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Hi - I'm the author of this site. I'm happy to answer any questions about the technology or implementation!

One of the often asked questions is how to get containers to talk to one another using docker and how to add "runtime configuration." I explore both of these topics and more in the technology piece available at http://nick.stinemat.es#rethink-docker-technology

Thanks for taking a look!
Nick
The nearly 500 tech startups in Waterloo was pretty big news a year or two ago, even on HN. Startup success seems to be the problem in Canada. I'm not sure I could name a single one of those companies, even after considerable time has passed since that media exposure.

It will be interesting to see if bringing in new cultural perspectives can change that.
I'm a huge fan of doing a little code kata in the morning to keep things fresh. I just use a little library of problems and often revisit old problems and find new ways to express a solution. Will you be able to revisit old problems and submit new solutions to them?

I really like the idea and will try it out once the range of languages increases. I'd be interested once C, C++, Python, or Common Lisp are supported.
Ubuntu for Android is our convergence product:
http://www.ubuntu.com/phone/ubuntu-for-android

So we still use the Android software to drive the camera.

As a photographer though, I have to say that I don't exactly hate the N4 camera. Built-in HDR is kinda nice, and has saved many shots for me.
people got to Stratford Upon Avon and Shakespeare has been dead for years.

There was only ever one Shakespeare. There have been hundreds of royal families- the British one is notable because it still exists today. Take that away and they're just one of many, and tourists would be far, far less interested.

Then what do we promote? The Lake District?
59 comments and this is the only one with the word "black."

Race still matters, very much.
"My position has always been that there's two types of people opposed to pornography: those who don't know what they're talking about, and those who don't know what they're missing."
- Larry Flynt
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I inscribe so infrequently that it takes me some concentration to actually draw each letter with my hand. If I don't focus it becomes an illegible mess. Typing on a full-size keyboard takes no focus at all.

I'm unusually fluent with SlideIt on my tiny 1" x 2" phone keyboard.
I should have said public transportation in cities. In more rural areas, this would be less of an issue because of the otherwise low cost of living. There is less of an opportunity cost there.
This is great! I don't truly believe that no software patent should ever be granted, but we should definitely weed out the bullshit ones.

I would think mipmapping would be the core prior art, and that's from 1983. But I suppose anything over a year older then the application is good enough.

Also note there is another technique for patent manipulation which is to provide a provisional patent application (to start the clock) which can't be granted, then continually refine and the application as time goes by. In a worse case scenario you could taller a general patent into a specific patent based on someone else work, and have a patent already in place that will predate the new invention.
I have no doubt he'll do the latter. But I don't think he'll dare use it to prevent protest - if he does, he will face much larger opposition. Heck, I'll take to the streets if that happens, and the only demonstration I've taken part in in the last 15 years or so was a single anti-Iraq war demonstration that happened to take place across the street from me...

If we get that far, I'll also throw 10k towards darknet infrastructure if someone comes up with a viable project.
Indeed, but hackers are like everyone else in that they have 24 hours in a day. A higher willingness to learn yes, but climatology is not something you can just take a weekend course and hope to understand.

"everyone else" is at a disadvantage because they probably have less of that intellectual curiosity, and less time to devote it to studying things which may not interest them at all.
There are a lot of really cool tricks in this post for deploying Docker in a "real-life" installation, including disk quota, service orchestration, and dynamically routing traffic to your containers. A great example of how to take advantage of Docker's flexibility.

The rest of Nick's blog is worth a look too! Great stuff.
It always amazes me how often this lesson is taught and how often people fail to learn from it ;)
I read that paper a couple years ago and it changed the way I see object-oriented programming. All of a sudden, the dependency inversion principle just clicked.

I hope I hit the upvote button instead of the downvote button. I'm typing this on a shaky train and my browser will only zoom in so far.
Unfortunately, the big reason why Seattle is getting so expensive is just because there are lucrative jobs to be had here. Same reason why Silicon Valley is so expensive, but still on a smaller scale at this point. I think we're going to see more and more of this: the cities with a lot of jobs getting very expensive to live in, and the cities with fewer job opportunities staying flat or even getting cheaper--because their economies are dying.

So, unless your income is very high, to avoid having your income canceled out by the local costs, you will either need to find a rare high-paying job in a low-jobs, low-cost city, or find rare low-cost housing in a high-jobs, high-cost city.

Not that this isn't already the case--just saying, I think America's "jobless recovery" is going to make this effect more extreme in the near future.
SculptGL + Sketchfab = Sculptfab
I've had mine since May. Probably the rubber coating can be destroyed if you clean it too aggressively. Don't rub it with a cloth or an anti-static wipe. That will just cause small fibers to stick to the tacky rubber.

How to clean it:
http://itecsoftware.com/how-to-clean-your-nexus-wireless-cha...

