skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Mirage link is confusing matters. Mirage appears to be an exo/micro kernel for running in a para-virtualized system.

That's very different from an exo-kernel running on bare hardware. With Mirage, what the apps run on seems to be "para-virtualized bare metal", so rather than using the POSIX syscall interface as its ABI, it's using the paravirtualized "hardware" as its ABI.

That makes Mirage very similar to Zerg - it's the same concept, only OCaml vs. Erlang.

As for LXC, I agree LXC offers a lot of this, especially since you don't need to boot full Linux environments - you can spawn individual applications and fine-tune what isolation you need. Or you can even build applications that explicitly use cgroups themselves to isolate sub-processes. So their "spawn one Xen Dom-U per request" demo could similarly have been a "spawn one new process isolated in its own cgroups".

But these systems are appealing to me in that they bring VM level isolation with startup performance and resource utilization more in line with container systems.

That's particularly appealing if we start seeing cloud systems that can handle it. Imagine being able to create new EC2 instances at sub-second times...
What are you waiting for? Talk to your friends, talk to your co-workers, talk to your congressional representatives.

Or are you afraid that they'll rat you out to the police for being a 'dissident?' If you are then they've already won.
I find it disappointing that the article doesn't state when the PDP-11 was first produced.

A frame of reference would be nice.
"Isn't the whole point of all this outrage that NSA have equipment or data exchange arrangements with GMail etc. so that SSL is irrelevant"
Yes which is why the NSA needs the cooperation of the companies, since this info can't be gotten just by listening on the wire.
My guess is that it started with the simple idea of "we want to move to digital so we can phase out retail and get more out of each sale like steam does" (pressure from shareholders and increases in development costs).

Then they probably went through every worst case scenario possible, like a group of friends sharing a single licence of skyrim and just leaving their consoles offline, and made rules around them.

It probably didn't really click with them and they thought this was a great idea up until the point they got absolutely grilled at E3.

The thing is with steam, they don't really care about people sharing steam accounts and being offline, it's only a violation of the TOS but they have no checks for it since it's not a rampant problem. I think if they sold games for a decent price and trusted their customers they wouldn't need any invasive DRM schemes.
Twitter Tries Harder to Explain Itself
I guess the massive cheering at the E3 press conference when Sony announced their policy on this scared them pretty good. For me, it was one of the saddest gaming related moments I witnessed. This should be expected, not applauded.
C is to sytems computing what democracy is to governance.
What we need is a "5 reasons not to write more articles talking about why not to use Twitter Bootstrap". This meme is about as tired as "In soviet russia..." jokes and "In Korea only old people..." stuff.
IOS 7 to Help Apple Inc. Conquer China
That's a correlation.
This highlights a good dilemma.

It sounds like people who want to keep more of their company, do it at a cost that will reduce their expansion but keep the founders rich.

With outside investment, a lot more people want and push for the companies growth so more people get rich (but the wealth is spread out more)
That too has been in the works for many, many years. The public is distractable, but as I've repeatedly pointed out, only a small section of the public cares all that much about this issue to begin with. It's not logical to posit that everything else in DC is taking place in relation to the NSA scandal, any more than it was logical to assume that everything in DC revolved around the Benghazi thing last year. Now, a major new administration initiative that appeared out of the blue in the last 2-3 weeks would probably be a distraction, but it's unrealistic to expect every part of government to stop what its doing until everyone has argued out the NSA issue.
I wonder if this could lead to an open invitation for people to hack into accounts based on services that use your email address as a primary key for your identity.

e.g. Joe Public hasn't logged into joe.public@yahoo.com for a year because he has taken a year off to live in a Buddhist monastery. So Eve goes in and signs up for that address, without any malicious intent.

Fast forward to a week later, when Eve signs up for CatNip, a website for sharing cat pictures. It says "You are already signed up for this service. Click here to send a password reset link to your email!" Eve can't resist the allure, and clicks through.

One click later, Eve has access to all of Joe Public's cat pictures on CatNip. (Even though she didn't really sign up for the address with the express intention of getting them.)
That's a very insightful way of looking at it. If Nature wanted to get out of this unfortunate position, it would have to counteract this with stricter requirements on the articles that it publishes. It could require that papers be replicated before publication; it could require the release of any relevant code and data; it could be really diligent about publishing failure-to-reproduce papers. This would be a hassle, but would probably make Nature more prestigious, so I'm sure they could get a lot of researchers to go along with whatever requirements they want.
No, it supports the article's conclusion. iPhones have far more tweets, yet are concentrated in high-income areas. Androids, with far less tweets, are nevertheless more widely and evenly spread in all areas - and dominant outside of wealthy areas.

