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Moving along, this move for sanctions, Merkel and Germany election coming up, US threatening G8 in Russia summit, the House vote this week, we're seeing wide and deep domestic and international machinations that will likely continue and further reveal allies, obsequious weaklings, and `enemies' that would otherwise remain invisible. I cannot remember any other lone unknown individual affecting so much in so little time as ES.

Putin standing firm may make for huge third world/China PR gains and position Russia as a serious peer player like nothing else imaginable.
Hopefully they're preparing to produce a device that works in a park. Still waiting for the 21st century to catch up with the Psion 5 MX and PalmPilot...
You are totally nitpicking on semantics. Obviously the general concept of public key encryption is not at risk.
The whole concept crystalizes what I never liked about living in big cities. The tiny apartments with no amenities and the endless expenses to get basic stuff done.

My scenario, since I own a house with a washer and dryer: It's 5PM, I realize I need clean clothes for the next day. I spend 2 minutes gathering them up and putting them in the washer, then go back to my beer, or whatever else I'm working on. An hour later, I spend 60 seconds loading the clean clothes into the dryer. 30 minutes after that, give or take, I spend 5 minutes folding them and putting them away.

No scheduling. No waiting for SMSs and pickups. No giving strangers keys to my home. $25 still in my pocket (and given the time I spent, I paid myself a $180/hr rate in that savings).

But hey, if they can make a business out of it, more power to them. Doesn't hurt my feelings any.
> doing real work using children's toys instead of grown-up tools is inefficient and frequently produces substandard results.

While I agree that Google Docs are a joke, the damage done by clueless users with Office that could be avoided by taking away all possibilities of custom formatting is not to be underestimated.

I'm mainly talking about captioning images by aligning the following line at its center and creating headlines by formatting a line very big.

God, how I hate these people.
I was in a serious Forth mode in college (even wrote my own Forth-like language, just because, and even used it for a class project) and because of that, I came across _Thinking Forth_ (http://www.forthfreak.net/thinking-forth.pdf‎ PDF FILE) which ended up being one of only two books that seriously changed how I approach programming. Even if you never program in Forth, _Thinking Forth_ is worth reading.
Apparently they include an interpreter as well which probably could be used for debugging. And hopefully interpreter behaviour matches compiled behaviour, then ;-)
> Improved MS Office Interoperability

The problem is that this is a moving target (and event more in motion due to Microsoft's need to port this to some mobile platform, so no matter how much is invested in this issue, they will never get close to acceptable.
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OpenOffice download daily count is going down so yes
LibreOffice has won in long term
http://www.openoffice.org/stats/downloads.html
also the number of contributions is insane for libo
http://documentfoundation.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/develo...
FWIW I'd never do a CPU dependent asm code in the lex.
There's one catch - there are prepaid servers. You need to pay for 3, 6 or 12 months in advance.
There are significant cultural differences between how business is done in the West and in India. I talked about this in another comment.

I don't want to give you advice one way or another, because I'm not Indian, so anything I would say is bullshit. Talk to some developers in India who aren't just above average, but are in fact, stellar. Some of them are probably making good money. Ask them what they do, they'll be able to give you the best advice for the Indian market.
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Half the time I called a taxi dispatcher, the driver simply didn't bother showing up (probably found a fare on the way). Towncars want a reservation measured in hours. The new spin is having a critical mass of reliable drivers nearby. Technology is cool (especially GPS) but Uber could have worked over radio.
As much as your client is willing to pay, and no more.
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It is not philosophical, it is routine everyday choice every one of us make.

There is no answer that's not philosophical. Refusing to quantify your philosophy is philosophical.

It amounts to asserting that taking a position is wrong when only people who disagree with the philosophy you implicitly accept are taking a position, so it's also rather hostile.
Linux has had containers for years, they're called "OpenVZ". But Docker is not a container technology, it's an API over those.
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> "buying sinful industries in general, but particularly on bad news/dips"

Interesting model; haven't ever thought about it like that.
It may surprise you to learn that people in cities were able to get laundry done before Prim started.

Also, it costs me about $2.50 to do a load of laundry (washer + dryer), which is basically what it costs you (see: http://michaelbluejay.com/electricity/laundry.html). And it's in my building.

So I'm not sure which concept crystalizes this notion for you, but it's not one based in reality.
Ha. In one higher-level class (juniors and seniors), an older prof asked the class whether most students these days were religious. Response: "If we were when we started this major, we sure aren't now." Anxious laughter followed by contemplative nodding, all around.
Firebird will be the default database instead of hsql in Base so yes java will be removed in the future

http://www.ahunt.org/2013/07/firebird-now-in-master/

http://www.ahunt.org/2013/05/gsoc-2013-libreoffice-firebird-...
Not in stock Linux - OpenVZ has been a bit like Xen that way, requiring a custom kernel. Which for most people means a dedicated host machine is needed.
That's funny you should mention Peoria because my parents live in Peoria. We may launch there sooner than you expect :)
Small features. With the "press release" written by or with the client
As far as I now, the idea is that Docker won't be tied to LXC, but able to use different container technologies, like jails and zones.
Cheap, fast or good. Pick any two.
> - Run each website in its own tmux tab. At the beginning it's easier to reason about a foreground process than some daemonized process.