In my case the charger sometimes sticks to the phone when I pick it up.
I co-own a restaurant as a side job. Saving 3-6 months or more worth of emergency funds for my personal use is the trivial part. The real problem is covering everything that the insurance policies won't cover to a sufficient extent: everything from building damage (maybe the landlord takes forever to rebuild/repair) to replacing equipment and any fees to go through processes and get all kinds of permits all over again. That's if there aren't external factors in play that causes problems (like maybe everyone else in the neighborhood got fucked by a major earthquake too).

This is totally different from my freelancing mindset since I have to start thinking about tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars just for floating a brick and mortar business for even a couple months, whereas my biggest investment for my main line of work is...mostly a nice computer. All this after insurance, so then it's time to start thinking about FEMA and bank loans (as if the stingy as fuck banks will give out loans).

All of this is on top of other hassles (SF, Alameda and LA counties are ....nuts for restaurant owners, to say the least) and it just sucks to think about. Maybe food trucks get more leeway or whatever in a lot of areas due to flexibility and size, but if I'm having these thoughts about a pretty profitable decent volume restaurant I shudder to think about the smaller fish out there.
Why the government's legal position on metadata is wrong on technical grounds
Ask HN: What are good sources of food while staying ramen profitable?
I take it ramen profitabiliy shouldn't be interpreted literally. Disregarding taste, what are the cheapest sources of food that is still considered healthy?
Tech cities: Toronto, Kitchener-Waterloo (poised for decline), Ottawa (poised to bounce back).

School-wise, the best talent in the country tends to come from UToronto, Waterloo, UBC or McGill. That said, there are tons of great programs all across the country.

We have some accelerator-like programs and initiatives aimed at fostering an entrepreneurial spirit generally[1][2][3]. Nothing comparable to YC as far as guidance and connections go, though. But I don't think anything has been particularly successful.

[1] - http://www.extremestartups.com

[2] - http://www.thenext36.ca

[3] - http://marscommons.marsdd.com/
Generally speaking countries don't extradite their own citizens.
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> Tax avoidance implies breaking the law.

At least in US usage it doesn't. Tax avoidance specifically is not breaking the law, whereas tax evasion specifically is breaking the law.
But that could easily be for an idea that's proven to be over 17 years old (<1996 and counting up). So they'd be digging through the floor, and might fall through.
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Google also has offices in Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver. I think there's even another one between Toronto and Vancouver.
I don't think that's relevant at all. A "protocol or API" as the GP mentions exists independently of the entity which created it. PadMapper, on the other hand, is actively accessing Craigslist against their service's TOS.
I don't know much about it but plan 9 had alot of interesting innovations in this field. I think the idea of it was to build a "UNIX out of a lot of little systems, not a system out of a lot of little UNIXes"
The first publisher of an invention has a year to file a patent on it. Because of the length of time taken to get to a filing, by the time this prior-art shootout takes place more than a year will have gone by and the prior art will actually disallow anyone from patenting the invention, including the original inventor.
I used to work for the kind of companies that only use Struts+Spring+Hibernate, and it's simply appalling how many of their applications are running on year-old library versions with severe security flaws. One week is the median lead time for an emergency deployment.
I think it's more interesting to look at the range of prices from a company you've actually heard of. Take ASUS for example.

ASUS makes the current nexus 7 ($199) : http://www.google.com/nexus/7/
But they will also sell you another 16GB, 7" tablet for $99
ASUS MeMo Pad : http://www.amazon.com/ASUS-MeMO-ME172V-A1-GR-7-0-Inch-Tablet...

Perhaps the lesson here is, by going back a generation, you can halve the price of a tablet. As we've hit the $199 mark for 7" tablets for some time now, $99 tablets from brands you actually know should be no surprise. As the price of these tablets fall to 150 and lower, one generation older tablets for 75, 60 or even 50 will become the norm.
> The reason being that the work is creative and technically skilled.

Given how fast I've been going through potential (literal) burger flipper cooks at my restaurant, I'm not sure that's totally the case. Some people are surprisingly _terrible_ at a job that many people consider to be the lowest of the low.

There is also a never ending demand for food ;)
Well that law, like lots of laws, is open to interpretation by judges/the legal system/etc. That's how laws and judges and trials are mostly supposed to work. The judges/jury didn't ignore the law, they merely had to interpret the law and see if the facts of the case fit it or not.

I believe the crux was that the law said it was illegal to have porn that showed damage to the anus, so does fisting fall into that category or not? The outcome was no, fisting doesn't count as damage to the anus. The "stupid law" wasn't ignored, it wasn't a case of "people using their own moral compasses", it was a jury & judge interpreting a law, like normal.

