups economics calls markets.

Political dynamics is another piece of the puzzle. So is every other meme in society. In some place homosexuals are allowed by society. In some places it is banned. Why now? Why not in 1750 or 2235? There are theories about how to quantify and predict here too, but obviously the ability of theories about such things are not up to the task of making consistent predictions.

Asimov's "psychohistory" is a fictional discipline which is basically economics, historical determinism, political science etc. The fictional twist is that these theories can make consistent predictions within very usable margins of error.
Git itself is exactly such an append-only system, and it's one of the most reliable and useful tools ever. What's the problem?
Team Formation: how the band comes together
Small research grants for students/independent researchers.

I'd suggest something like 5k for a 3 months project. Applicant has to hand in a short proposal in the beginning and publish his code/data/results as open source. There are many great research ideas to work on independently today (e. g. in AI), but it's pretty much impossible to get money/recognition for that. For example, such a program would enable students to work on their own idea during the summer break (and in some cases produce something valuable for others), instead of doing some meaningless stuff at an internship.
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Can we add some nuance here? It is not like in the last few decades there has been no new knowledge generated.

Just in my own field of biology, the amount of progress we have made in understanding how cells regulate themselves (20 year ago we were still teaching DNA->RNA->PROTEINS that do stuff), how immune systems function and can be used (stem cell therapy, cancer treatments, HIV drugs) and the flow of genetic information between organisms (the advance of (whole) genome sequencing into becoming a generic tool) has been mind-boggling.
Agreed.

Something I've been thinking about for a while is: what would it mean for peoples' willingness to save another person from a burning building, or swim to rescue someone drowning at sea, or donate a kidney, etc, if we all developed a sense of entitlement that we should be able to live forever?

When so many people at all levels of society are unable to enjoy the lives they have, I feel that life extension research is not something that should be a high priority for investment.
I think hn needs a concept like r/bestof. It's the only way I get to find the really good user content in Reddit. There's no way I'd see most of that stuff otherwise.

In fact the main reason I read hn comments is the hope of finding comment gems posted by an expert in the field, someone with a unique perspective on an issue, or someone with a heretical but plausible idea.
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> That's completely worthless. C is also memory-safe if you stay within the rules for memory safety.

It's really not any weaker of a guarantee than Rust makes, being memory-safe if you stay within the rules of not saying `unsafe`. Or opening /proc/self/mem for writing, anyway.

I'd also feel a lot better about Rust's moral highground of memory safety if its undefined behavior was actually spelled out a bit more rather than just punting the hard parts to llvm docs. I don't think every Rust user knows how to avoid aliasing problems between `&mut` and `*mut` either.
Aren't we those people in the poster? Didn't they become us?
The music camp alone is $900 to attend, with 50 students, and probably fills. That's 45K gross for a 5 day gig - I'd imagine they make 1/3 to 1/5 of that in rent:

https://oldschoolbluegrasscamp.wordpress.com/register/

I couldn't find a time when their AirBNB sites weren't booked, but they probably command a premium given the size and amenities and tolerance for animals/kids.

The math on a lot of this appears to be a lot of "slow and steady"
... And that is democracy?

Did he concede because he lost (as in didn't get the votes)? or because the media had made his win too illegitimate to claim?
Eich, former head of Mozilla, returns with Chromium browser that replaces ads
No, that's product placement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_placement
Mark Zuckerberg now world's sixth richest person
Read more on www.idotob.com

Mark Zuckerberg has become the world's richest
person and fourth wealthiest in the Unites States -
while he was on two-month paternity leave.
The Facebook CEO's wealth soared to $47.9 billion
this week after the social media website's stock
climbed 12 per cent following a strong quarterly
earnings report, according to Forbes.
The 31-year-old Harvard graduate is now the
youngest person on the world's top ten richest list
where he sits above Google founder Larry Page,
the Koch brothers and most recently, Oracle's
Larry Ellison.
Zuckerberg only entered the top ten list at the end
of last year when he was catapulted from 14th in
2014 into seventh on the strength of his
impressive fortune. He is also now ranked as the
fourth richest in the Unites States.
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is still the richest
person in the world. His fortune currently stands
at $76.2 billion.
Behind Gates is Zara founder Amancio Ortega who
has a real time net worth of around $68.4 billion.
Last year, Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan,
announced a $120 million donation to improve
education in the San Francisco Bay area,
particularly for low-income students. It came five
years after donating $100 million to remake
education in Newark.
The Facebook founder has been on paternity leave
since the birth of his daughter, Maxima, with wife
Priscilla Chan, in November when his net worth
was estimated at $47.1 billion.
> don't fucking act like its free time

