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I've generally thought Alex is the most pragmatic of the Container Kids. Flo seems to have a pretty decent business, something that is realistically lacking in the go to market at Docker, recently because they seem very emo. However, Alex/CoreOS has good technology that I believe is often overlooked. HashiCorp is to my mind always the dark horse, I still firmly believe containerisation is stop gap and part of the reason I campaigned hard internally at DigitalOcean to not deeply productize a container solution. Fully expect ten thousand down votes for this post. :)
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From day 1 rkt's approach always seemed like the right approach to me intuitively. Their process is for many reasons much more professional. Docker on the other hand consistently overpromises and underwhelms.

I tried to get docker to work for a CI pipeline and it failed miserably. Consistent lock-ups and just generically slow operation when spinning up and deleting 100s of containers per hour forced me to move to lxc which works extremely well for a CI type workload. Not that surprising considering TravisCI and CircleCI behind the scenes are using lxc as well. Volume mounts, networking, sandboxing and just general stability all work without surprises in lxc but to this day I have no idea what the proper patterns are for sharing host level mounts properly inside docker containers.

I really hope rkt becomes the default container substrate. From first principles and fundamentals perspective rkt is the right solution.
> The language spec will say that class construction locals and kwargs are insertion-ordered, but other dicts are ordered according to the whims of the interpreter. What is causing technical debt?

The debt will accrue in the wider ecosystem. The spec doesn't guarantee dicts are ordered, but people will rely on it. Then, when a new dict implementation comes along, all code written based on a (then) correct assumption (but not based on the spec) suddenly stops working.
Spreadsheet programs are great for data entry if we take the care before hand to design the data structures well so that they easily export and can be easily analyzed by a computer. Easy stuff like small org budgets can be done with spreadsheets, but masse data analysis simply requires industrial grade tools.
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Says it right in the article. They made the wrong decision to censor a historically relevant photograph. So they backed down.
A language that makes it easier to write shitty code is worse than one that doesn't
Unfortunately, speciation is mostly a continuous process, so there's no way to define species by some kind of "degree of similarity/dissimilarity" metric and have it be a transitive relationship. Any species definition that is completely transitive will necessarily have edge cases where two extremely similar organisms fall on different sides of an arbitrary threshold and are declared to belong to two different species.

The classic example of non-transitive species relationships from sexually reproducing organisms is a "ring species": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_species
Perhaps Starfighter failed because the cofounders spent too much time commenting on Hacker News?
I thought I remembered reading how the 'new driver releases' appeared so that the manufacturers could ship their own case by case patches/optimizations for various games.

EG: Game X is telling us Y, but in reality algorithm Z produces the same results a lot faster, so use Z.
Another year, another Geary release without even the slightest support for address books.
Vala seems interesting but at this point in time I wish that Vala, much like Gtk, wasn't ever necessary.

Both were created due to licensing concerns (Vala -> C#/Mono, Gtk -> Qt).
Like you do with all 'highly-configurable' tools. You invest time/money into issue tracking expertise, learn hard what you really need, learn the instrument, google what tweaks can move it closer to your needs, and voila, you are ready to write your own 'highly-configurable' tool and win the industry (and clear some expenses).

That's full opposite of a Product.
Is the SpiderOak client open source/auditable?
Sorry. I've used Gnome, Unity, and KDE extensively. There is an incredible amount of work that goes into them sure but they are definitely not polished.

I'm the definition of UnixPorn junkie and customize my linux box to the hilt but even I have to admit when there is a benefit of standardization and the work the elementary people are doing.
"I will neither confirm nor deny any prior illegal activity."
Absolutely, I just meant in the specific cases where it's guaranteed by the updated spec.
Steps in the 'Trying out rkt' [1] document worked like a charm on Fedora 24 (using the binary install method).

I saw v1.14 is tagged as 'f26' in Fedora's package builder so I'm not sure when this will be getting released there. F24 is currently offering rkt v1.0.

Loved the `rkt gc` command. Really excited to try this out with Kubernetes now [2]

1 - https://github.com/coreos/rkt/blob/master/Documentation/tryi...

2 - http://kubernetes.io/docs/getting-started-guides/rkt/
The risk in the case of Mosul is failure of the dam face itself. Not merely the generating equipment.

Hoover faces no threats of similar magnitude.
I had a #! setup for a couple years that I liked. OpenBox is clean.

I see that the project is continued as BunsenLabs Linux. I'll give that a try as I just wiped my laptop last week.

https://www.bunsenlabs.org/

http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=bunsenlabs
Just look at any grocery store checkout aisle or pharmacy, and see dozens of standardized battery sizes, from AA to 9-volt, or literally dozens of sizes of button cell batteries.

