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> Any reason on 60 drives instead of 70 or more?

One step at a time. :-) We think we can put a few more drives in the motherboard half of the POD without many other changes, and connect them to already existing SATA connectors on the motherboard. To get all the way to 75 drives we will need another row of port multipliers, which then means we need even more SATA cards, etc.

> No 25/40gig networking?

We're currently not able to saturate the 10 Gbit so for us it is wasted money to go faster. Remember that we run these in "vaults of 20" so we have 20 pods EACH with 10 Gbits so the vault hoovers in data at 200 Gbits/sec if you can thread the application.

> How tall are your racks?

Most of our racks are 45U tall where the PDU takes 4U, so we can fit (not necessarily power) 10 pods per rack and still fit a network switch in the 1U left at the top. In the past (with 45 drive pods) we ran 2 circuits of 30A 208V power (three phase). The two circuits are redundant - our power strips can flip over from one to the other if there is a loss of power on the currently used power. But I think they only put 8 or 9 of the 45 drive pods in a cabinet because it slightly exceeds what the datacenter likes. And now that we're moving up to all 60 drive pods, we have to rejigger the whole thing.

It is also worth mentioning that when we bring a 20 pod vault online, we put each of the 20 pods in different racks in different parts of the datacenter. This helps keep the vault completely online if any one component fails. For example, if the power strip feeding the pods in 1 rack power dies, it only takes 1 pod offline out of several different vaults, so ALL the vaults stay online both reading and writing data. (I hope that made sense.)
The key is to culturally shift from a scarcity-rooted value system to an abundance-roots one. Call it "The New American Dream".
After Netflix crackdown on border-hopping, Canadians ready to return to piracy
No, mplayer doesn't support the needed DRM systems afaik.
This has been a common practice in enterprise sales organizations for while.

- Hire new CRO or President of sales.

- He "builds out a team" generally consisting of people he's already worked with in the past.

- Sales org grows.

- CRO moves to next company. wash rinse repeat ad infinitum.

Why would this process breakdown given a team of proven, successful engineers who have shown to be capable of building/scaling a product in the past?
Anybody know if there is a full guide for the migration from toolbox to Mac beta? I've installed the beta, but I'm wondering if there's old cruft that I'll need to uninstall to be completely on the new.
Let Chris Crawford teach you to program Atari's 8-bit computers [video]
Probably, I vouched it and upvoted, given that it actually was relevant. Guess those domains were bad enough to trigger the spam filter.
Why not the same?

Cause sales ain't software.
> The popular narrative that, unchecked by government, a business will eventually rise to absorb everything is not borne out by practice.

There is no such popular narrative-that's merely a strawman you've created-the popular narrative is that monopolies can and do form (not always, but can) in the absence of government rules to prevent them and that such monopolies are bad for capitalism. That is a fact borne out by history.

> Rockefeller is mostly guilty simply of being very rich

No, he's guilty of abusing the power of his near monopoly to sabotage competition just as the OP said. He's not reviled for his wealth, but for the unethical ways in which it was maintained.
As amusing as the idea of large corporations being unable to control their bladders is I think you meant "incompetent", not "incontinent". But that leads to (silly) possibility six: The companies are incontinent. In the rush to go to the bathroom they'll just put whatever numbers they can to get the financial results out the door.
Actually, there are a lot of people complaining about this feature miserably broken in the latest updates.
NOVA: A Log-Structured File System for Hybrid Volatile/Non-Volatile RAM [pdf]
Fastest Cars in the World
It would be interesting to see some scouting models based purely on psychological and personel relationship data. What kind of metrics are best at predicting team chemistry. Sports analytics is going to complete change most sports, we are just getting started.
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Sounds awful. It's a push model on someone else's terms.

Think of it this way -- would you want someone else deciding how often you'd look at their web page?
Yes, there is a lot of luck. For one thing, the gap between very bad players and very good players is fairly small in an absolute sense; for example, a player who gets a hit 25% of the time would have trouble staying in the league, but a player who gets a hit 30% of the time has a good chance of being an all-star. A 5% increase in your success rate separates the very worst players from the very best.

