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Smartos is neat. I run smartos at home.

Let me tell you, you are not doing smartos any favors.

People don't give a shit about how great you think smartos is. "smartos can do this", "smartos can do that". blah blah blah.

Do you know what the difference is between the posted link and your comments? The stuff in the article actually works, while your "look how simple it is" comment, does not:

[root@srv2 ~]# uname -a
SunOS srv2 5.11 joyent_20160504T205801Z i86pc i386 i86pc
[root@srv2 ~]# imgadm install image-uuid
imgadm install: error (Usage): unexpected args (1): "image-uuid"
[root@srv2 ~]# vmadm create -f vm.json
File: vm.json does not exist.

Compared to the process outlined in the article that works, and shows you how to setup the entire process to, build, rebuild, and run two separate containers.

Their first command is basically

$ docker run -it --rm ubuntu
root@37ffd019060f:/#

Which anyone with docker installed can run. Your first command returns an error message.

And then you go on to say

> With SmartOS, the database image can be preconfigured and published into the catalog

> one XML file and svcadm import later, the thing is ready to be turned into an image, never to have to be revisited again

> a single invocation of vmadm -f vm_definition.json

So all you have to do is preconfigure things (how?), publish them into the catalog (whatever that is) and write both an xml and a json file (contents unknown) to start your service.

If you actually cared about getting people interested in smartos, you would write a "learn-smartos-by-building-a-microservice" article and show how to actually use the fucking thing instead of ranting how terrible docker is.
That's awesome. Thanks for the link. I particularly like two things here. One was how the founder bootstrapped the business by straight-up asking old clients in his network to pay him enough to get started. You don't here about that much in HN writing on startups but it's extremely common in consulting with untapped potential outside of it. The other was this quote:

"It's difficult for inexperienced merchants to recognize value. We'd spend countless hours trying to explain 'pain' and our cure but some just didn't care because they handn't felt it yet. With our limited resources, we had to figure out a way to only work with those who valued the medicine we were offering."

That's brilliant. It's brilliant because it might be the trick to getting more uptake in my niche, high-assurance systems. They cost more with some sacrifices to use. Most won't buy them since they don't see the benefit. Yet, such methods are utilized in railways, airplanes, some industrial controls, and some defense organizations. They've felt the pain of failure on their bottom line. So, there's always a niche that prefers paying a bit more to eliminate lots of risk and uncertainty out of their operations. Plus headaches. Money you spent upfront isn't pleasing to look at but you can almost forget about it vs stress of occasional fire-fighting in random places.
My initial thought about this is to reformulate the question as: "Can humans become conscious?". I don't think most people would claim that sperm and egg cells are concious. I also don't expect many people to argue that all humans come from joining these two, non-concious elements. Most (but maybe not all!) would probably agree that that embryo, consisting of a handful of cells, is not concious.

Yet, we interact with people all the time, and at least some of those we consider to be concious. So, by definition the answer to the question is yes. But I think that exploring why that is so, can also shed some light on what we mean by "being concious", how one might demonstrate that something is (or isn't) concious -- and how much of being concious relates to being able to relate to other that we consider to be concious as well.

If we could (and was willing) to raise a child without any human contact, what would such a thing become? Would it really become something we would call human? Concious?

I think that going down this line of questioning, we'll find some ideas about emergent systems, part-whole relations and in general a lot of complexity.

I think it also hard to claim that if we can merge a sperm and egg cell, and create a new concious system, that we couldn't be able to create some artificial (meaning, constructed by us, not "found" in nature) system that develops into being concious.

INMHO, the controversy isn't if an artificial construct can become concious, but what conciousness is, and how we know it's there.
Social Media are like TV Shows, and Facebook is like the HBO of Social Media.

One day something else will come up and capture "young people's" attention and Snapchat will have a slow, painful MySpace-esque death.

This is the price you pay when you don't have anything real to offer to the world, and instead trade on shear popularity alone.
I was actaully thinking WhatsApp would outspace Snapchat since Facebook has been investing in them. Interesting to see that Snapchat gained that much more users
Agreed. A 10% false positive rate is huge. Expand the dataset to millions and I doubt you can identify individuals quite so certainly.
>taking curves too fast, braking too hard too often

I was thinking about this the other day, people driving in San Francisco or Seattle hills would then have higher rates than people driving on flat Texas roads? People stuck in rush hours (where no matter how smoothly you try to drive, there will be more hard brakes) would have higher rates than people who can avoid it?
regardless of the number of car accidents in the area?
We were USA's go-to-whore perhaps still are
I am pretty optimistic, that golden era of Pakistan is around the corner, and we could once again become the regional super power that we once used to be in the 60s. Chinese and Korean looked up to us for inspiration during industrialization era.
We were awesome guys. Until we met Americans in the 80s, we thought they loved us, but they were merely looking for a one-night-stand. They drugged us and gave us money and we became their go-to-whore.