If they were standardized, then rather than going to Amazon for the cheapest Chinese knockoff that mentions your phone, you'd go to the local Best Buy or whatever.
For once, C++ got some usability right and created std::map and std::unordered_map which have explicit key ordering behaviour.

Now, back to waiting for my project to compile.....
I highly doubt you need in your daily life to reach 1.6 billion of people. If you need to talk to your relatives and friends, there are thousands of options. Including, you know, talking to them. If you need to find people with similar interests, there are thousands of places where you can do it, unless your interests require talking to a billion people at once - at which point you are probably an advanced AI which is destined to rule us all and need not to bother talking to a puny human like me.

Of course, if your goal is to see cat pictures on the biggest social network there is in existence, then you have no alternative but Facebook. But I question this goal has any value at all. Facebook may have millions of posts every second, but you will never know about it, will never see them and will never interact with their creators in any way.

If your purpose is to spread your ads to as many people as possible, billion-sized site is also providing reach second to none. But I personally have very little interest about the optimal spread of advertisement, and so does about 99.999% of people that do not work in ad business.

In short, I see nothing that makes Facebook more than a) Schelling point that can be easily replaced with another one, and b) so-so platform to waste one's time because why not.
There is a transaction charge of about 20c. Not exactly a big deal if you are spending 10-15euros in one stretch. But if you are buying 2-3euros in beers 20c can eat up all the margin.
>Also it's not like every CIA employee supports torture.

I feel like if you work for an organization that tortures people as a matter of policy, instead of against it, then yes you support torture, at least implicitly.
To play devil's advocate, can someone provide a single historical example of a case where dumping "worked," in the sense that one country's manufacturers were able to rake in large profits after their foreign competitors went out of business due to subsidies?

Because unless dumping actually succeeds at that goal, and I don't see any evidence that it does, it seems indistinguishable to American consumers from a huge technical advance in a foreign country lowering the cost of some import--yes, it may be detrimental to domestic producers, but it's a huge benefit to domestic consumers and a net benefit overall.
I have no confidence that our "monetrocracy" (legalized bribery, money=speech, etc.) will ever do anything ever again to penalize such chintzy corporate nastiness in a substantial manner.

However, all is not lost: one can look at such corporate actions as a financial signal that they are on the path to decline (e.g. IBM). Their next acts will likely comprise of executive bonuses, more layoffs, more employee churn, reduced quality, customer losses, and opportunities for new and interesting companies that are interested in ability instead of financial engineering. Depending on the horizon and personal wealth, this can serve as an opportunity to short such stocks.
Aaaand this is why I don't even want to try visiting US, despite being offered to talk at conferences about my product. I'm using a false name on Facebook and HN, which makes me afraid of any agent asking "Have you ever impersonated someone" or "Have you ever committed a crime against US interest". I just dread the TSA. Plus I carry nudes on my laptop, which despite the male models probably being above 24, I can't prove aren't below 18, and even though I could clear my HDDs, I might as well do business with a freeer country.

The only limitation is, given I'm French and we've just had our "9/11"-type terrorist attacks, I'm afraid we might progressively set up the same extreme police system. If we do so, I'd like to apologize in advance in the name of the people of my country...
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Who's "Flo"? Are you talking about HashiCorp's Nomad? Why is containerization a stop gap? Maybe answering these questions will "contain" the downvotes ;)
When dealing with CBP/ICE don't even acknowledge that you are aware of the existence of something called weed. Seriously, they have no sense of humor.
Sure, I hacked em together in google slides so that's easy: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Vf2vPBlIInV792KOIiiC...
Java as well. Need sorted? TreeMap. High-performance but unordered? HashMap. Preserve insertion order? LinkedHashMap.
A nice "interview" with Bjarne from the yealy revue on the center of computer scince on the university of copenhagen: https://youtu.be/TTVCaZVUvC0?t=156
I bought a Shield tablet that had a battery related recall. Instead of replacing the device they simply shipped me a new one and asked nicely for me to toss the old one.

So...I now have two Shield tablets.
They are not the same but the situations are similar. Both are actually insane at different levels.
They don't, really, as long as they're not disadvantaged compared to the competition. The people who are getting screwed are people who pay cash or use cards without rewards programs.
I don't get it, how is that better than just doing an injection with a pre-filled syringe? I see the point of the Epi Pen, but not of this.
Dropbox isn't hacking anything. They show the legit OS dialog requesting permission, and the user complies blindly.
Which is fine - if you have a deeper understanding of the US laws than most non US citizens. As far as I (from the UK) had read in the news it was legal in a lot of states and so my understanding was it was legal and fine. I didn't realize it was illegal at a federal level.
And then they can just send you on the first flight back home.
No, there is basically zero commonality between this device and the EpiPen (this is a bad idea for a number of other reasons though...)
Maybe it'd get more clicks on HN if we link the Alpha Centauri technology achievement:

http://alphacentauri2.info/wiki/Eudaimonia
If there is no consequence for humans then I would find it perfectly normal. It isn't monstrous nor absurd.
Not only a drag, or not even a drag.

