skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vagrant mostly just generates virtual machines (with the option of running a provisioner), so it would basically be the same comparison.

Edit: I suppose you could be using Vagrant to provision VPSs and use your provisioning tool to deploy an app in one fell swoop, but most people don't reprovision a box every time they redeploy their software. Vagrant lets you build a base box, Docker is for deployment on top of that box.
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One of the biggest hypocrisy that exists here in India at least with regards to 'Remote Work' or 'Work From Home' policy is how late night and after office-hour work hours are handled.

While companies come up with all sorts of reasons to deny work-from-home during the day, they some how assume all those reasons(which they them self give) will magically vanish while employees reach home in the evening and now employees should be able to work late nights from home.

How does this work out? During the day you don't want employees to work from home, telling them they won't be productive and after office hours you expect them to be most productive while working from home?
The data doesn't erase itself. The phone, in its original state, erases its copy of the data, but that doesn't help if you're operating with (a) a copy of the data, or (b) a modified phone, which is likely given an adversary that doesn't find cracking 10,000 PIN combinations to be a significant hurdle.

In particular, tools automating (b) already exist: http://gizmodo.com/5896992/the-xry-cracking-tool-is-unimpres...
Coursera Begins To Find A Path To Profits
Yea, Dell had to rely on Intel's payments not to use AMD processors to meet EPS expectations:
http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2010/2010-131.htm
I totally agree. Fog Creek are incredibly transparent, both internally and externally.

There are quite a few negative comments in this thread that I just can't understand.

Fog Creek are transparent on who earns [1]what. For those who have complained in this thread, I'd love to know how much more you are earning, and can I have a job there too!

[1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000038.html
IPhone 5C's pricing
Turning trash into toys [2011]
>>Wow.

Wow what? You realize this mindset is extremely common, and that some people will in fact actively sabotage improvement efforts to keep their jobs, right?
Well, if they do well enough they should buy go.com
Yes, working remotely allows many more freedoms. For example, you can work in your underwear if you want. You can play your music as loud as you like. Most rules a company may set for your home work environment can't really be enforced, so I think that by allowing an employee to work remotely you are automatically trusting them to get work done without supervision. If you feel you can't give them that trust, then don't let them work remotely.
It's the decade before the vaccination program began, which is the 70s. Even then, according to the link the death rate is not 30% or 0.3% but 0.0125% which really seems miniscule for such a huge program to be rolled out.
I don't think anyone needs to know anything about Joel to criticize these policies. Having an opinion about Joel should really have no bearing on the discussion.
iPad 1 had a very decent lifespan compared to the tablets released by competing manufacturers shortly afterwards.
So basically car companies have to decide in electric, driver-less technologies or both to be competitive in the future. Will driver-less tech kill the electric car movement?
Nice example. GPS is another case; to get the most out of the data requires very careful modeling, including tidal effects, Earth mass density, and GR corrections. (E.g., https://gipsy-oasis.jpl.nasa.gov/index.php?page=software)
No. RTFM

It’s because a few normal ways of staying involved (face time, informal chats, lunch) have been removed.

From experiences of my own and from stories of my co-workers', this is the most brutal part of WFH. It takes a lot more of yourself to work diligently when you're alone and don't get the same face time, and this is about, frankly, stating how to achieve the same advantages in the next best way. Your co-workers may not know how to get that face-time back from you either; you need to initiate.
> Personally, I don't prefer micromanagement, but it doesn't make me unhappy if other things are being run productively.

What is this I don't even. So you don't prefer to be micro-managed, but you're fine if other people are? It doesn't work that way. This is a pervasive company culture. Either your company has these rules and everyone is micromanaged, or no-one is.
Thanks for pointing this. I was really confused with the parent post.
This is just like how the North Koreans used humiliation and sleep deprivation to brainwash American POWs.
I agree that if medical treatment for measles was put in a more punitive price range (depending on vaccination status, and economic background of course), I could imagine a significant drop in people who choose not to vaccinate. Use that extra money to immunize people who actually want it, but can't pay for it. Use it for programs that teach about the dangers of letting your child go unvaccinated, both for them and for other children.
Very cool, thanks for the info. I don't play games, but I do develop servers and I find this fascinating.
I bought an iPad 2 last summer for $200. This honestly isn't a bad way to get rid of it, except my biggest issue with getting a Surface at this point is my unfamiliarity with the Windows platform -- I'm not saying I wouldn't be able to use the thing, it's just that there would be a subconscious effort being made that I don't really feel like dealing with (at least.)

Still, I think having $200 to spend on Microsoft stuff isn't a bad trade. Office is expensive.
Yes, everyone who disagrees with you is doing the internet wrong. FFS
SEC Charges Dell and Senior Executives With Accounting Fraud [2010]
For what it's worth, there's ddg.gg.
Well sure there are some concerns that might be rational causes for concern, but to come to the conclusion that the pros of vaccination are exceeded by the cons is not anywhere close to rational.
You are being a drama queen. Stop it.