We would do anything for them for money and F-16s. Bin Laden arrived alive in CIA helicopter during 80s in Pakistan and went back in US Navy Seals helicopter dead. enough said.

Also we were little unfortunate to have a neighbor like Afghanistan, believe me it's not India they are our competitor and don't disguise themselves as such.

Afghanistan on the other hand, disguised itself as brother muslim country, and leached into our economy. Glad last week Baluchistan CM said, we are kicking out these fucking Afghan immigrants from our country. We did everything for them, we could given our limited resources, yet they will abuse our homeland. Before they were so-called religious muslims they would rape teen guys for sport. And it's still common-place in Afghanistan.

That said, things are now almost absolute under control after a decade long of fiasco and atrocity. And we should give credit to both our Govt and Army for being on the same page, during this critical period. As normally they are not.

Pakistan's Rating for 2015-16

TE positive

Fitch stable

Moody's stable

S&P positive
I agree with you and we have a similar process at Docker. Part of what went wrong in this particular case is precisely that our infrastructure incident response process did not kick in. I am guessing that one conclusion of the post-mortem will be "make sure to handle open-source package distribution infrastructure like the rest of our infrastructure, including incident response checklist".
> Switzerland's extremely strong financial privacy laws

We are also subject to relatively draconian surveillance [1].

[1] https://www.bestvpn.com/blog/30241/switzerland-passes-severe...
Why would you need to copy the entire running state of the distributed system?
I believe this is true to a degree. But I believe what differentiates this comparison of the shift from Myspace to Facebook, is that Snapchat embraces the concept of ephemeral sharing. Ephemeral sharing I believe will be a huge part of the future of social media as the younger generation becomes more aware of the effects of the permanence of the internet.
Yes, except that gmake implementation is brilliant as it uses the pipe itself as a semaphore, while my version had an explicit process keeping a count and listening to V and P messages.

Unfortunately I didn't know how make -j was implemented at that time.
> natural gas communication is still done by AIM a lot

Lots of U.S. securities trading happens over AOL Instant Messenger (AIM). When I traded equity derivatives, I'd have three communication tools open: internal IM, Bloomberg chat and AIM.
If they're talking about traders "in Geneva", they're talking about physical traders. Can't speak for oil which we didn't trade but for ags and metals, you would take delivery since it's your business (getting stuff from A to B).

Speculation on price is not done by taking paper positions in one direction, but by limiting or increasing your paper hedge, aka trading the "basis" or margin between your physical and your paper.

The physical side requires a fair amount of "RTFC" ("caring what the harbormaster is saying") and being aware of operations.

As an example we were given in training, one of our grains trader went to inspect a ship before loading it with grain, and the local guy thought something was dodgy so he closed the doors, and shone his torch at the walls. Thousands of "stars" blinked back at them. Turns out the ship had been used recently to carry broken glass, which obviously made it highly unsuitable for grains.

But the more common stuff is e.g. overloading the ship on one side so that it leans on the side you know the controller will measure the load, or playing with the percentage admixture (basically dead beasts and dirt) to net yourself a bit more margin.
That perl code that Time:HiRes to measure the time it takes to start perl via system(), which includes the time it takes to fork a shell and parse the command and then fork to spawn perl. `time perl -e '1;'` is more representative of the raw perl startup time, which on my machine is reliably 0.002 real seconds, ⅔ of your times (that is, there's a lot of overhead in your measurement).

A minimal C program (just return success from main after including stdlib and stdio)

You do realize that a "including stdlib and stdio" means nothing for a C program, right? These are, literally, just the API definitions, in the Oracle-vs-Google Android sense. The default gcc options probably produced a dynamic executable; if you compile it statically, you might be able to shave a few more microseconds in startup time.
If you're going to modify the code anyway, to include the header and set the buffer size, why not just use fgets, which takes a buffer size?

Current versions of glibc actually mark gets as deprecated (so you'll get a warning if you use it), and don't provide it at all if building for C11 or newer.
Or even more to the point: it punishes those who are geniuses at the subject matter, but not so great at probability. Especially under stress, where the system could be seen as akin to gambling.
>However, children who are not alone still learn to talk despite no one teaching them.

This is where we disagree. The distinction is that you probably see training/teaching as intentional - but it's not always. You can (and do) learn just by watching and listening without it being an explicit procedural training.