Do companies act like it's "free" time? My impression was that it's intended to be free time to focus on projects of your choosing, but still things that will (or may) benefit the company. This is a far cry from free time to work on personal endeavors which you seem to be describing.
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I agree with them. I work in an academic setting where accessibility is important, and Bootstrap makes a hash of semantics, which is bad for assisted reading systems that need it for navigation.
>people who self-build homes

There seem to be some people doing it. I've been reading about this a bit lately, and also had been to a remote place recently, where someone had built a rather big "earthship" and was living pretty much off the grid. It looked, very roughly, like the Brighton Earthship shown in the Example section here, but was round, not rectangular:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthship
It works as expected, unfortunally there is zero seeders for the videos... :-(
Hmm, if I remember right, on our compiler course we wre taught to build tokenizer with regexpes. As far as I unrestand, it is quite valid tool for that.
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Amen to that, friend :-) First thing on programming class in the eighties-nineties:

"Fit all functions on one screen."

At that time that was roughly 22 lines depending on editor used.
I love this, but would prefer they didn't re-use the "invalid certificate" icon.

As a devs, we use self signed certificates for building our products and we have trained QA to ignore the HTTPS with a slash through it as an error that is acceptable in dev.

(And ourselves for that matter)

That makes this one easy to miss.

My preference would be a browser-level warning bar to roll out over the page. Like the one used in 'this plugin is not installed'

This is a huge error and its much harder to miss that way.
what does the shipping news know about world economy?

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This is happening in CA
No. Did I imply that I did?

But again. They do things differently. There is unjust percsecution of Lawyers in China (I am not surprised). There are are unjust invasions of countries by "The West" (also, not surprised).

My point is, there is no moral superiority, just political agendas and sides to be chosen/avoided. I think reading news about china (especially if it's in english) is to realise that fact. (Same advice goes to chinese reading news about anything if it's in chinese ;) ).
Research into off label uses of unpatented drugs.

(Inspired by the article recently posted here which pointed out that although a drug is being used off label to treat phobias, there is no incentive for a company to get that use certified.)
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There's is some government spending that has to be done anyway, but can be shifted in time so it's done when there's a recession.
Things like bridge rebuilding or warships.

Of course, if you're in recession for 8 years, you start running out of such things.
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I much prefer https://i.reddit.com/ though
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Not 20%, but I got the manager to give us 2 hours every Friday. I guess that would be 5% time. I was doing C# enterprise work at the time, so I would use those 2 hours on totally different stuff; like brushing up on C++, or dicking around with Perl.
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Self-Driving Cars in 10 Years? How $4B Could Make It a Reality
> You are literally there to serve the company in exchange for money. [...] If you want a lot of free time, then you can find a part-time freelance job and work from home.

Fully agree with the premise — you are a servant meant to obey orders. But there's another conclusion: try to set aside time for freedom regardless of what Big Boss says.

For example, everything is negotiable: how much they surveil or micro-command you. Or if you consider yourself an adult, you simply do what you think best, with whatever expedient little tricks to keep the local bureaucrat happy.

(Obviously, this advice is not intended for those who identify with the boss. Most know the ways the deck is stacked against them, for example bosses colluding to weaken their bargaining power, or simply being born in a time in history where they must be servants to have a decent life.)
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WordPress isn't moving away from PHP, you'd have to be completely unaware of WP to draw that conclusion. For starters, the REST API that will power JS based clients is built in PHP. The actions and filters API which is the bread and butter of thousands of plugins is all PHP.
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Facebook takes a shot at gun sellers
Then why did the US publically admit to spying on Israel during the Iran talks? Why did Israel deploy Duqu 2 to spy on the Iran talks?
Yeah, but they used "React.js, because we're cool, please think we're cool". Which is different from just "react.js".

Just look at how incompetently the site was redesigned: https://github.com/reddit/reddit-mobile/issues/247

45 seconds load time...

There's also the tiny buttons(obviously not mobile-first, even if it is a mobile-only redesign).