That it even made it to court meant there was a case to answer

The cynic is me notices that the accused was a lawyer who helped prosecute corrupt police officers.
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> "My mind is mostly made up, due to the fact I believe that the energy sector has a much higher profit motive to distort the facts than the academic one, but in any case:"

The "we're all gonna die" faction gets four orders of magnitude more funding each year than the global warming skeptic faction. Oil company spending on climate science propaganda consists of a few $million here or these, and the best skeptics don't even take any of their money. The best ones are unpaid amateurs (like Steve McIntyre) or they achieved a position in academia decades ago before belief in global warming became required to advance. I suggest you read some skeptics like Steve[1] and see if you think he is as evil as Phil Jones thinks he is[2].

Moreover, the environmentalists control the institutions which create public opinion - namely the media and the universities. I'm guessing this is how your opinion was formed[3]. It's remarkable how utterly dominant cultural forces can see themselves as underdogs.

[1] http://climateaudit.org/2012/05/06/yamal-foi-sheds-new-light...

[2] http://www.therightplanet.com/2011/11/phil-jones-for-your-ey...

[3] http://anomalyuk.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-modern-structure.h...
Is it just me, or does it seem like Canonical is taking all of their design cues from Microsoft at this point? Ubuntu's mobile OS uses all the same kind of edge swipes that Windows 8 uses and this phone looks like a small Surface.
Really curious about this. Building landing pages and such is the biggest pain the ass for me when I just want to build a fun app (usually a side project) and launch it. I hate the idea of every site looking the same, so I really hope you include a healthy amount of customization. It would be amazing to have a customizable page that I can deploy in less than an hour. My latest project involves customers that are absolutely _not_ in the tech world, so a page that everyone else has isn't even a bad thing because they wont notice.

Two other things I'm very curious about: pricing and domain names. Any hints or insight to pricing models? And will my apps have their own domain name or a subdomain like myapp.docked.com?

I'm looking forward to this, if you're looking for some testers or just feedback get at me on Twitter @_ryannystrom.
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Go with the yin yang diet- black coffee and white rice.
Understand that you are scientists in the real world and not in a Roland Emmerich movie.

You can warn and warn all you like, but if people don't listen, it's because they're free people who have made their own decisions through the political process. The answer is not to scream louder. They heard you, and don't care.

Want to end the debate on global warming? Make it moot. Turn your research into great products and technologies that reduce carbon emissions and are simultaneously what people want.

It's already happening: People are starting to want a Tesla S because it's considered by many to be the best car ever made. They're actually getting customers who don't give a rats ass about the environment, and that's exactly what you're going to need if you really want to save the world.
The U.S. doesn't need any examples to follow since the machine seems to be running quite well. If anything Canada needs to set itself apart because we're losing too many entrepreneurs to the pretty neighbour below us.
I suspect this is a distraction to direct the public's attention away from PRISM and the NSA controversy.
For development, I run my VMs with Samba so that I can use whatever local tools to edit files remotely.

Edit: I like the idea - make something you need, not struggle with overly complicated sync algorithms/apps to achieve the simple result.
Fliers can opt-in to allow TSA access to their browsing history
Snowplow co-founder here. Thanks for mentioning us liquidcool :-)

Snowplow is a little different from Piwik - Piwik is a LAMP-stack opensource app which replicates a GA-style analytics experience.

Snowplow is more of a scalable event analytics platform - it is built on AWS (CloudFront, Elastic MapReduce, Redshift), does _not_ have a UI but has a very clean & simple event model[1] and scales horizontally to billions of events.

To date, Snowplow is mostly used by web companies that want to warehouse their granular event data to build custom analyses, segment users, personalize sites etc.

If anybody has any questions, just shout!

[1] https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow/blob/master/4-storage/r...
An email will be sent today with the new password

Password in plain-text? I understand the convenience factor but doesn't sound very secure...
Drool Britannia: Why The UK Anti-Porn Laws Are Ridiculous
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I don't know (presumably few to none if Google is detecting them), but yes, I agree. You can be exposed but not be vulnerable.
RegEx tutorial in the form of a crossword puzzle
How to state a salary range
Google/pinject - A pythonic Dependency Injection library
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Drone joystick pilots versus airplane pilots
parts don't make a lot of sense, not every gifted child is trying to spend every waking hour on improving their talents. I don't know a child that doesn't enjoy play..

I find that a lot of gifted children are opposed to authority, which causes frustration with non-stimulating class work assigned by poor teachers.
I know a family in an expensive neighborhood of an elite east coast city where the wife has spent the 5 years since receiving her PhD at home with her kids.
Compared to SF or NYC, I wouldn't argue. But the rest of the States?
This is a pretty good guide for going "all the way" to production with Docker. I've saved it for later use, thanks a ton!
This is what App.net was originally doing before they pivoted to a status update service.

Their sites are still live for apps created before the pivot. http://app.net/toto

It provided lots of the stuff it looks like you're planning on doing. I'm excited to get something like this back. I loved App.net and was sad to here they were killing the original idea.
Hey,

Thanks for the feedback.