Simply being around others = being taught.
I feel the same about the volunteer military. It also lowers the bar for entry. The most important thing a state does in engage in war. Everyone from all levels of society should pay that price.
Not sure, but a 13" MacBook Pro w/ integrated graphics certainly does. I've only done two cinema displays with a 13" MacBook Air so sadly can't comment on it, will try that tonight if I get a second, but the specs of this put it more in the MBP category anyway.
Looks good! How does the grid handle columns with different heights?
I once had to use a C API where you had to guess the size of of the buffer of data you were going to get back, and keep guessing until your number was compatible with the amount of data. So I did what any good CS person would do, and started with a small, reasonable number, then doubled it until the API was happy. Was this documented? No. Everything but how you were supposed to specify the buffer size was documented. However, this code worked in production, and AFAIK, it's still running in production to this day.
Nice. I do need to add parallel to the my set of bash tricks.

So, is it just me that keep refining bash 'one liners' well past the point they should be implemented on a real language?
You think Yahoo would release Yahoo Oil Messenger (tm)?
> Consciousness is the state of being awake, hence able to react normally to sensory stimulation.

And how'd you go about verifying that? I know that I'm conscious, but you could be a p-zombie. That means if I poke you with a toothpick, you will scream in agony (responding to stimulus), but that doesn't give me any information about whether or not you are conscious.
Because it's not that single ~1MB file that's a problem, it's the cumulative effect. There are people on dialup and GPRS and even people who pay by the megabyte.
Have you actually pursued this process for payments funded by balance or bank transfer beyond a week or so after the charge?

I have.

It's fine if the recipient's account is still active and they successfully get the money back from their deposits or linked account. But in deliberate fraud cases, their only reclourse would be to to refund you out of their own pocket. Paypal has no incentive to do so. Once the money is beyond their reach (e.g. withdrawn via debit card or transferred to an outside account which is then closed), they will not help, in my experience.

Even if you fund via a credit card, if the payment recipient is beyond their reach, they make you jump through numerous fake loopholes (in one case I had, they claimed they had proof of delivery... and gave tracking data for an item shipped from the wrong state and shipped to a location 2000+ miles from me and to another name). I then contested the charge via my card issuer; the phone rep said that this happens often.

I say this as a user from the year they started business (back when they paid a $5 bounty to sign up) and with over 50,000 Paypal transactions.
Not a surprise. I've noticed they've been making the move to Facebook Messenger (which I fathom due to its constant bugginess ) and FB is constantly pushing people in that direction
What's the salary of the oil trader?
Also, USB 3.1 and Thunderbolt 3 are merging together in a similarish fashion as how MiniDP/TB2 did, so within a few years time for adoption the point will be rather mute hopefully.
> thanks for the answers; makes sense!

How is it easier to break Teamviewer's 2FA implementation than PayPals?
Same here. Albeit this was only a few years ago when I was 15 or so. I ran across DistroWatch and used it religiously to try out new distros on my newly built computer.
Apologies for the clarifying question, you'd be amazed how many think everything in Messages is iMessage.
I'm sure the NSA employees and contractors are just happy to see non-threatening post about the agency.

The downvotes probably came from people tired of the joke. It is an oft-repeated joke.
Universe Expanding Faster Than We Thought
Because it's useful? Tons of people have ssh set up to their servers. Many of those servers might contain api keys for various services. Same thing.
> If this keeps up I'll just put some form of Linux on the thing and be done with it, all she uses it for is some light web browsing and mail-related stuff anyway.

Why wait?
That's a reasonable question, these terms aren't very clear.

Philosophers who work on these issues tend to separate out individual aspects of conscious experience and discuss them under distinct terms, for clarity and precision.

The main article isn't really following these conventions (most people don't even know about them), but for philosophy:

Consciousness is generally the state of having subjective experiences. Like, you're conscious when you have some personal experience of things.

Sapience is the capacity to act with reflective judgment. This definition is a mess, just bear with me for now.

Self-awareness is, well, awareness of one's self. Introspection.

There are probably others I can't recall right now. All of these are slightly different aspects of a phenomena we experience as humans, and we tend to lump them all together when talking about it, especially when asking if nonhumans can exhibit any of these properties.

I think what we mean when talking about "conscious AI" is probably something more like "sapient AI" (possibly just "self-aware AI?").

A few millenia of discussion about the meaning of sapience summarized here:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/wisdom/
reddit has a sub for this community at reddit.com/r/fui
Do you agree with Searle's classification of speech acts into five different types? Or would you use a different way to classify them?
> That said, having ops excluded from the architecture decisions that go into building containers is absolutely antithetical to "doing devops".