It's been a long while since I read The Innovator's Dilemma, but the ground-breaking thesis in that book as I remember is that established companies are disrupted because it's 100% rational for them to continuing pursuing and maximizing profit in their established market, even while obsolescence is knocking on their door.

The dilemma is that they have to choose between maximizing profits in their current market and returning unused capital to stockholders, or burning money on speculative investments in a bid to remain relevant in the future.

Were labor and capital markets frictionless, it wouldn't even be a dilemma. The answer would be obvious--choose the former. Any investments you divert from maximizing your current advantage is always a net loss. Excess capital is best given back to shareholders because "the market" will do better at choosing the next disruptive technology than any single person or business would be. That you're doomed to obsolescence and will eventually have to wrap up the business doesn't matter; what matters is maximizing profits.

But because labor and capital markets aren't frictionless, it's not optimal to let an existing business entity disappear. Think fixed costs like HR; or brain trusts. Finding the balance between maximizing your current market position and speculating on disruptive technologies is therefore arguably something worth pursuing.

But as labor and capital markets become more free and liquid, there's less of a dilemma.

Anyhow, long story short, companies aren't disrupted because they're dinosaurs and antiquated. They're slow to respond because it's often perfectly rational (i.e. more profitable) for them to ignore new technologies and to continue pressing their advantage until the very end. And that incentive aligns well with maximizing global profits and capital investments. The intuitive sense that companies are doing something wrong by not preparing for disruption is irrational as a general matter. You prepare for disruption by making as much money as you can and jumping ship at the very last moment; doing anything else is leaving money on the table.
A company that can move fast (usually on the back of nimble software deployment), would be my guess. 5-10 years from now, it is a safe bet that car companies will look either like Tesla or Uber (or some mix thereof).
Well, it could. But it would have to dig a hell of a hole....

Denmark is utilising a resource it has in some abundance: wind. Part of a renewables strategy is using what you've got, not what you wish for.
Bureaucracies do not have feelings.
I guess he was talking about usability, not the tech behind it.

Gnome/kde/unity all looks and feels good in one area and bad in another. People disagree about what's right with them on a very fundamental level. Juggling between the user experience and maintain the tech behind is has clearly taken a large toll on these desktop environments.

On the other hand (I guess from an average user's perspective) Elementary feels very cohesive. It feels like the one destro has a much nicer balance between the tech and usability.

But it also has its caveats. If I recall correctly, you can't minimize apps on Elementary, you can only close them...
One man's "lack of supply" is another man's "uptick in demand" skewing the market.

You can't simply conclude it's one xor the other.
FAIR! Florian Leibert is the CEO of Mesosphere, I'm talking about the HashiCorp toolchain generally as an ecosystem, containerization is stop gap because I believe in event driven architecture/applications, and there are/will be new interesting and unique ways to implement that///cloud, however, I'm often wrong. :) :)

I will say, I know all of those folks relatively well and they are all really really really good humans who I believe in and love.
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One thing that I don't understand is why all these people that complain about Facebook don't just switch to an open source, distributed Social Network platform.

It's not like anybody is forcing them to use FB or that there are no alternatives.
There's no need to invoke philosophy here. It's pretty well accepted that an ecosystem with less biodiversity is more fragile, and from that perspective the extinction of a species is a concerning event, particularly if the extinction was accelerated by human actions. If new information indicates that a species or group of species is in much greater danger of going extinct than was previously thought, then it makes sense to prioritize conservation efforts for those species more highly.
Failure rate is unknown. Consequences of failure are nasty, up to and including death.
It's a solid book, but I wish there was something newer. It's 20 years old now!
It's not a fake dialog, it's the system one.
To be fair, it's only a federal crime when actually committed in the U.S. (Unlike some of the laws that are enforced extraterritorially.)
Thanks for your explanation. Then why does America subsidize its sugar/agriculture industries so heavily?
I wonder, do these restrictions also apply to Instant Articles? Because as much as Facebook wants to deny being a media company, if it is providing (and censoring) a platform news organizations publish through it most definitely is one. And it's worth stopping to think about what that means when compared to the open web.
It runs entirely on userspace, and as non-root.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12464883
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> People have a preference but it doesn't affect how much they learn.

But shouldn't learning in your preferred style affect motivation to learn, thereby affecting how much is learned?
Quite literally, network effects. There is no point using an open source, distributed social network if you have no friends on it.

In many ways you don't really have a choice about what social network you use, just whether you use one at all.
The combo of Rice and now this revelation that Dropbox gains user-level access to your files (and network resources) really makes me wonder if Dropbox isn't really a NSA plant.