We're definitely working on giving as much control as possible with the CMS, we'll definitely reach out closer to launch and get your thoughts on whether it's enough.

Re Pricing and Domains: custom domains will be supported, you you can either use a subdomain or use your own custom domain. As for pricing, it will likely be based on page views (or some other measure of size). We're thinking of starting near $20.00 and ranging up to $100 a month.

Does that sound reasonable?
Yeah it's bad taste, but I understood it to mean that the program would be taken excessive advantage of.

I'm not even sure if it's an attempt at seeming edgy or w/e. Maybe once upon a time it was, but it's become a pretty common saying by now. You're fighting the good fight, but I doubt you'll win. :(
if it is __patentlyobvious__ that prior art exists

That's worth a chuckle.

(In truth, if it were patently obvious, this would be a much easier problem...)
Hacker SocNet?
Since there is so much love for the big social networks these days ;), and the next obvious evolution of Hacker News is an actual social network facilitating the tech-biz community in a subtly paranoid, optionally anonymous sort of way... who's got the juice? There is certainly a (very clever) user base.

Float ideas with "partners needed" feelers, and ability to "recommend oneself" to a potential project; Present partial APIs / nascent products / alphas withing the community; Business model could be management services, consulting, legal, fulfillment(?), etc.
How do you know that Paul Graham isn't using slave programmers in his basement to run Hacker News?
I never understood Google's desire to keep things like GGC tight to the chest. Another search engine isn't going to win or lose based upon their ability to run caching http proxies in ISP data centers.
> Uuuggghh... "follow God"... uggh. Makes me want to puke. I've come to the conclusion that Christianity is just a cult, no better than any of the others, just bigger. And due to its prevalence and ubiquity, more damaging.

Those kinds of comments belong on /r/athiesm not here.

It's one thing to disagree with the choice of the person, the teachings of a particular branch, or even the idea of a God.

But statements like yours are equivalent to Christians walking around claiming that all gays are evil and will burn in hell.

They are stereotypical hate statements that lead to emotional responses instead of intellectual discussions.
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Caml-Shcaml is an Ocaml library for Unix shell programming
Because Congress is incapable of passing laws, even ones they agree on.

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For me the definition of 'layers' was having to juggle dozens of interacting state flags and mutually exclusive vendor-specific extensions just to draw a dual-textured triangle or render to a render target.

COM really wasn't that much of a hassle in comparison. A couple smart pointer templates and you're off to the races. I can see how a C developer would really resent it though - nothing but a pain compared to GL's regular C, 'everything is void*' api.
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I'm a bit confused.

I always thought that FP and OO were orthogonal concepts and never considered them mutually exclusive. To me, the antitheses of FP would be imperative programming. Maybe I'm missing something?

CLOS, OCaml, Scala, I can think of many examples of languages that include components of both FP and OO. Or maybe we're simply considering that OO means this special paradigm used in C++/C#/Java (that really only claims to be the true and only OOP by the commercial entities backing these languages)?

PS: I googled around a bit, this Clojure article [1] seems relevant.

[1]: http://clojure.org/state
Oh, so one minute you say all those climate modellers should shut up and do more science, the other, they should spend a few years learning to be automative engineers?

We don't debate gravity through the political process. We can discuss how to tackle climate change, but that itself is not debatable.

And if they defend it, it's because it's under attack. The industry FUD would have many believe that it's the scientists that have a vested interest.
Good thinking, but in this case no. The high value crops they were going after were almond orchards and the specific data they wanted from the trees were only visible from overhead.
I would have preordered it if it had a physical QWERTY keyboard.
Wait, really? Isn't the RSX a DX9-class GPU? How does it not have any constant registers?
$600 is a lot to go all-in on a phone that won't hit the market until May 2014. The specs look great, but who knows what will happen in 6-8 months.
Getting completely off topic now, but I would actually pay money to read the spectate that. We just need to find something they disagree about that they also both care enough about to rant at each other for.
> You'll never pay a dime of US taxes,

That's not true. You can only get an exclusion on the first $97,000USD you make outside of the US, so YMMV. In Vancouver or Toronto, you'd be pushing it.
I didn't notice your reply otherwise I wouldn't have deleted my post. In my home town in northwestern MN there is an agricultural experiment station which paid $35,000 for a programming job a couple years ago. I made a spreadsheet and even as a single guy with my car paid off I'd only be able to save about $700 a month on that salary. And that's as a renter. Granted, heating costs are much more expensive in northwestern MN than they are in the south and a rental is a bit more expensive than $400. That said, if I had kids to support I would have had to live in a trailer park and would have qualified for food stamps.

I don't think that living in a rental and saving $700 a month is "solidly middle class" in the USA. Perhaps it is now, though, in a world of permanently diminished expectations.
this looks really fun!