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I agree -- I'm personally super excited to try my hand at using LXD[0] on Ubuntu, in particular I want to see just how awesome/well-isolated system images are. If everything I'm reading is right, lxd/lxc system containers are going to make running VMs seem outdated.

Unfortunately it's a little bit annoying because the lxd docs don't make it easy to find what they define as a "system image" -- do you have some links to more more good layouts? I actually found a good talk from DebConf '17[1].

[0]: https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/lxd.html

[1]: https://debconf17.debconf.org/talks/53/
In my quest to get well, I walked away from a corporate job and slept in a tent for nearly six years. Rest assured, I've got the "die on your feet" part down pat.

That in no way gives me a path forward for figuring out how to effectively communicate in a meaty way about health topics with knowledgeable people.

Though, as others have noted: Wonderfully entertaining comment.
> Why is docker better than virtualenv with a requirements.txt file?

It's not, it solves a different issue. If you only have Python as dependency, requirements.txt are fine (well, user needs to install correct version of Python, pip and virtualenv / pipenv, but that's doable). But as soon as your app is actually composed of nginx / apache, python, some background process in Rust, bash scripts for cron jobs,... then you have a problem with app delivery, which Docker solves nicely. Just package eveything in a Dockerfile and distribute the image. Bonus point: you can now test it locally, with the same installation.

I jumped on Docker wagon very early for this exact reason. I don't care about hype, but it does solve these kinds of problems.
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I don't mean to be a tin foil hat, but I have to ask: How do you know? Do you work at Apple, with this exact thing?

From my perspective there shouldn't be a problem for Apple to have the regular updates work as you describe. And also for them to have an alternative method they can use without any user intervention at all. (Which probably very seldom is used.)
I'm also a happy LineageOS user, but it's not like they don't have a track record of this kind of thing either: https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/04/05/dont-freak-lineageo...
Yes, let's! Quite orwllian.
That seems very risky in terms of reduced environmental awareness.
With the conspiracies at the level of ‘pizzagate’. Truly absurd.
Great idea for some types of content but also a bit frustrating as someone who doesn't want to "engage"
Yeah and sailboats it’s and horses too!

anyone have any idea of how frequently horse-drawn carriages crashed in dense urban inner city environments 120 years ago normalized against the incidence of crashes for contemporary cars on the same streets at the same speeds?

Maybe this could form the basis for a kind Turing test for level 1-4 autonomous Vehicles.
>It also appears that a misophonic reaction can occur in the absence of an actual sound

so you'll inconvenience ALL of your colleagues so your unprovable condition can be avoided. i hate open desk plans coz of things like this. hr inevitably comes down on the side opposite to common sense and things get banned with no solution(like having a quick snack when you feel tired is not allowed and you can't afford the time away to visit the cafeteria)
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Great work Brett!! You may refer to yourself as the "awkward dude", I'd say the "authentic dude" ;) A project like this comes across much better when you get to see the real person behind it.
> You should have understood that I meant otherwise. Of course, if we could notice the effect of EM, that could trigger an investigation eventually leading to the discovery.

Can you suggest an environment conducive to life that isn't exposed to EM radiation? Life itself creates EM radiation.

> When I meant sensory capabilities I meant the stuff we can sense, directly or indirectly (By indirectly, I mean by the help of another device, to make it very clear).

I can't prove God doesn't exist either, but that doesn't make it logical to conclude that we will one day be able to harness the power of God for FTL communications, but this is what you're expecting. If there are fundamental forces left to be discovered then they are not having any observable effect on the world, making them unlike all other fundamental forces. This makes them unlikely to ever be discovered.
This probably goes in waves for many people. When you just start, you're tempted to do all the clever little things you see online, and may end up being a bit lost.

Once you've learned a bit more, it becomes second nature to a) make the tweaks you need and b) filter out those you don't.

I, for one, enjoy the ability to adapt my editing/workflow as my needs evolve.
Is there any comparison with other similar storages?
> I would think something that refactors code would handle that pretty easily?

Nope. Something that refactors code could potentially identify that as an ambiguous case reliably, but it's impossible to statically refactor code of that sort in the general case. Without external/runtime behavior verification/specification, that is.
> wrote the analysis software, do dev-ops in the data center etc etc etc.

These things are true for other fields as well (machine learning for example), but they don't result in authorship in other fields.
I installed FFOS on my Nexus 4, and everything I needed from a phone, TOTP/SMS/Calling/Internet just worked.

I even added SSH, nginx, and ran a webserver off it.

I'm hoping for KDE Connect to come through. I want seemless integration from a mobile device to a desktop.