And of course, the poster child of "we are doing complex JS stuff, but still think that JS is for kids, so we didn't bother learning how to actually do it". I'm talking about the infamous "We built a single-page-app, but it doesn't always work right, and the back button is kind of broken, and it sometimes treats scrolling over a thing as clicking on that thing".
Azure Stack, Microsoft’s on-premises cloud service is now available as a preview
Vasalgel, a 100% effective, permanent but (hopefully) fully reversible non-surgical, non-hormonal male contraceptive. It's a variation of the Indian RISUG formulation, being pushed through the US testing gauntlet by a non-profit organisation. They're specifically looking for "social investors" at this time as they approach clinical trials:

> But now that Vasalgel has passed the “proof of concept” phase, it’s time to kick it up a notch — without selling out or losing the social mission of affordability and wide availability. We’re starting an all-out push to hire top medical device people and bring in social investors interested in both moving things forward quickly, and in keeping the end result affordable.

http://www.parsemusfoundation.org/contraceptives/clinical-tr...
Isn't servo, which I assume where most of your Rust code lives by now, trading some safety to un-"cripple" Rust by having GC-backed smart pointers that allow for uses-after-free if they aren't used correctly?
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Iran showing off new video to say it flew a drone over a U.S. aircraft carrier
Therapies after the SENS model will be mass-produced infusions (gene therapies, small molecule drugs, etc) coupled with some personalized stuff based on growing cells from a cell sample. It will be the same treatment for everyone, and subject to economies of scale that are the same as for today's drugs. Most will cost a few dollars per treatment after being in circulation for a few decades, the same as mass produced generic drugs today, and 30 years further into autologous stem cell therapies, those also will cost a lot less than the few thousand that they do now.

People have done the modeling on what radical life span does to population growth. The answer is a lot less than you think. See: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3192186/ "For example, we applied the cohort-component method of population projections to 2005 Swedish population for several scenarios of life extension and a fertility schedule observed in 2005. Even for very long 100-year projection horizon, with the most radical life extension scenario (assuming no aging at all after age 60), the total population increases by 22% only (from 9.1 to 11.0 million)."

Most of the objections of the type that you voice can be answered by moving you to 1850 and making the same objections to the progress of medicine, and then seeing that they are obviously false concerns given where we are today. You could argue in 1920 that the same objections exist to building treatments that prevent people dying from heart disease: isn't it just for rich people, won't there be too many people if the old don't die on time, what would they do with all those extra years, isn't the present length of life just right, etc, etc.
> When police use encrypted radio channels, they can't interoperate with EMS, other agencies or in disaster zones. So becomes a problem.

Depends on the system. TETRA (used in europe) can be optionally encrypted, so the police can have radios with encryption for their talk groups, but still do unencrypted communications with the medical or fire services.

Around here, they run it with encryption off though, because apparently the key management is a pain in the ass and I guess the criminals they mostly interact with aren't the types to sit around with RTL-SDR dongles capturing their voice comms.
Have a look at what Keynes wrote in 1930. "Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren." http://www.econ.yale.edu/smith/econ116a/keynes1.pdf
A rule of thumb is trucking spends 1/3 on fuel, more efficient rail spends 1/4 on fuel. Shipping is even more efficient, so its likely under 1/4 total costs.

(edited to emphasize that if fuel cost magically dropped to zero, costs could not drop more than perhaps 20%. And fuel has dropped, but not to magical zero)

Capex and maintenance are expensive.
In the early sixties there was a great famine in China where an estimated 15-45 million civilians starved to death.

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

I oppose any form of Socialism, but even I have to admit that China has improved far beyond anything we could have imagined 30 years ago.

It is now one of the largest economies in the world. People have housing, education and access to medical care. No one is starving there anymore.

And not only did they improve their own standard of living, they now go about investing in large scale infrastructure in Africa which has the potential to improve the lives of millions there in the long run.
Batteries for mobile devices that charge really fast and last really long.
What are you suggesting here? Forgoing the building of civilian infrastructure and military assets until a recession is what?

Also, if you have data supporting your hypothesis, I would be very interested to see it.
This reminds me of Ted Cruz's statistical "evidence" that over a 17 year period, the Earth is not warming. Because he started his 17 year period by including an unusually warm year, thereby significantly changing the outcome of the average. Had he looked at a 16-year or 18-year average, his "evidence" works against him.