And the issue of pasteurized milk is certainly a red herring in this case, and just makes you look as kooky as those you deride.
Or the alternate explanation, most of the people in this thread disagree with Joel Spolsky. Given occam's razor and his fairly high profile, which is more likely?
I also thought that another difference was that vagrant can also manage cpu-level (hypervisor?) VMs (as opposed to just linux containers) - one of the main use cases for vagrant would be running it on your local computer- a laptop running osx or windows for example. Correct me if I'm wrong, but you wouldn't be able to run docker on a windows laptop, b/c you're just containerizing the parent os.... I would be curious to see how this could run on osx.
No thanks. This is all completely the opposite of how I want to work and I would never ask my dev resources to work like this. I wouldn't employ anyone that thought this was all a good idea and can't think of a single high quality dev that would accept it.
Did I understand this correctly: the DoD subsidized several million dollars of military jet fuel, to a shell company owned by Page and Schmidt, under a NASA research contract, which they used mostly for business and vacation travel?

(Seriously, did I read the story accurately -- it's confusing).

edit: I found the documents of the NASA contract:

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/business/foia/H211_LLC.html

Apparently these were disclosed by a FOIA filed by the New York Times:

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/23/a-new-fighter-jet-f...
I've had one in my shower since it came out. Still works perfectly.
The criticism has also been that they were acquiring/copying and bullying their way to dominance, which finally seems to be their downfall in an era where innovation and leading the market is a winning strategy. My comment related to the parent's observation that attacking Apple is in vogue not specifically to the fingerprint tech.

I would suggest that Apple is heading the same way but not literally. They are certainly closed source, about as bad as it gets, they are using their financial and political muscle to bully competitors and suppliers, they are coming back to the field in terms of innovation....
Read my comment again. I did not mind working a little extra because my co-worker had a bit of a problem with a slow internet connection when he was working remotely. I was confident he would more than make it up later. I did enjoy my work day in spite of his absence.
> The fingerprint ID is just another option, which you don't have to use.

Maybe not, but the mechanism still exists to capture your finger print — even if it's "turned off".

You may as well set up a location-aware tweet to broadcast "I'm here" every time you hit that home button.
Not worth it, you can sell an iPad 2 for $270 on eBay.

proof: http://www.thepricegeek.com/results/ipad+2
This is the one I was thinking of. I completely forgot about that book, thanks for the reminder.
Reading the Wikipedia article you cite for [1]:

1. That is hardly consensus theory: it is one hypothesis postulated by a small group of scientists, which is somewhat plausible but is very far from having a compelling body of evidence in support of it.

2. The theory is that vaccinations in the 19th century may have caused HIV due to unsterile injections given to many natives. Vaccination practice in the 21st century is much different from vaccination practice in the 19th century, and unsterile injections will cause all sorts of other problems.
I didn't downvote. Even relatively rich countries outside of Africa like Mexico, Chile, and Panama have very high violent crime rates, but mostly among the poor (in Panama anyway, in Mexico I suspect there's a lot more drug related violence.) So poverty is definitely a big issue, but tribalism plays a big role too, e.g. bloody civil wars and ethnic cleansing. A lot of violence in South Africa is either race related or tribal. So it's not that you're wrong, it's just that the picture is more complex than just poverty alone.
Maybe our wires are crossed but I was hinting that the critics have been vindicated not Microsoft.
Well, if I was working at a low morale Taco Bell, then yeah, I think I would want to work at your local McD's.

Otherwise, asking someone who works in technology if they want to work in fast food is kinda pointless.
This blog post was not written by Joel, nor does not sound like Joel. I think the comments are justified; the blog post feels quite abrasive to me. It's a little hard to put my finger on it, but the repeated distinction between work and vacation is a bit grating. Contrast this with a company like Netflix that don't count vacation days, and that assume that it their job to ascertain the productivity of their employees. I don't know, the whole post just doesn't sit 'right' with me. It's sort of "I bust my gut for you, I even try to work while I'm visiting with family, and you put me down for not having a room with a door that shuts and tell me I'm on vacation?!? (expletive deleted)" That's probably not at all how it is as Fog Creek, but that's the feeling I get from this blog post. Probably just unfortunate wording.
relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia_Coaster
Would they actually have a case, or are you joking?
You're just taunting us that the year isn't zero-indexed! You could at least have the decency to hide it from us like Oracle[1].

[1] http://www.techonthenet.com/oracle/functions/substr.php
I'm sorry but git is not "worth nothing," it's just that it's a public good and doesn't belong to anyone to sell, hence it has no market value. But consider how much software companies would pay not to have git taken away from them and then consider how much they would pay not to hake github taken away[1]. Which is harder to replace? I'm betting on git.