There is a great saying about baseball: Every team is going to win 54 games and every team is going to lose 54 games; it is what you do with the other 54 games that counts. (There are 162 games in a season)
Charge them with burglary. It's already a crime.
As a heavy EDM listener, Soundcloud is an amazing resource. Unfortunately, I see a variety of problems with the platform.

* The company was founded eight years ago but only added subscriptions to the artist side two years ago (I think?) and to the listener side in the last three months. Ads were added to the listener side a year ago, with no option to subscribe to remove them until the last few months. I basically stopped listening to Monstercat given how pervasive the ads were (every two tracks when skipping after a few seconds? Come on...)

* No way to buy music from them directly. Here's a recent release from Pegboard Nerds: https://soundcloud.com/monstercat/sets/pegboard-nerds-heartb... . First five lines on the description: buy on iTunes, Bandcamp, Beatport, watch on Youtube, listen on Spotify. Not being able to sell music and have an online library of purchases seems like a lost opportunity.

* Speaking of libraries, you can like or repost songs. Beware though - if an artist removes a song or makes it private, it'll be gone from your lists. And I mean GONE - there's no record it existed, no track name, no artist, nothing. I only found out because I'm familiar enough with my likes that I noticed songs weren't playing in the right sequence. This is extraordinarily frustrating - at least if I bookmark music on Youtube, the artist and track name are in the bookmark, even if the video gets removed, making it possible to find/purchase elsewhere. Until a day arrives where I don't have to add the title of every track I like to a local text file, there's no way I'd sign up for their listener side subscription.

I've felt like Soundcloud could become a tremendous force in the music scene if they did things right - a one-stop shop for everything; uploading, sharing, listening, purchasing, collecting. Doesn't seem like they're pulling it off though.
Skype is even more fun to watch in Little Snitch with all of its p2p connections. I regularly have 2k+ connections being opened to sync online state.
I second that. It must be an opt-in feature.
A simple SDK makes connectivity without internet possible (Mesh Networks)
I work in embedded C/C++ all day and have a soft limit of 80 characters per line and 60 lines per method. 99% of my code will conform but no big deal if you go over and don't lose visual appeal. 80/line is nice because you can put a .cpp/.h next to each other on a widescreen monitor.
The entire history of economics backs this up. The only instances of long-lasting monopolies are the result of government coercion. The instability of large, profitable businesses has both a solid theoretical foundation and an unending abundance of empirical data.

If you ever think you have found a single instance of monopoly lasting any significant length of time, look deeper - with absolute certainty there is a government gun backing it up.
It's still up 25% over the last five days. These fluctuations aren't news for anyone except the day traders.
I will give that a read. I've never been comfortable with the "physical effect" argument, but I've only ever seen it presented in pop media as a fait accompli, so it's a relief that there's serious consideration of other explanations.
DockerScript™
docker id is gtklocker, thanks!
Would love to try it out, could you add me to the top? My id is ninofloris
From Megaflops to Total Solutions: Cray and Supercomputing History [pdf]
Highly unlikely. We'll probably be able to get twice the usage out of existing roads because the distance between cars will shrink dramatically.

In my cynical opinion SDCs will likely precipitate a ten year pause in new road construction as drive times drop dramatically. But at some point we'll catch up to the additional capacity and spend another five or six years suffering as roads are built and expanded.

But the newly constructed roads will be more efficiently utilized than roads at present, so it will be cheaper per passenger mile.
And dense texts describing how the act of reading that 10K necessarily involves the reader in the narrative of the document.