My point precisely. Just because there is clean separation of concerns doesn't mean anyone needs to be excluded.

The methodology I've seen work best is one where people are not divided by skillset (dev/ops) but instead by area of responsibility (app/infrastructure). Then you embed people from different functional areas into app teams: devs of course, but also security engineer, operations specialist, and various domain experts. From the point of view of IT, you're influencing the development of the app before development to make sure it follows best practices.

A second important point is that, just because you're running a container built by someone else doesn't mean you can't enforce good operations practices. For example, you can mandate that all the containers on your production swarm expose health information at a specific url prefix and pass CVE scanning - or they will not be deployed.
I redesigned my Telco App
https://www.business.att.com/enterprise/Portfolio/cloud/

They're a massive company. When you already own telecom networks and run your own datacenters, selling cloud infrastructure services isn't too far fetched.
> hundreds of support requests

From your comment higher up:

> I know very few people who HAVEN'T been reached by a malicious party which uses TeamViewer as a communication medium.

Do you work in tech support, in some environment prone to these kinds of attacks (e.g., a company the attackers might target)? Otherwise, it's hard to believe we live in the same world - I've heard of these kinds of attacks but I don't think I know anyone who has experienced one.
Current app https://itunes.apple.com/sg/app/my-m1/id380634275?mt=8
No, it's a direct criticism of lazy or sloppy writing style in which authors fail to communicate effectively.

The term has specific meaning within a specific field (not clearly identified), and has been growing rapidly (which is to say: hasn't reached a stable level of penetration) within printed material over the past decade or so.
I've heard that the Doppler effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppler_effect is responsible for AWS status page to show up green perennially.

On a serious note, why would AWS admit that it's services were not quite working well and subject itself to potential liabilities.

AWS reacts shamelessly even when your EC2 instance goes down on it's own. For a sample of how they react, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11822298
USDJPY: Risk Continues to Point Lower on Weakness
Neither of those are the dictionary though, the definition on Merriam Webster says it's

>behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something.

Oxford and dictionary.com have similar definitions

Both of your definitions seem to me like cherry picked overly broad legal definitions especially since they are both from legal sites and not dictionaries and one is on a page titled "Youth Violence"
Tons of people in the reddit thread claimed they never used their Teamviewer password for anything else. If Teamviewer's password database was compromised, that could be one example of a way to explain this.
there's no pass by reference in C!
https://syntaxdb.com/ref/c/pass-by-ref

I'd recommend const pointers, maybe function pointers, arrays of function pointers.

For JS, I'd recommend instanceof.
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> But there's also centuries of entrenched societal structure that is only slowly dissolving. And much of that structure was built up with bogus explanations of what women were biologically capable of.

I don't think the centuries old explanations are as bogus as you imply. The differences between men and women that we can all agree on such as avg. strength, breast feeding composed a lot more constraint on the divisions of labor. Regardless of what you think about breastfeeding or formula today you can't argue that it more or less forced women to do the early child rearing in centuries past. And men's increased brute strength was far more important for much of the labor before the industrial revolution.
and Google Cloud Storage as well!
How do I know that you can't access the host or client computers?
WordAI?
Yeah, sorry, that was confusing. I don't really agree with the comments saying that the comment was referring to TV's 2FA. I agree with fapjacks/ryanlol's comments.

I (think I) now understand why "and my PayPal has 2FA enabled" points to TV being compromised -- If the PayPal account has 2FA active, and they were still "hacked", then it points to an existing session being hijacked. And a probable cause of that would be a compromised TV session.

So it's not necessarily an indication that TV's 2FA was compromised, but rather that TV was compromised in general, allowing the hacker to hijack TV sessions. (I'm imagining that the TV 2FA happens on their central server, and not on the actual server daemon running on the target remote machine... so if the central server was compromised...)

edit: Obviously this is entirely speculative, I don't know any of what's going down, but it resolves my initial curiosity.
Ah okay, I got the impression you were getting a full-time livable income from doing this, which seemed like it would be really hard to do even for someone who was really good at it.
xenadu02: you couldn't have said it better.

I must admit, I didn't add much weight to the opinions of the vast majority on Reddit. It's less of an IT-savvy hub today than it has been in the past and I /wanted/ to believe that the issue was simple reused passwords.

But from the claims made here in Hacker News (who's opinion carries much more weight than the Reddit noise). In addition to the handful of claims where logs have been presnted and users have confirmed use of MFA and complex passwords. I've sincere doubts about the credibility of TeamViewers very, very quick security audit.

Edit: double copy pasta.