A girl can dream
See also: Tesla extending the range of vehicles in natural disaster areas: https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/10/16283330/tesla-hurricane-...
Avatar from 2009 anyone? Seems like James Cameron keeps getting things right again and again. Events from the Terminator are also right behind the corner from taking place.
True, I remember seeing a site circa 2005 that had a completely crazy flash intro with 3d/360 camera pan thing - running on a regular 2005/6 computer.

I think things are more polished now, because of bandwidth we can afford large images, videos, etc but back in the day there was some truly impressive Flash stuff.
more snooping time
> What exactly is new about this?

My thoughts exactly. I've tried all the things in the article (inluding CBT) and they are ineffective for me. This is acknowledged in the article ("we're all different") but the overall tone is that of a "miracle cure" when it's just patiently and steadily applying well-known ways to improve sleep. This is good, but it's not revolutionary.

The only part of it which resonates for me is that the majority of doctors and other medical professionals are truly, utterly crap when it comes to insomnia. They don't think it's important and they don't care that it's a living hell - "after a couple of nights without sleep, you'll sleep through anything", as one doctor glibly told me. But I've been 100 hours without sleep and that's nowhere near a record compared to other insomniacs.

Anyway, let's not get too distracted by a flashy headline and the overall tone of the article. The very fact that a group of medical professionals is taking sleep seriously is significant in itself. I hope it starts a trend.
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He just didn't like the tune
Yes, I know. I just personally didn't learn to use Chef or Ansible, etc. back then. Now I use Ansible as well as Docker. Like it so far.
>The difference is that we don't lionize the actions of our ancestors

Huh? It's notorious for doing just that. From the bizarro workship of the
founding fathers, to celebrating people like Custer, to the whole Confederacy thing in the South, and so on. All kinds of dark history, from the treatment of Chinese in 19th century, to the mass murders of immigrants and workers fighting for their rights (e.g. at Ludlow) are swept under the rug.

>We acknowledge that the wholesale destruction of first peoples was a horrific act of violence, and the US does not cover up the ugly parts of its history. We talk about it openly.

Only in the sense that people don't go to jail for talking about them. Otherwise, the official histories and accounts all sidestep the ugly parts of history, wash them out in official narratives, and so on, and it takes people like Howard Zinn to make them somewhat known.

Heck, people are still taught the nuclear bombs in Hiroshima and Nagashaki where "necessary" and used to "stop the war".
Traefik is really cool for most usage, I tried to used it in production and here are some of the shortcoming I found (the 2 first issues are on github):

- If you use DNS for a blue-green deployment, traefik does not honor DNS ttls (because it uses the DNS of go and go might do some caching) so when you do the switch you might still end on the "old" environment

- An error on one of the cool feature: serving error page when your backend returns some HTTP code

- Some configuration options are not documented (but easily found using github search)

I still love this software and I will keep looking at it.
Just fell asleep reading the article.
Interesting concept. There are other ways to do this but more for the technical savvy. So I could see where this comes into play in the sense that it is focused on a user friendly experience.

The pricing options seem burdensome to me. The whole per month pricing is a deal breaker to me. The pricing language is confusing as well. What is up with all these stipulations? Videos expiring....is that really necessary? It needs to be simplified.

When I see this service what I think is okay...I get it that interactive video is good and I need it so I want this service. So I want to add one, two, three or more of these interactive videos to my website. The type of pricing I would want to expect is some sort of flat rate one-time payment that is not monthly. You really need to rethink the pricing.I get it that you want the monthly income but you need to bring people in first with some sort of "wow, this is an amazing deal" type of offer. The 30 day trial does not cut it for me personally.

Just me 2 cents.
From all I've read online, especially HN, that won't help.
My Lumia 950 XL just pulled down a security update about 5 hours ago.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4459082/september11...

The GP's comment still stands though, it's a dead platform. Mainstream support ends on December 10, 2019, but lots of little things will die as we get closer to that date. Recently the Podcast app stopped letting me add new podcasts with some vague error about being unable to contact Bing. When Microsoft shut down their music service they killed Cortana's ability to identify music playing in the background. Notifications can be hit or miss depending on the app in question.

I went through the same cycle with webOS. What finally did it in the end for me was the browser crashing on about every 6th website I would visit.
Before humans actually set foot on the moon, we first wrote stories about traveling to the moon. We did this for a couple hundred years or more before making it a reality.

We dream the future into existence. Solution: We need better dreams, because these outcomes aren't inevitable.
Copyright serves an important purpose but has been manipulated into being excessively broad, powerful and long-lived.

It’s an invention from the era where access to a printing press was limited and doesn’t really match today’s world where it is difficult or impossible to participate and avoid making copies, which is the opposite.
That just sounds like the easy excuse honestly.
>* Iraq and Afghanistan, Libya, and Syria are all debated vociferously in this country,*

"Vociferously" as in "some pundits talk about them but nobody really cares about those things, no politician resigned because of them, no mass demonstrations anywhere, and even when people talk it's the usual hypocrisy show (when it's not just about the costs and the toll on our own soldiers), meanwhile things get on as usual..."