This is kindof iffy. I would not suggest going this route.
Despite JavaScript, you can also use CoffeeScript and Erlang. The later is un-sandboxed and that's why it is not enabled per default.
It has great advantages by doing it this way.

1. For developer:
- your application works exactly the same way on your development, test and production environment because of using exactly the same os/libs/configuration
- very fast snapshot/restore simplifies automatic tests and makes them practical

2. For system admin:
- configure your system once in order to make docker work, run any docker image (program) with one, the same command
- run many applications which do not influence each other in a quite safe way
- download and run application without worrying about its dependencies
- very low footprint in terms of disk/memory/cpu usage in comparison with standard virtualization
The fact that psychopaths and Obama share certain characteristics does not prove that Obama is a psychopath. Yet people continue to suggest that he is, citing the incongruent logic that overlapping characteristics imply equality.

The fundamental problem is not people's flawed logic, but the psychological diagnostic tests. Psychologists broadly categorize most disorders because they cannot find a reliable symptom that also acts as evidence of a disorder. That is, there is no symptom that definitively allows psychologists to say "Patient exhibits Symptom X. Therefore, patient has Disorder Y."

Contrast this to "biological" diseases like viruses or cancers. They exhibit physical evidence as symptoms. Doctors can detect the physical presence of a virus or a cancer. The evidence they find serves both as a symptom and evidence of their diagnosis. Thus, medical doctors can precisely define diseases by their symptoms.

Unfortunately, psychologists are not afforded such luxury. Yet many of them act as though they are. This is how we end up with severe misdiagnoses. We need to be aware as a society of how this affects us.
Microsoft gave all interns Surface Pros after concert by Deadmau5 and Macklemore
VMware have been promoting the "virtual appliance" concept for ages (I remember the competition with big prizes they had in 2006).
This is a semantic quibble. Your point could be restated as, "if you're not filtering potentially dangerous data out of your SQL queries (i.e. you're not using a fixed vocabulary of properly-quoted phrases) then you are vulnerable to SQLi."

think of it this way: no matter how you slice it, there are Bad Things you need to keep out of your SQL, and an easy layperson term for doing so is 'filtering'.

Recall that 'filter' != regexp.
I share pretty much the same experience. Although I have to say, DO support seemed to have improved in recent months and feels more solid. It's hard to put a finger on it, it's hardly scientific, but just a feeling. I'm at a point where some (smaller) production VPS are now hosted with DO, whilst the majority is still at Linode, just to "test the waters".

One more important thing however, network stability in particular seems way better with Linode currently. I keep getting random cron errors resulting from name resolution issues on at least two data centres of DO. To counter my own last point, Linode recently had quite a lengthy network outage at Dallas, so no provider is totally immune.

Bottom line: try to build an infrastructure where you can as quickly as possible migrate/recover onto a new droplet/linode/instance, ideally across different providers.
If anyone's interested in how this might play out, be sure to check out the Joss Whedon TV series Dollhouse. It's on Netflix Instant, and is really pretty great Sci-Fi.
I'll just quote myself: "Personally, I figure out the worst-case scenario and price it for that."

Experience helps with the above. Obviously you can never know precisely how much effort something will take. Stuff comes up. Even if the work itself is stupid easy, it might take you 2 hours to find the exact line of code that needs to be changed and sometimes it takes 5 minutes. And you never know which is which. So charge for 2 hours.

> the client will provide the vaguest of specifications and providing them with a set-in-stone price raises unrealistic expectations.

Clearly define the parameters of the project. Clearly define what you will do. Don't do any more or any less than that.

If the client needs something extra done, and this happens, simply price that out separately.

> The requirements are simply too fuzzy at the outset of a project to be able to price it accurately.

Example?
If you are interested in exploring this topic more, the fiction book Contact by Carl Sagan is based on the premise of detecting a radio signal from intelligent life. It is a great book that you will make you wonder what effects contact from intelligent life elsewhere would have on human behavior.
I attended a summer computer camp in 4th grade at Purdue University. Ralph Hempel taught us how to use pbForth on the Mindstorm robots. It was just a simple line following robot but my Forth implementation was much, much better than a LabView implementation that I did as a freshman in college (at Purdue, of course =)!