What better way to gain access to users' files than through a startup's free app that demands your password?
"Papa" sees and makes all the decisions in a German Company.
An interesting twist on free speech on the internet is that almost all speech on the internet is being done on private companies' websites.

No private company is considered required to promote or protect free speech. Each forum is able to say "don't like our policies, then go somewhere else".

This even seems quite reasonable. Why should any particular forum be forced to allow any particular kind of speech? Should Facebook be forced to allow porn as something that is protected by freedom of expression?

On the flip side, as more and more of meaningful speech occurs on these not-really-public forums of Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit, there exists quite a bit of unease on my part for these global companies to insist on narrowing expression on these platforms to that which they deem acceptable by whatever internal process they desire.

Facebook's study that showed they could manipulate people's feelings by altering the feed algorithm indicates this is an awful lot of power handed to a company focused on making profits and staying on the good side of governmental organizations.

YouTube recently started changing their policies that has started to create problems for people using their platforms.

This would likely be okay if there were real public space on the web, but it currently operates more as a series of visits to other people's private property. The release valve is a persons ability to create their own corner of the internet, but even this must leap through various ISP and web host providers terms of service. Additionally, is it really speech if you're just doing the internet equivalent of talking to yourself on an island in the middle of nowhere?

Cases like this photo will only become more apparent as time goes on. I'm not sure how society will negotiate these ideas, but at present, the commercial interests are leading the conversation in their favor.
Running an individual or small consulting company isn't that hard. Scaling a consulting company, on the other hand, is quite difficult.
Not to mention the whole "injecting glass into yourself" thing.

It's no less complicated than simply drawing up the medication from a rubber topped vial. It's still a bunch of things you have to unpack at the time you need it (the syringe, stopcock, and needle will all need to remain in their packaging until they're used). There are a ton of downsides...
tariffs are levied on imports
If all of this is true...then what was the motive? Just to save his own job? Seems like a lot for someone to do just to save a job.
It's a nod to the Material design framework that was used for the project.
Really? Wouldn't you think U.S. has the lowest proportion of "rich without merits" as %age of rich of any nation in the world – and indeed in history of world?
HMRC could easily deem the company as being controlled in the UK[0]. This could potentially cause you problems, but then again the corporate tax rate in the US is considerably higher so would there be any tax owed considering the double-taxation agreement[1]?

[0] http://www.menzies.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/INTERNAT...

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/usa-tax-treaties
I use Syncthing: https://syncthing.net/

Totally distributed, works like magic. Being distributed means you do have to blindly trust a third party, but also that don't have to worry about $ per megabite. For example, one of the machines I have in my Syncthing network is a Raspberry Pi with a 3TB drive getting a backup of my laptop $HOME and important stuff from other machines all the time.
I am curious why petsets were not mentioned? I was planning to move my postgres to petset. Do you do find running master within single pod enough?
> @newhouseb, I don't have Office, so I've turned off the badge. Is Dropbox now going to leave my accessibility permissions the way I set them? Or is it going to reactivate a permission behind my back that it no longer even needs?

Yep, we’re going to fix this so that if you uncheck it, we leave it unchecked.

> This fiasco has probably made it more likely that Apple will further lock down the accessibility APIs, possibly even making them unavailable without an Apple-issued, potentially App Store-only entitlement.

As alluded to elsewhere in this thread, this is already happening in macOS 10.12. We’ll be switching to the same approach that Steam (among others) do to request accessibility.
Well I have no idea how they store their data, but if it was straight T-SQL and assuming a table for tickets, a table for comments, and a table linking the two (typical way to implemente 1-to-M relationships) something like (pseudo SQL)

SELECT * FROM tickets JOIN ticketsToComments on tickets.ID = ticketsToComments.ticket_ID join comments on ticketsToComments.comment_ID = comments.ID JOIN autor on comments.autor_ID = autor.ID where autor_ID = me and tickets.date < 1 week

It's not rocket science
Sounds like he's already been hit where it hurts. If his fortune is ~$3b and the stockpile is ~$6b, then he's losing a ton of money every day to interest and opportunity cost and shipping it back to Vietnam and however much the price has fallen since he bought it all, which could be a large fraction. Given how his partners have the knives out for him, he may not even have that $3b. One can stockpile, but as always, how does one bury the body?
> In this case, we recognize the history and global importance of this image in documenting a particular moment in time.

Translation: if you document any of the numerous real human rights atrocities that are happening today then expect to get banned. If anything, the fact that this photo is already 'historic' and 'iconic' means that it's less important than what's being captured today.
tarsnap is awesome, but it's in no way a replacement for dropbox - their use cases and scenarios where you can use them are entirely different.