And some business about talking to a lion, I think.
I had read the Wikipedia page. But, you know, Wikipedia isn't always right.
My Docker ID is clessg. I would be appreciative if you did that. Thanks!
I would be willing to spend up to USD 50, for a chrome plugin (with an optional extra solution that worked on mobile) that automatically summarized articles into Inverted Pyramids. Of course, if you actually had this technology, my money wouldn't be essentially worthless given the much bigger and more lucrative markets you'd have available.
I think (know) many companies actually do this informally all the time. It's fairly common to hire designers in particular this way. Stripe is smart to formally and publically announce a streamlined process. Obviously the whole point here is either everyone or no one gets an offer - honestly if I had to guess the amount of people they actually hire this way will be really small, but making it formal will increase the number of talented people they see total.
Yes, but the point is that guy is going to end up in jail one way or another. People who think the jails will just empty out if we stop prosecuting people for drugs aren't thinking things through.
I'd like in as well. Docker ID is same as my HN username: spectralblu

Thanks!
Did you signup at beta.docker.com?
Specifically - this link is to "/blog?=byot", while the earlier one is to the much prettier URL "/blog/bring-your-own-team"
Stripe changing the game again. Well done team Stripe!
I run a docker-compose file and never, ever have to install node/postgres/redis myself, nor make sure I'm using the right version or have the right configuration files.

I pass the repo, with the Dockerfile and docker-compose.yml over to another developer and they do the same thing. They don't spend hours getting node/postgres/redis/whatever set up then fight environment issues to match what my, or staging, or our production environment are.
Irrelevant since it's a straw-man. It doesn't matter if monopolies self destruct over enough time, the point of regulation is to avoid them to begin with because they're not good for capitalism.
If losses can be socialized (which they indeed can, if you're big enough), it's smart (albeit sociopathic) not to bother mitigating risks. It's much cheaper to PR your way out of disasters than to actually prevent them from happening.
Two additional points. 1) The mixture of player ability is mostly due to cost penalties for paying players a higher salary (although Yankees just pay it). Not as distributed as (american) football, but still distributed. 2) Note the longest winning streak is 26 games out of 162... out of 162. Longest basketball streak is 33 games (not enough for an undefeated 82 game season). The ability to have a 162 game streak that starts on game one and lasts through the baseball season is essentially impossible. It is possible to have an undefeated season in american football where the season is 16 games (but it is rare -- hasn't happened since pre-NFL 1937, 1948). Baseball has an order of magnitude more games per season.

EDIT: I knew that wasn't right (that's what I get for haphazardly scanning Wikipedia for facts). A couple others since recently 2007 Patriots and 1972 Dolphins also had undefeated seasons in NFL. Still rare, and still a fraction of the number of games. Point is: luck is only part of it, no matter the sport staying undefeated is difficult -- especially for a season when season means 162 games! Thanks for pointing out the mistake everyone. Sorry for the confusion!
I'm also in the beta, and I like it a lot. It's functionally equivalent to `dlite`, which Nathan LaFreniere has done an extremely good job on. He deserves massive credit for making OSX Docker dev bearable and for providing the inspiration for "Docker for Mac".

A few issues I've seen:

1. I cannot believe they are using `docker.local`. This hostname will cause nothing but trouble for years to come. DON'T USE `.local`! Apple has decided that `.local` belongs to Bonjour, and due to a longstanding bug with their IPv6 integration, you can expect to see a 5-10s random delay in your applications as Bonjour searches your local network to try to resolve `docker.local`. Yeah, you put it in your `/etc/hosts`? Doesn't matter. Still screws up. Use `docker.dev` or `local.docker`. [http://superuser.com/questions/370559/10-second-delay-for-lo...]

2. -beta8 is screwed up. It won't bind to its local ip anymore. The only option is to port forward from localhost. Unfortunately, Docker isn't offering a download of beta7. Thankfully, I still had the DMG around.
3. The polish is still lacking. Most menu bar items ask you to open up something else.
4. Why "Docker for Mac"? Couldn't the team think of a less confusing name? Now I have "Docker" running "docker".

Otherwise - great projects, and again, much credit to @nlf for `dlite`. If you're not part of the beta, check out dlite (https://github.com/nlf/dlite). It's at least as good as Docker for Mac.
Most of the people in venezuela with bitcoin trade it for dollars. Typically by routing it to the states, though there is a small local network of exchangers that route paper dollars over the border.