The point of the map isn't to show income disparity, it's to show the smartphone brand of tweeters. The fact that it incidentally does show income disparity is what's interesting.
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There are "official" nginx packages for Ubuntu and other major Linux distributions which are always up-to-date and use a standard conf.d directory for including configuration files http://nginx.org/en/linux_packages.html
How is Balanced inferior, exactly? I would call neither party inferior, but as far as I can see Balanced has the better product. Two things Balanced has that Stripe does not: ACH debit and credit, and programmatic merchant underwriting. Massive features IMO.
brackishlake, your comment is dead and you are probably hellbanned (no one can see your posts outside of a few who turn them on).

You have some really good comments here, so maybe re-register and post them again. You were likely banned for submitting/spamming your chriswinn.com posts.
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That's just a code word used by drone operators...

Hey Central - we have another "Alzheimer's patient" who has driven out of his low-class zone to a more affluent one... send a squad car over to help "remind him" of his place.
Where was it pointed out that these purple dots are likely Windows Phones?

Maybe the shades of purple are too close for me to tell. Or maybe nobody uses Blackberrys anymore?
Third party plugins is not even close. Shopping carts overwhelmingly support Stripe and not Balanced.

EDIT: Not sure who downvoted you; it was a fair question. I countered it with an upvote.
The article discusses the challenge of supplanting entrenched software such as Hadoop. I am actually a bit more optimistic about the ability to swap out Hadoop with technologies like Spark.

At Twitter we don't program using Hadoop directly; we mostly use either Scalding or Pig, languages that compile down to Hadoop code.
https://dev.twitter.com/blog/scalding
http://www.slideshare.net/kevinweil/hadoop-pig-and-twitter-n...

I believe this is how many other companies use Hadoop as well.

The benefit here is that it's possible to write new backends for Pig and Scalding that compile down to Spark or anything else. And then you have backwards compatibility with all your old big-data code.
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hmm, I wasn't aware you could sell your physical disks on the xbox store... that just seems like a recipe for disaster. It seems like such a corner case, though, that I think they could get away with only allowing downloaded games to be resold online. Physical disks would have to be resold through Gamestop or similar, which would actually act as an incentive to purchase the digital version!
Yes, exactly. It's a pretty straightforward statement -- if you know what the words mean, and why it's significant. If you don't have that background knowledge, it's completely opaque.
New York State Joins GitHub to Get Feedback on Open Data Policy
The author didn't presuppose anything; you're projecting. The author showed you maps of the tweets of iphone users and they were concentrated in relatively wealthy areas.
When are we sending this guy to jail?
Is there any reason we can't be living in both? They both lump everybody on the planet into one of two categories - rule through fear or rule through pleasure. Both are distractions that are equally effective, for different people. Some of us are living 1984 AND Brave New World, some just one or the other and some are living something else entirely.
How likely is it that these companies can be compelled to turn over their SSL private keys via FISA court?
It doesn't matter if people are happily "handing over their data" - the government still needs a warrant to request the information. In United States v. Warshak it was ruled that a person has a reasonable expectation of privacy in his/her emails and that the government violated Warshak's Fourth Amendment rights by compelling his internet service provider to turn over his emails without first obtaining a warrant.
For what it's worth, there is still a free shuttle "bus" that runs in a loop encompassing Pioneer Square, Downtown and Belltown. It is designed to provide transportation from homeless shelters to drug rehabs, needle exchanges, etc.
Refereeing is already a huge time sink. I don't believe doubling the referee burden is a possibility without a major incentive changes.
This will never happen without some incentive for scientist to review papers.
Having spent some time near an army base where they train drone pilots, I assure you that you can tell when a drone is above you too. They're not silent or invisible. Your comments border on delusional, like arguing that the existence of telescopic sights on rifles means that all telescopes are weapons.
How to remotely control RF devices with the Raspberry Pi.
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Again, this is nothing new, this move just extends it to more companies.

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/91805
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The sharing architecture is the same as mongodb: data is partitioned based according to a shard key and the secondary indexes are built separately on each shard. So queries that use indexes other than the shard key must be broadcast.

For 1.0 we wanted to match mongodb feature-wise as broadly as possible.