[1]: Imagine a hypothetical scenario where github had mercural as an alternative (for the case git was taken away.)
I think people on HN are quick to judge because we happen to be technically/scientifically inclined, and not vaccinating your kids and discounting a hundred years of scientific research by people who've gotten degrees and dedicated their lives to the subject, just because you read some articles on the Internet is the problem.
Donning tinfoil hat, NSA is just one part of USG. USG is one of hundreds of countries, zillions of criminal enterprises that would like to get intel's private keys and μcode format.

Given that intel is a large company the odds favor one/more external actors having access.

There's really no way to know without some sort of way for IDS to check μcode. Never going to happen due to the blackbox nature of closed, proprietary systems.
I've ran Docker on top of Linux, powered by a Vagrant VM just fine. It's exactly what their tutorial walks you through: http://docs.docker.io/en/latest/installation/vagrant/

I don't think OSX or Windows will run linux containers ever though. Maybe something conceptually similar, but I doubt it would be "Docker".
It really does not matter if there is something more serious like a vulnerability in the question. And so what if the link was a covert advertisement, the community is still benefitted if a popular product is put under the scanner. It is a win-win.
They do not invest in every company at Disrupt. Source: I presented on stage in NY 2010.
This is misleading. It looks like a gear, but they are just evolved nodules that caused friction that helped the bug escape predators better. We call it a gear but it is just a mix of physics, life, and death.
>>That's why a good manager should define goals of things that need to get done.

Good managers are nearly extinct species, whom you encounter once in a while in years. The remainder get to become managers by their political work and a results oriented work environment is something they will never build. Because if we were to measure progress by results, those managers will be the first to be fired.

>>As long as the goals are being met, management should allow their developers the freedom to choose their own work environment and hours

Their goals are very different than our goals. The goal of leaders is to produce results. The goal of management is to keep the wheels running, regardless of whether the running produces any results.

A good manager is automatically a leader.
That was painful.
The movie Elysium borrowed code from an experimental compiler for xort language
Industrialized edible product creation is largely a sick, perverted, disgusting process and it is supported by huge corporate financial interests.

Selling raw milk should not be criminal.

Those are two separate issues and trying to argue for one by pointing out the other isn't really effective.
I'm not quite sure why I collected the downvotes, but you're spot on. For example, I'm short and relatively uncoordinated. I have a few chronic physical problems in addition to this that make me "unredeemably incompetent" at the sport of basketball. I could work my ass off for the rest of my life and still never come within shouting distance of Michael Jordan. I simply cannot perform at an NBA level no matter what I do.

If there were a shortage of talented basketball players, it wouldn't matter how many copies of myself you were able to get into basketball training programs, you'd never get an MJ. We need a better system to find MJ's of STEM and allow their talent to work for us.
I wonder how Microsoft's Drawbridge OS (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/drawbridge/) will compare to LXC, and the Docker APIs? Currently Drawbridge looks like it's lacking adoption, and doesn't seem to be widely available. Regardless, the container model looks like it solves a lot of PaaS security issues without the overhead of VMs (Iaas).
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The problem is the kind of fucktards who don't get their child vaccinated might then delay or avoid treatment of their highly contagious child...
But I'm pretty sure it runs some kind of transmission.
Technically, I refer to when the syncing of the file starts (almost immediately) and ends (very fast). When we are all in the same network at the office the speed is limited by our network speed and our laptops.

I guess that a cheap NAS would probably perform the same or maybe worst. I don't know about a high-end NAS on a very fast and fine tuned switched network, but that's usually outside the scope of most startups in their early stages.
Teleportation with engineered quantum systems
> Well, if I was working at a low morale Taco Bell, then yeah, I think I would want to work at your local McD's.

Yes, if you work in the industry equivalent of a low morale Taco Bell (dunno, Oracle?), Fog Creek sounds like a great place to work.
> I've had one in my shower since it came out.

That is a long shower!
First self-assembled nanodiamond qubits are the vanguard of quantum computing
Indeed it isn't. My other comment on this post actually outlined a simple method to do as much.
Can someone explain to me why this page starts with a picture captioned "know thyself" of a cow reading a placard about cows? Just when I think it makes sense...no, I'm confused.
But doesn't PGP/GPG use the pub/priv key only to encrypt/decrypt a _symmetric_ key for the encryption/decryption of the actual data?
we need a _happy programmmers_ day
i'm not attacking him as a person, i'm attacking his actions, specifically in this case his shamelessly disingenuous linkbait guerrilla marketing masquerading as a public service announcement
I found Hemlock Grove interesting, the story progressed really slowly, luckily Netflix allows all-you-can-eat watching so I end up watching the whole season in a couple of weeks - where if I had to wait a week in between episodes I likely wouldn't have bothered. Overall I thought the production quality was high with good actors/acting and I liked that it had an unusual story-line even though I don't really like that genre. Will definitely watch next season, tho there are also better things on Netflix.
You're also spreading misinformation, and you don't even understand memory optimization. Your swap statement is a lie.