However, most of the underserved users are in the states.
How I rented a piece of a river in a never-ending western drought
A great idea, however I doubt in practice it would work as well as everyone thinks.

What may work for a school leaver may not work for a guy with a family of 6/debts/drug or alcohol problems/medical needs/etc. that person may be much better off with housing benefits/family benefits/medicare etc than an equal slice of the pie.

Anyway I dont know but I am in favour of doing the experiment and hope it works, but I seriously doubt it will be as cut and dried as people think.
I'm the CTO at KeepSafe. We open sourced aiohttp.

We wrote aiohttp for our production system. We build everything on aiohttp.
In our production systems we constantly run more request then in the benchmark with business logic on each request.

The main reason we like aiohttp a lot if that you we can write asynchronous code that reads like synchronous and does not have callbacks.
Incredibly impressive!

I solved this. The center required all of my soldiers to be maxed out, and all of them carrying lasers. Iirc... it feels like several lifetimes ago...

I'd give it a go but after moving about 15 times there's no way I have that CD.
Because most of us develop on OSX and production is Linux.
This is cool, but to really make this game changing they'd revamp their interview process to interview all members together (or in pairs of 2-3) some people just perform better with their partner and the interview process itself should account for it (if they're assuming that's true).
Guaranteed demand, parking (there are legal issues where being an individual or first party business owner of vehicles is easier than being a ZipCar). You're leasing cars for ~$500/mo for 36mo each. That gets paid regardless of demand. If your stable gets used enough to bring in >$500/mo in external customer net revenue per car, that would be pretty exceptional. Most likely you'd make $100/car/mo and get a bit of extra professional maintenance for the fleet vs. just owning them and having a dealer service.

What's interesting is if car manufacturers start to develop vehicles specifically for this kind of market. I'd love to have personalization settings (nav, seat, climate, driving controls, etc.) which follow me as a driver across a fleet of identical or related vehicles. You might also have a "valet mode" (some cars do now), "renter mode", and "owner mode", with different performance limits (I can ruin a $1-2k set of tires in 10k miles of spirited driving, but if I ran the right profile on the car, I could make them last 30k miles). Might also make some maintenance/safety things non-overrideable for renters -- you can't start the vehicle if the brakes/tires/fluids/etc. are not good, for insurance and vehicle-damage reasons.
It always feels like there’s an element of marketting to this too. I think it reinforces not just budget, but out-right cheap. Uncompromisingly cheap.

I would not be surprised if you could find americans who have never set foot outside of north america, who could still name ryanair as being the cheap option here. And I wouldn’t be surprised if they couldn’t name a second. (not to assault the stereotype too much, just to single out a demographic who have never had any need to put one second of research into the topic.)

All the headline grabbing “charging for toilets” nonsense is really effective, free marketting.
And their podcast service is so nice, especially integrating with Twitter cards. But, I don't know how long they can last.
Soundcloud was launched in 2007, and raised €2.5M in VC cash in 2009. Soundcloud charged nothing and had no real business model.

Seems like to me they were chasing growth for the beginning. The "tool for artists to host their music with a minimum amount of hassle." was subsidized by VC money.
Not agreeing or disagreeing with you, just reminding people of an important relevant point.

It's pretty well proven that a survey can be crafted to guarantee the desired outcome for whom ever paid for it.
While this is a bug, it's also one of the most unnoticed and unspoken about features.

If I'm looking for a house and access to reliable public transit is important to me, I'm going to want to buy in an area well served and expected to be well served 30 years from now as well.

Track and train stations mean this is likely to be true. At least far more true than a bus route.

In this manner city planners can't pull the social contract rug out from under you as easily.
Depends. I usually set a marker around 90 and mostly stay inside it. Func/method type signatures (especially in Swift/ObjC) I'll let run over without worrying as they can get a bit verbose and I don't need to parse them frequently.

Inside the body I'll usually stay under 75 and will split multi param function calls across lines. If lines start to overflow I'll often factor some piece out to another variable to keep it readable.