I really need to reverse engineer the file format of the pbForth projects. I contacted Ralph a while ago, asking for help to obtain the source from the pbForth files that I found on an old floppy. He never responded. That code is oldest surviving code that I have written! The only possible older code is the "code" (I think it was probably GUI flowcharts) that I wrote for the Mindstorms predecessor (what were they called?) LEGO robots for my 3rd grade computer camp. =)
Right, as soon as we can get a psychiatrist to examine him, we'll get back to you. Until then, we'll have to rely on circumstantial evidence and induction.

It does seem likely that anyone able to rise to the pinnacle of American politics would be a psychopath, so it's not as if such accusations are shots in the dark.
but then they will quickly pull the plug on it once someone actually starts using it.

they have just done that with the Netflix deal and Chromecast - already cancelled, barely 24h after it was made available.

it's bad enough to be dependent on gsearch and gmail, no need to also get dependent on wifi access, etc. for "free", with no guarantee it will work tomorrow.
Good point, didn't even know about this option.
Nevermind though, since I got my opensource drone on nodejitsu!
Thanks
I guess you're right. That article a few days ago has me fretting about GPL 2 vs GPL 3 and the incompatibility between them. I mean, I'd like my code to be used in whatever projects need it, and I'd like to be able to accept code back from them. But it seems like it would be really easy to accept code that accidentally constrains you to a particular license.
Purple Tie doesn't have 24-hour turnaround and doesn't serve my office every day. It's not that hard to make sure I send an order while I still have several days' worth of clothes left, though.
In India, your must spend under ₹34($0.58) to be considered economically weak.
There is one fallacy here: The 'thin' mobile client as being the future. Even though the world has moved towards thin client in the form of web clients, I firmly believe that the tides will turn - either by having the browser becoming a thick client itself (with local storage, lots of local logic) or by reintroducing native clients again - for which Containerization could play an essential role.

Imagine if we'd have a standardized container format on top of Linux, the BSDs including OSX and Windows with Cygwin - hello cross platform client applications with a single installer. Apple and Microsoft could integrate container technology in their AppStores and we could submit the same package everywhere.
Oh, that's clever! A press release is going to be much better than any acceptance test or design document. I can't believe I've never heard of anyone else doing it that way!
What I found most irritating in this piece, describing a voluntary internet-filter from one ISP, is, that every request any user makes (even, if not opted in for filtering) is made against the Huawei-DB.

Don't tell me, they do not log this...
I read your whole comment, I just don't agree with you. It would be wholly impractical to reclassify PGP as munitions considering its ubiquitous availability. It got declassified in the first place because there was strong legal precedent supporting the publication of the algorithm in book form. I think your fears are unreasonable.
If you've ever done any business travel, you know that a week's worth of laundry (Two Pants, five shirts, six pairs of t-shirts, socks and underwear) through the Hotel - usually goes for about $200-$225. If you are thrifty, and order a service, and are willing to wait for a week's delay, you can get your laundry done for about $100, but then you need to juggle logistics of actually getting your laundry to the service and back (and then worry about having to leave early, and stranding your laundry in a remote city)

If you are a freak (like me) - you actually track down a local laundromat, and burn a couple hours on a Saturday Morning doing your laundry to save the company $200, but 95% of business travelers just throw it on the company tab.

My advice to Prim - If they haven't already, reach out to Casto Travel (Typical corporate travel agency) - and every similiarly focussed travel agency, and see if they can get traction with the business travel market. You won't make any friends with the Hotels, but when I see a $250 laundry invoice for a single bag of laundry, I can't help but think that's a market ripe for disruption from below.
>C'mon guys let's show a little critical thought and stop looking for conspiracies where they don't exist.

What conspiracy? The administration retracted a policy. Politicians do this all the time.
Interesting approaches - don't have an OR or a high-powered drone, but that's intriguing enough to do a duct tape test at home with existing gear. Thanks for the ideas.
Docker and Digital Ocean servers are different things that can be used together.
Docker allows you to distribute applications that come bundled with their own OS-level packages/configuration.

Imagine you wanted to run Wordpress on your DO server. Instead of configuring a LAMP stack and setting up Wordpress on it, you could download and run a Wordpress docker container that came bundled with its own LAMP stack. It would be as simple for you as calling "docker run wordpress".Most importantly, its configuration would be completely isolated from that of the host machine.
Also excellent! Thanks!
Oh this is just comedic gold: http://www.shopinprivate.com/dick-rambone-14-inch-dildo1.htm...

I'm finding myself gleefully searching for and clicking on the most ridiculous products just to read the description and see the videos. Very nice marketing.
Could someone explain to me why a business would enter the hosting industry with minimum operating margins? My guess is that OVH plans to offer more premium servers, for greater margins, after it acquires customers.