However, fractal trees can handle multiple clustered indexes very well, and this extends to a few ideas I have for adding things to do sharding in what I think will be a much better way. It's a bit up in the air right now but I can tell you we plan to make some significant innovations here, and if you have experience you can share, you should email us and we can talk it over and maybe change what we end up doing.
Also note that $100 per month is pretty low-ball figure.
Microsoft launches $100,000 bug bounty program
But outside of the "rich" areas, although iPhone tweets are rendered on top of Android tweets, Android dominates. To me this indicates that iPhones are concentrated in the "rich" areas as opposed to Androids, which are more evenly distributed. What am I missing?
That comment instills so little confidence in the US navy, kids with guns and all that.
I'm puzzled. How is taking customer privacy seriously compatible with leaving private information indexable, let alone accessible through unrestricted urls?
You can walk the length of the Seattle free ride zone (Jackson to Bell) in less than 30 minutes (1.3 miles). 15 minutes from the waterfront to the convention center.

That McDonalds though --how did you survive?
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Really? Probably never.
Nintendo Wii U Web Framework draws in 1000+ developers
WTF?

These are the drones they're talking about:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Atomics_MQ-1_Predator

Not these:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadcopter
> If the NSA is tapping fiber at providers, a la Room 641A, then the companies behavior is completely irrelevant to the spying, and the NSA watches all traffic in and out of their networks anyway.

Then why would the companies need blanket immunity?
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I'm a fan of Lowtax's response to Ubisoft's cease and desist: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=268...
Google Reader's end hatches better service
When I start up Firefox on Ubuntu running Gnome 3.6 classic or whatever they call it, I got the traditional firefox and definitely no tabs in the title bar, a bunch of vertical space used for the menus, address field and search field and the list goes on. I was able to customize the bars in order to move everything onto one line but couldn't make it the same line as the menu, and could only find bugzilla entries about not being able to move tabs to the title bar on Linux.
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You should read the whole article again. The author didn't just present the data; she suggested that mobile phones are linked to socio-economic status.

For example: "Among other things, cell phone brands say something about socio-economics – it takes a lot of money to buy a new iPhone 5 (and even more money to keep up with the latest models that come out faster than plan upgrades do)."

While it's true that iPhones cost more, they do not necessarily say something about socioeconomic status. Wealthy consumers may be frugal and purchase less expensive phones; less wealthy consumers stretch their budgets to buy iPhones.
Except that companies would want to negotiate, lets say, a contract to include a gray area clause that serves as an incentive for the companies to keep doing this.

Once this thing becomes legal, companies have grounds to organize this as a trade with the NSA. The funny (maybe scary is the right word?) part is that they can legally lie about this because it's with the NSA.
also coming to Canada: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2013/06/19/pol-mask-bill...
> Even in 1790 the government could compel companies to hand over all the information they had about a target of investigation.

I don't think they ever could compel companies by specifying the target as every customer on the off-chance that some where foreigners.
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People were used to having a phone with no internet too
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You aren't missing anything. Androids are available from premium Galaxy S4s, to discount pay-as-you-go discount devices. Android is a device for everyone and every demographic, and the charts reflects that.

However by using the layering, it suddenly seems like the iPhone is the phone used in the rich areas, when in reality if you compare layers Android and the iPhone have very similar distributions in those areas as well.
Software vs. hardware means you trust Microsoft to never in the future decide to spy and to never make a coding mistake that could turn the equipment on when it's not supposed to be.

When it comes to teardowns you trust that multiple independent parties aren't all actively lying to you in concert.

I don't see how these are at all similar.
That's great as this is one of the main reason we are using Balanced today for our soon to-be-launched marketplace.
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Nature's and Science's shenanigans are not publishing papers that turn out to be wrong, it's that (1) when contrary data comes up they refuse to publish it, as in this case, and (2) really questionable editorial policies, where articles get peer-reviewed by the wrong audience, and on-the-face obviously-wrong to anybody in the field papers still get published.

Every journal publishes novel and statistically significant findings, and probably encounter similar rates of type 1 error as Nature and Science. It's just that Nature and Science are more susceptible to human politicking and don't seem to face up to it.
If companies are people according to the law, then wouldn't individuals be afforded the same protection, in some sort of legal reciprocity juju?
They don't need to do that.

They just need to say "retain all data for XX years". Retention requirements are by no means a novel legislative requirement, you see them everywhere.