Switch cases I'll let run long if I can fit them all in as one liners. Having not worked on a shared code base for a few years I've developed a bunch of non standard habits.
> I would have to disagree with the goal of any business is to be a monopoly.

> There are lots of examples of successful business out there who did not monopoly the market.

Such as? If you cannot eliminate competition within your given market, marginal profit will eventually be driven to zero. The internet amplifies this challenge because it is not geographically constrained (minimal transaction costs) and software amplifies this challenge because of zero marginal cost (creating massive economies of scale).

You can find more on this in the works of Michael Porter (http://amzn.com/0684841487, http://amzn.com/0684841460) and Peter Thiel (http://amzn.com/0804139296). Zero to One discusses how many seemingly successful non-monopolies are actually either monopolies pretending not to be one or non-monopolies that are not as successful as they portray themselves to be.
These comparisons are silly. Now imagine it's a BMW vs someone's project car both with the same $$$ invested.

Yeah, the project car will probably smoke it. But not everyone wants a project car.
I can agree with the first two. But layoffs are more often the result of incompetent management failing to find a profitable use for the existing workers.

Or sometimes they're caused by management playing the "Let's cut costs to increase returns so we earn more from our shares" game.

Big layoffs are a management failure, not a hiring failure. Realistically, how likely is it that a company that's been running profitably for years suddenly discovers that thousands or tens of thousands of staff were a poor hire?
If the source code to this encrypted database were to be released publicly (say by "leakers") what would stop them from accessing and writing to said database (err excuse me, "blockchain")
Yep! Considering Keynote is the best presentation tool-- but it just sits there. I'd kill for the iWork platform to go open source.
I'm a bit confused as to how this works in an employment scenario where the contractual terms aren't fixed.

How is salary negotiated? What happens over time - do you just become discrete employees? What about internal promotion - does it just not happen?

I would find it incredibly difficult to get together with friends and decide 'right, i guess we're all worth X each then, let's go for that'.
The biggest benefit of this change is getting people to reconsider their usage of homebrew. For example, now I'm looking into Nix. These sorts of changes fuel competition and innovation.

I'm reminded of when Adblock Plus went sour, and we got uBlock Origin. There are lots of examples of this.
You'll need to have signed up at https://beta.docker.com/ first.
Would love to be fast-tracked, currently using Docker to work on an open-source project. Username is jochakovsky.
Roundup of community backed x86 hacker SBCs
Show HN: Actuame, LinkedIn for indie movie makers and freelance artists
Hey HN!

Link: http://actuame.com

I'm Mauro, CEO/Founder of Actuame.com, "LinkedIn for indie movie makers and freelance artists".

Our product is simple and straight forward. Artists can create their online resume and attach their portfolio and professional information such as courses, education and more.

And on the other end, we can movie makers who are in the lookout for new & fresh talent to occupy roles in their projects.

At the moment, we allow artists to apply to open casting calls and we let the conversation flow from there.

We're currently with our MVP, providing service to 3K users (without any funding) and growing!

I'd love to know what HN thinks of the idea!

Thanks
Many of the advantages of smoking can be chalked up to breath control. Sometime, try standing up, walking around your desk, and pretending like you're smoking. Inhale just as you would a cigarette, but just plain air. It works remarkably well (for me anyway).
Frugal lifestyles at a modest UBI payout will never know the stick, if the payout is high enough no one will ever know the stick. My point is merely that if the payout allows for a 'basic' income and does as is advertised then there really isn't much of a stick to fear, by some definitions of the 'stick' the 'stick' is eliminated in a scenario where everyone has basic income. Not everyone runs on merely carrots.
Email, IMO, really isn't suitable for that mode of communication. Newsgroups, OTOH, were made for that type of communication.

Email really should just be used for 1-on-1 communication that's not meant to be read by anyone else other than the sender and recipient.
I can't tell if this is clever baiting or not. This was email with friends before MySpace.
No, but everyone has bad days, and the players are all human. A small error can lead to points which can change the outcome of the game.