Also like the "lesswrong" folks who use statistics to make grand claims. Statistics is not a looking glass. It is a math that is only as useful as the wisdom of its practitioner, and can lead to false confidence.
France to build 1000 km of roads with solar panels
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I have 80% time, i.e. I only spend about 20% of my time on my clients.

To hell with this wage employment bullshit. Keep your productivity and the fruits thereof for yourself. Don't give them away for a pittance to an employer, who probably also made you sign an agreement that they get to take anything you make, whether you made it on their time or not.
https://lab.getbase.com/cracking-java-base-coding-interview/ Base's view on interviewing ;)
A VPN will help, but it only encrypts your connections to the point where your VPN is terminated, then it's off to the wider internet with no encryption. Same, but worse, for your home network. MITM can be done in other ways than hijacking connections on the LAN.

Note that the problem isn't just with the updater, but with the update checker. That means that merely running these apps makes you vulnerable, if you've configured them to automatically check for updates (usually the default). You don't have to actually update, just have an automatic check performed.

To be safe from this, you'll want to disable automatic update checks in the settings for each app. Of course, running the app to do this is dangerous, but the odds of being targeted in this small window are low, especially if you avoid easy targets like public WiFi while doing it. If you want to be extremely paranoid, you can disconnect from the internet first. Once the app makers publish updates, you can update out of band by downloading the new version directly from their web site (over https, hopefully) and then you can safely re-enable automatic update checking.
From my experience: You usually need 2 dongles and the software under Linux to do it is barely existing unfortunately.
It's perhaps more egregious because the article leads with Volvo truck orders falling to approximately zero in a 99% one year drop.

This anchors the reader to misread 50% reductions from peak over the past five years and leaved reasons for the spikes which created the peaks unexamined.

One thing is clear is that the article doesn't point to a Volvo.
I already do that, and My boss is aware. When it is necessary to fix things quickly or do scouting or in general problem solving your time invested returns, but you are faster.
also: Wekit Nightly, Dash
I've always had the idea for a comment system where you can only down vote with a comment on why, and that comments down vote power depends on its votes.
I have implemented CBOR for Python and Go. In my testing:
CBOR+GZIP is slightly smaller, about 10%, than JSON+GZIP
CBOR also parses faster, sometimes as much as 3-5x speedup.

I'm not sure what 'ambiguous decoding' you're referring to. I've seen some complains that an int might decode to an int32 or int64 depending on the value but be different than the original storage size. e.g. '42' stored from an int64 might unpack to an int8 depending on the language and implementation of the decoder.
This sounds like a good idea and is solving part of the problem (getting funding), I suspect solving prestige will be harder though - it's not just money that drives it (YC may be in a unique position to be able to grant prestige).

Scientists want to be published in 'Nature' because it's good for their career (citations) and respect from peers. If there was a way to fix that incentive where it was more prestigious to do the research in the open and by collaborating (like FOSS development) that would be a big win.
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AMD is apparently valuated at ~$5B
If you're going paranoid mode, do it properly. GP pointed out that you're about to run a program from an unknown. That's a bigger issue than some devil doing MITM or whatnot.
I remember playing Glider 4 on our Mac Plus and on the Colour Classic... it was a fantastic game. Everyone in our family was addicted. I remember coming home from school, and my dad would show me something new he found out, like a hidden room or how to get past a particularly tricky passage. I'd compete with my sisters and we tried to beat each others high scores. Sometimes I managed the reach the top spot, but it was never for long, since my mom would always play all night and beat everyones high score. She had developed tricks for every room to get the highest time bonus -- watching her play the game was fascinating.

My dad was the first to beat the game. It was such an incredible experience. After mastering that tricky bit with the drop and the basketball, the rooms got easier, the house slowly became empty, you saw the thunderstorm outside, then the glider started to move in a rocking fashion, and then there was the open window, and the ending animation with the glider, free at last, gliding into the dark...

What a game. Thanks John Calhoun!
I would say they invest heavily in narrow AI like Apple and Microsoft, Amazon, etc. However, AGI is rarely dealt with.
I might have recommended Linode "oh so many years ago" too.

I think you should ask HD and Fyodor again what they think about Linode in 2016.
Obama outlines $4B ‘Computer Science for All’ education plan
Accessibility is important for us too. What do you use if you don't mind sharing? There is a accessibility plugin for bootstrap from Paypal [1]. Have you ever tried it? Thanks.

[1] https://github.com/paypal/bootstrap-accessibility-plugin