Now that PhoneCo. is holding all the data instead of the NSA, the NSA can then just ask the phone company to provide data on an as-needed basis using standard warrants/subpoenas using some variant of the Prism automated FISA/NSL-compliance system.
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It is certainly not for the engineering. I purchased a Makerbot and was horrified at what passed for engineering in the design of their product. They claim some absurd accuracy in the Z axis, when on my machine (Thing O matic) the Z axis carrier would flex a 1/4 inch while printing. How can you have .00? accuracy when the whole platform flexes .250?
The National Security Act of 1947 is the beginning of the modern American national security state. Compare to human gluttony, it's a relative newcomer.
My model isn't "install some click-and-point admin" tools. As you point out, it's been done.

It's that if you have an app that targets bare virtual metal, then you can push a lot of admin problems upstream to the app developers.

In particular: updating. If a single app controls the whole VM, you can drastically improve the likelihood that a single update mechanism will work properly. You can even automate it.

Similarly: configuring components. Right now the lowest common denominator software environment that is targeted is shared hosting. In shared hosting I cannot adjust the database, the web server and so on. So no account is made of how to make self-adjustability a part of the architecture.

And so on.

My point is that we should stop thinking about apps that we install on linux that are on VMs vs apps that are installed on linux in shared hosting environments. It's that the app should be conceptually be all that runs on the VM. That nobody installs "the stack", they install "the app".

I think it would still be a distinct niche apart from managed systems.

Edit: a re-reading of your comment suggests that, I think, we are groping towards a common concept, but from slightly different directions. If you're interested, I'll email a project proposal I wrote in 2010 about this very topic. See my profile.
Any recommendations on how I can identify any accounts that I've registered on Yahoo over the years? I don't think that I've sent anything important to them that would still be emailing sensitive information, but can't be sure - as I never planned for the scenario in which they'd essentially turn access to my email over to a third party.
There were newspapers, which people would post open letters in. I seem to remember a Reddit post about some gentleman calling another one a "scoundrel" and a "coward" and challenging him to a duel.

Later (in the 19th century), there was Western Union...
LinkedIn.com currently pointing to a parked domain
Won't this mean that anyone with the new account will immediately be drowned with all the spam of whoever had that account before?
3D printing a micro battery (smaller than a human hair)
That's nice, but https://www.theweddingfavor.com/ is down. At least replace your default nginx 5xx pages people!!
You can disable the camera by turning it around. The microphone is the bigger issue.
I wonder if their new CFO that started today wants to take back what he said about ClickBank's "strong digital platform."

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/6/prweb10846812.htm
Thanks. Shopping cart integration is first mover advantage. Stripe was the first to market with a product that dissolved two huge problems with accepting payments online: merchant underwriting and PCI-DSS compliance. Because of this it's unsurprising that i.) shopping carts rushed to integrate with them, and ii.) there is as much community good will toward Stripe as there is.

You could reach out to Balanced about API wrappers libs, I'm sure they would love someone to write language idiomatic libraries for them. It might be a nice contract gig.
Your link appears to be behind a paywall (must pay for archives access), but I think this is it? http://www.dmlp.org/threats/ubisoft-v-kyanka
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Yes, but its unlikely that an online game account was associated as the password reset contact account for confidential financial/banking websites.
> I understand that, theoretically you could sell your game and then keep playing it on a switched off console.

They don't seem to understand that the inconvenience of doing this will prevent the vast majority of people from doing it. If the option to disconnect from WiFi is behind even one layer of menus, most people will find it too annoying to switch on/off in order cheat the system.

If they simply ignored all those people who want to cheat them — let it happen — and make it super easy for people to play and share within their system, I think they would find that they earn more money.

(Though personally I am not bothered by a 24 hour check-in. Since all my devices are always connected, I doubt I would notice this in practice.)
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I really REALLY hate the Playstation controls compared to the Xbox controls, but I'm willing to make that sacrifice to save a hundred bucks.
Innovations like Tor, BitCoin, PGP, and TLS?
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What's much much worse than the spam from the original account holder is the fact that you might receive private personal communications from them. E.g. some long-lost friend could conceivably have you in their address book and choose to get back in touch.

Also, what about other accounts on the web that are linked to the email address? Many web sites allow you to reset your password by proving that you own the email address a user was originally registered with.

This seems like a spectacularly bad idea on Yahoo's part. I can't make any sense of it.
'Once it's standardized' is a chicken and egg statement - since to be standardized can only happen if other parties get on board. If nobody does, Google can say 'well we tried', whether or not they made any serious attempt to involve others in the process (which thus far it would apper they have not).

The fact that others could try to make their own competitors is an exact description of the situation where the web breaks down in favor of proprietary solutions and the strongest companies end up owning the web.
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