Increase profit margins with upgrades. The more premium the server, the higher the profit margin.
So few apartments have laundry in SV. Seems like a great place to launch this service for those of us who don't work at a company that provides laundry.

Having to spend 2.5 hours on weekends for laundry is a huge time sink for me. By the time I find a washer, find a dryer, and then run a second dry cycle because the first one didn't dry the clothes I've wasted good portion of my day on laundry. I can't leave my complex because then I'd be the neighbor who leaves clothes in the dryer all day. I'll have to checkout Prim!
What do you think the wayback machine is? As for calling other posters retarded (and a poster who is generally on the same side as you on these issues, at that) - don't.
I hope you are being sarcastic...
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I can't believe people have asked me "how much do you want to make?" when giving me career/contracting guidance. I'm glad somebody else out there recognizes how silly that sounds.
Ask HN: What's your first command when you get back to the terminal?
Mine is `ls`, sometimes `git status`.
I admire the approach and allowing anyone to contribute, but for me to delve into things, I personally prefer something I can take offline and browse and take some notes on...PDF really is the best bet and would be helpful for me in this case...
Warning: obnoxiously loud video autoplays. OP, it's better to link to the parent site for a HN submission, in this case http://www.matiarobotics.com/

But content-wise, this is fantastic - great tech solution, exactly what HN is about. This is the best pitch I have seen in in several years; Mrs. Browl was watching it over my shoulder and quipped that 'it's like a Segway that's useful.' Couldn't agree more.

Apparently due to go on sale at end of 2013 for about $15,000. Not so cheap compared to scooters, but factor in th reduced cardiovascular and psychological medical costs, and I bet insurance companies will be happy to get behind it. Again, fantastic. Great find, OP. Also, an obvious licensing opportunity for American investors.
If you read the book, you'll see there are better ways to prompt someone to push a door open.
Do you always use only one sort algorithm for all sorting scenarios?
While some companies are fine in infringing copyright, only a very small subset would do so after being informed. Doing willingly copyright infringement inside the US can be quite costly. Just doing a look at the last 10 years court cases, the hundred millions in damages looks expensive.

Software developers has a similar situation as photographers has. Almost all companies ignore copyright on images when they publish a website, but they do respect the copyright after being informed about infringement.

So it only takes a singular individual from the public to inform the company. It doesn't need to be the author of the work to get the license enforced in the common case.
It's really interesting to introduce a longer delay (100 ms?) and try to speak while monitoring your delayed voice. At least for me it comes out completely garbled, like I'm having a stroke or something.
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>For those who are curious, the question was: is "for Hackers" a new way of saying for those who don't feel like actually studying the math, going through the proofs and working through the problem sets?

When I find a news reader that supports kill files; "for hackers" will go in it.
"No, you can't. Because you got duped!"
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Our prices reflect what we are able to achieve at this time without economies of scale: Once we scale up, these prices will inevitably will come down.
It hasn't stopped them, because nothing stops them. Dead children doesn't stop them so why would latency?

The latency on the military drones is actually far greater due to the latency on the satellite connections. The military drones are controlled on take off and landing via radio, but switch to satellite control for the mission. The lag does indeed affect the control. US military drones crash all the time. [http://www.zerohedge.com/news/us-drones-dropping-flies]

None of this matters when you can just get the Fed to print more USD and buy US treasury bonds with them and you just use that money to buy more drones.
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"In soviet amerika, Change reads your email"
If you want compatibility between the two GPL licenses, the easiest way to do so is to license the software under GPLv2 or any later version. Alternatively, one can add an exception for GPLv2 while licensing the code under GPLv3.
Didn't find any indication of what pelican is/does anywhere. i don't mean to be offensive, just some feedback.

suggestion: don't redirect the homepage to the blog. if it should be a 3-word explainer or a 3 page one is up to you, but i still feel a homepage has it's place. and you could have a call-to-action to your software, mailing list or a contact form.
"I'm not sure which concept crystalizes this notion for you"

Because the parent commenter implied it takes an hour of full time work to do laundry, which implies having to go to a laundromat.

But yeah, plenty of apartments in cities have washer/dryers.
Does anyone have any insight as to what will likely happen to Zynga's mobile apps if their business closes down?
Are you going to run this like millions of times? Is this for a `mousemove` callback tied on `document`?
I thought that was what Daily Show was.
Updated Satirical Answer: Move to San Diego where it's currently 72 degrees, lower cost of living than SF and a burgeoning startup scene.
But that's not quite true is it? You would still have to open up ports on your host, configure security, and somehow do the meta-config for the dockerfile to make sure that if the host goes down, `docker run wordpress` is called on startup right?

I really want to get excited about docker, but I guess I just don't understand it. Any links to more specific use cases?
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Id like this and would use it. you will need to be able to craft a good story to stand out.