Actually swapping is good, it's not bad at all. I personally just don't get where people get stupid assumptions like free ram is good and swap is bad.
After decades of successful remote work on both sides of the paycheck, I find this recent trend pushing against it with formality and micromanagement pretty revolting. There are jobs that require specifically to-the-second availability called "customer service agent" or "receptionist," and timeliness is their whole point of existing and they pay a lot less which tells me that just being there isn't worth all that much.

Otherwise, wherever and whenever you're working, you should be judged on the outcome of those projects for which you're responsible, nothing else. If collaboration is required, your smart people (you hire people that are smarter than you in their field right?) will know they need to deliver their best in order to keep their jobs so they will work it out themselves. How that's going to happen, whether if it means getting together in an office, temporary conference room, Skype, or google hangout they probably know more options than you do. If you want to reasonably keep status on them, hold a standup once a day. Anything regularly beyond that specifically for no other purpose than management is telling them that you don't trust them and therefore they shouldn't trust you.
This is why this cost must be front-loaded. There should be a penalty paid when the vaccine is refused, much like the penalty we're contemplating now for people who refuse to enroll in the pending national health system. The logic would be the same. By refusing this preventative treatment, you're likely to incur a public cost in the future. We'd just like you to pay for that up front.
Certainly a lot longer than RT's lifespan, which is similar to that of a matchstick being lit.
I actually don't think these rules are unreasonable at all for permanent remote work (though they seem a tad stringent for ad hoc temporary remote stints). I mean, is it seriously asking that much for you to get a good headset and have a room for working? Working from home at all is a tremendous privilege, and these strike me as relatively minor requests over the long run. If it was requested that you dress up, then yes, that would be ridiculous.

However, the tone of this post honestly sounds a little frustrated with remote work rather than supportive of it, and I think that is what is leading to the comments here. After reading this, my impression is the author doesn't trust remote developers (despite a claim to the contrary) and that he generally looks down on remote developers. I would worry that remote developers are not seen as first-class citizens of the developer ecosystem at the company.

In short, even though I agree with these rules for the most part, remote development is something that needs to either be rejected or embraced, not regulated. There's not much middle-ground, because that's going to lead to micro-management.
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer reveals she feared committing treason over NSA scandal
During the iron age the most successful companies were those that exploited iron, during the silicon age its companies that most successfully exploit information. That seems somewhat logical to me.

As a species we're driving the costs out of creating things so everything becomes a commodity, and the value isn't in the making, it is in finding the one which meets your requirement in a sea of things that are all very similar, hence the value is in the finding, aka advertising (and to a lesser extent information distribution).
Since vagrant spins up full VMs, which need to boot, etc. it's slower. Spinning up VMs with vagrant, in my experience, takes tens of seconds to minutes. Launching an docker app in a container takes a few seconds (allegedly... I've never actually tried it myself).
except for the part where there is no actual vulnerability, it was actually a design decision[1], and the author of the article was raising ridiculous scaremongering questions that he knew the answers to in order to attract more attention.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6377712
You aren't talking about vaccines, you are talking about non-sterile vaccination practices in Africa in the early 20th century.

There are no longer any rational arguments against the most common vaccines.
Not that uncertain. Verizon is probably going to win. The current court is notoriously pro-business, and they actually have a pretty good case.
Phoneblocks a phone worth keeping
I don't understand "You can then transmit messages... in plaintext." A message composed of SERHYTVXA etc is obviously encrypted.

But another question: by how much is the system weakened if the pad data is nonrandom? Because I was thinking how much simpler the key exchange would be, if instead of sharing pad-texts, you only shared links to texts that were available on the internet -- both parties to use as a pad the text of a particular Google Book, or Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy article.[edit below]

Another option would be share only a "persistent identifier" to be used with [0].

[0] http://www.random.org/integers/?mode=advanced

[edit] clearly you would not want to access the pad at any time near to transmitting a message encoded with that pad! You would download the pad data at some other time, preferably with another ID.
Regarding point 1, I haven't read the book(s) so I can't speak to the extent of the evidence. It seems to be the primary theory at this point though; most of the alternative theories are just different variations on the vaccine theme, e.g. the version proposed by the book Down The River.

Regarding point 2, the lesson to be learned I think is that with vaccines there is a relatively large chance of black swan type issues coming up. And even if there were a way to catch these sorts of problems, the medical system isn't designed to even look for them.