>Americans who believe in human rights are somehow not credible when they criticize other governments in addition to their own. That is absolutely nonsense.

Actually sounds very valid.

Makes sense, to get one's house in order before they can talk about others. In fact that's where they should have more impact (and more moral responsibility to get right).

But it's also the case that such "criticizing other governments" is used by their own government as justification for all kinds of interventions.

It's this "criticizing of other governments" that was used to justify the wars and interventions that made Iraq and Libya from stable if autarchic regimes into today's hell on earth, for example.
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Lot of people don't seem to realise that the view points they hold are racist and get angry when called out. Case in point, in India I have seen people generally calling lower cast people unfit or outright stupid for a job by cherry picking examples and generalising it across the entire group. When called out, they often respond with anger similar to the parent. In their viewpoint, they are making a judgement based on "facts".
On 2, perhaps I misunderstood how docker works but don’t you need to deploy a docker image that is binary compatible with the type and version of the host OS? Then don’t you just move the problem? (Two customers with different types of OS require you to recreate the docker images). And what if these customers need to upgrade their version of linux, do they need to contact all their software vendors to reissue new docker images?

I never understood how creating the tight dependancy between the host and the docker image is not a problem.
i'm probably out of the loop, but i read your homepage like 5 times and still don't know what service/products you are selling?
Are you using Chrome?
I can totally see it from that angle. People will do what the must. Only then will they do what they can.
Having skills go stale every 3 years.

It seems impossible to really ever get really good at anything because everything you learn is trashed within a few years. It induces a feeling of constant mediocrity.
Set aside for a moment this specific issue (which all in all did not create particular damages), I wonder what is the actual authorization/implementation procedure in a firm like Google to actually push these "potentially destructive" updates (or tests or whatever you call them).

I mean, I imagine that there is a control room where people receive an order by the president, together with a launch code, then an officer in command retrieves the other half of the launch code from a safe he opens with a key he keeps at all times on a chain around his neck, and then two other officers, each one with at least 5 years of service and the grade of captain enter the code and press simultaneously two buttons on two consoles rather far apart.

But I fear that the procedure is much simpler and - theoretically - at the reach of a disgruntled or "gone mad" employee, hired only a couple months before...
Most of those are not truly Free, or at least not much freer than Android.

- Maemo: open middleware, closed many applications and some drivers

- OpenMoko: closed drivers

- Symbian: was it ever libre?

- Meego: same as Maemo

- Mer: this is actually open AFAIK, but no native devices I know of

- Jolla: Android kernel (closed drivers), closed applications

- Tizen: ?

- Ubuntu Touch: Android kernel

- Firefox OS: Android kernel

- Web OS: ?

Only a couple of the above really matter in this light.
Nope, not to the Moon. It takes less than 2 seconds. You can still do interactive conversation with that delay. Remember, the speed of light is very big!
Could you elaborate on your lifestyle, please? What kind of job do you do on that max 1 day a week? How do you spend the rest of your time? How far do you travel? Do you stay long at one place or you'll constantly on the run? Do you have kids? If no - do you plan to have them? If yes - how do they manage with that lifestyle? Having your knowledge and experience, what would you have done differently? Thanks in advance!
As far as Flutter vs ChromeOS UI, I think it makes sense because of how Flutter works and how much success it's seen being used on android/iOS which reflects how much work they put into it. Flutter literally draws every pixel on the screen, and they put their army of engineers to work on rebuilding native interfaces in android[0]/iOS[1] to replicate their interfaces. The amount of control that flutter gives them is probably can't be matched by any existing widget framework, I don't think anyone's actually done something that crazy yet. Fuchsia is their thing, it makes sense for them to re-use the projects that they find offer the best abstraction for them I don't think this is so much a condemnation of web UIs on phone hardware, they also chose not every other widget/display library in existence.

Also I want to point out that rendering and performance of web UIs could be good on phone hardware, the native implementations just have to want that to be the case. I honestly haven't thought about it deeply, but I also haven't seen a compelling case for why android/iOS's specific markup languages naturally render faster than something that was HTML based -- android/iOS just have subsets of the power HTML offers and that's where the savings is.

[EDIT] - I got what you mean about bringing Android-to-ChromeOS, so removed the section asking for clarification
> Why is docker better than virtualenv with a requirements.txt file?

You can't put postgres, memcached, imagemagick in requirement.txt, can you?
Gave me seasickness. And I'm not even sick on boats.
Sony might if that suit could set unfavorable precedent, no?
Not if you totally ignore the human aspect. We are not machines, and we do not like to follow (what to us seems like) pointless and arbitrary rules. It will just foster resentment.
It's not a question of SSL versus PGP. It's a question of PGP + SSL versus PGP alone.

SSL provides:

- Privacy, i.e. making it harder to learn what packages you are installing, or any data about your system that can be gathered from request headers. (Traffic analysis is still possible, but much more difficult and won't disclose request headers.)

- An extra layer of defense if there are flaws in the system doing PGP verification, as in this instance (or perhaps in the HTTP protocol implementation itself). Of course, the most important thing is to fix that system, and IMO apk should continue to be regarded as insecure as long as it continues to unpack files onto the root FS before doing any verification; there are just too many ways to screw that up. Still, in practice, adding SSL would have made it much more difficult for an attacker to get to a position where they could exploit the vulnerability.

Both of the benefits above are relatively minor. But in a world where SSL is now the expected default for the vast majority of things served over HTTP, the cost of adding SSL to one more thing should be seen as extremely minor, making it easily justified.
Salary Sacrifice means my AU$1500 note 9 cost me approx $700
I'll sell my Note 8 for about $600... I can live with that. a $100 512GB Note 9 :-P

but yeah I wouldn't be buying it without sal sac.
You are prepared to make compromises which we know threaten democracy. Things like secret ballets are not a lofty ideal but a fundamental component of an election. Non secret ballets instantly compromise an election's integrity.

Please study some history on elections before making dangerous suggestions.
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I've been using Docker for lots of things. To be honest, the dependency part has been helpful but still weak: we inevitably end up finding that our containers are built from things that go stale (apt-get sources, pip, broken URLs, stale SSL certs, etc). I guess there is a skill to doing it well so that this doesn't happen, but there you are - it didn't really solve the problem it's now an extra skill we need to have to solve a problem we had already mostly solved.

What has really sold me is more the orchestration side, with docker-compose allowing us to easily launch a whole fleet of independent services. I assume swarm and kubernetes etc., make this even better. It's really this that lets us decompose our software into finer grained independent components which has a number of other benefits. I don't think we could manage it otherwise.
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All divisions, subsidiaries and parent organisations lose all their copyrights for any false claim.
And dont install GApps.
> The only limitation is your imagination.

As far as I can tell this is a modern successor to Zombocom.
Please don't remind me, I have PTSD (and like 3 FFOS devices in my closet) from watching it die twice.

Someone posted these up and comers today that look somewhat polished now (versus when I've looked at them in the past):

- Ubuntu Touch[0] seemed like vaporware years ago but seems to be making progress

- Purism is making the Librem phone[1] and it's running F/OSS linux (debian?) underneath, and for some reason they're building their own thing, but it might be awesome as well.

I just want someone to hurry up and add some competition to the landscape already.

[0]: https://ubuntu-touch.io/

[1]: https://puri.sm/news/
I know it's common for commercial properties (bars, restaurants) to use it in Japan to show when they stay open past midnight. I remember being intrigued the first time I saw opening times described like that, and never seen it elsewhere in the world (including the UK).
> if you didn't have the import from Base, what can you not do?

So the part that gets loaded when you load the language/compiler is what is referred to as Base. So, it's kind of impossible to not have it and it is part of the language. So it's somewhat like asking, what can you do without "importing" integers? (ok, that's a hyperbole, but you get the idea ;) )
But, the source code does get shipped, so you might actually go in there and change stuff if you want, and Julia will pick up those changes - even, to get back to that hyperbole, how integers are defined, since they're implemented in pure Julia.
I'm not a 100% sure what you're aiming at, but does that answer your question? ;)
Hanna,

Wow, someone get your partner a beer, really. This is exactly what I need. I was skeptical at first. There was quiz which I will be sharing with all my friends, then this in-depth exercise. That was very interesting. That entire process has me thinking about things in an entirely different format now. I love this thanks for sharing

David
Yes. I don't know their motivation the same way a man is presumed innocent in a court.

But people are not courts. So I do not need, not is it practical, to act like one.

However, I do know the justifications their proponents present for it. And I do know that they're frivolous. They just claim it will somehow make the world better.

They set up a conjecture - that abstract people abstractly suffer when they read those words - and proceed to impose a real action based on the conjecture: we have to delete the words.

Notice how no actual person is presented has having suffered from reading these words in Python code, let alone questioned (like a witness in a court, btw). So no actual suffering is presented.

Yet, the actions, the imposition, is concrete. It is actual. Some very actual people will have something imposed on them directly and indirectly because of this frivolous conjecture.

And the conjecture is frivolous precisely because it is an extraordinary claim - that people suffer when they read 'slave' in the context of Python code - that is presented without a single shred of anecdotal evidence, let alone proof or demonstration.