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Solaris containers and FreeBSD jails are like the LXC technology. Docker, the suite of tools and utilities built on top of LXC, is what the new idea is.

Specifically, docker lets you build, define, and script new instances, and then to install and launch those instances with a single command, snapshot them, re-publish them, and so on. That's the real secret sauce behind docker.
Amazon does have Amazon Lockers - the 7/11 down the street from me has them.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/?nodeId=...
The cost of community mail delivery is not unknown. CMBs have existed for decades and the article states that the cost of home delivery is 130% more. So I would submit that we do actually know the economics of it. The cost differential is about $762 million/year ($269-$117 * 5MM mailboxes).

I actually worked part-time as a mail carrier doing home delivery once. It's not easy work, especially in the winter. A lot of people don't maintain their driveways and walkways in the winter and it can be hazardous especially when you're carrying 15 kg or more of mail.

CMBs aren't high-security. But they're surely more secure than unlocked home mailboxes, especially in sleepy suburban neighbourhoods where no one is home for most of the day.

I don't disagree that Canada Post could likely save money in other ways. But this seems to be a rational place to start.
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That's what I've been using.
Or a cow beverage. Could this milk be useful for feeding to calves?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_machine

Philosophy has been thinking about this for a while.

In my opinion, happiness is like life, it evolves. Targeted short-term pleasure is possible through extraordinary drugs, maybe in the near future, but probably the brain re-levels. It doesn't approach a stasis. At least, not completely (though happiness gets increasingly more refined over human history, so what seems like happiness now may be this sweet spot in the future that is its own ballpark which we largely reside in and explore -- again, I think happiness gets more and more pinpointed, compared to say Neanderthal times, but it doesn't necessarily ever approach a constant).
There's something even more fascinating you can learn if you introspect on this topic during an experience with a dopaminergic compound (e.g. cocaine, Adderall.)

Exerting exactly this type of willpower (setting long-term goals before short-term rewards) is what "spends" dopamine in the brain. The more dopamine you have available, the longer-term you tend to plan. And when you run dry, you feel "restless" and want to do things "on a whim."

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In the face of this, it's really quite fascinating how meaningless a term like "willpower" becomes. Doing what you want-to-want to do basically comes down to:

A. having enough dopamine in the first place (children should really get checked for ADD/ADHD at about the same time get checked for nearsightedness),

and B. making pre-commitments with strong consequences for reneging (e.g., losing money you've bet; or making you look low-status to people you care about.)

There's nothing else to it.
Not much, because I primarily use Spotify in car. I am sure the ads would be annoying if I am listening with earphones.
> It's the product of the eigenvalues.

It sure is (provided you count multiplicities correctly), but that's not the one-sentence explanation I would have gone with, even to someone with much more intuition about eigenvalues than you'd get from this document. I would say the determinant is the volume scale factor (or hypervolume scale factor, in the general case).

Actually, what's really interesting to me is your general point: why do <teaching materials for mathematics subject X> never mention <the key insights that made subject X clear to me>? And why does this question not get asked more often? The nearest I've been able to come to a plausible answer is a mixture of (i) the key insight varies from person to person more than you'd think, combined with the closely related (ii) you can't teach key insights just by saying a few words.
Removing Turbolinks from a Ruby on Rails 4 Project
I think we've used something similar some time ago (maybe XEN?) and had the following issues, how does Docker compare:
- what happens when one container changes the system clock?
- are iptables rules per container or global?
True, tho I haven't, myself, been able to reach a point where it bothers me. So far, my biggest annoyance was The Neverending Story soundtrack became unavailable (my daughter loves it).

And I have very broad taste in music.
Yeah, thats doubtful but you can run your own on a VPS (OpenVPN and DD-WRT router) and can push several hundred mbps no problem and probably closer to 500mbps; assuming the VPS is connected via gigabit.
I tried but somebody replaced it
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These boxes will be robbed on a daily basis in places like Burnaby, Surrey and Vancouver where ID theft is rife on community mail boxes
Probably pretty good since:
a) It validates their idea.
b) They just launched in Boston today. http://www.boston.com/business/technology/innoeco/2013/12/in...
His scenario is hypothetical with quick estimates of mortality and incubation period. This virus has been created in the lab and the formula is known. How is he then underestimating the technical feasibility?

>If we're instead talking about a mythical time in the future when we do understand enough biology to engineer something like this, one would have to assume the good guys possess the knowledge to develop countermeasures.

This is naive.

Understanding of weapons != Knowledge of countermeasures (since were talking about logical fallacy)
Fantastic idea and fantastic hack (OnDemand VPN) to enable the banner. Two questions:

1. Do you store the bank card, address, etc. locally or on your servers?

2. Do you worry about Apple / Google replicating the functionality of this service? Seems like one of those ideas that's super clever, but really leaves me wishing it was just baked in.
I propose Gcell for slang. It's quicker, analogous to Gmail, and vaguely reminiscent of Excel.
that is total R&D cost divided by successful drugs. So think, a lot of failed candidates, dumb ideas, and since pharma is siloed and closed, duplicated effort between different companies' skunk works. Also, regulatory burden for things that are lifestyle drugs (think: viagra) is understandably higher than a chemotherapeutic.

The actual cost of getting a chemotherapeutic developed is about 1-2 million in preclinical, and 12-20 million through clinical. Counting lots of inefficiencies, and, as I discuss downthread, we're stacking the deck in our favor.

Indeed, though your broader point is correct, clinical is more expensive and I think ultimately that should be done by a for-profit entity. But crowdfunding can nudge things in that direction by completing the preclinical.
I've switched to gmail some 4 years ago and before that was Outlook user since the 90es; that means I'm not familiar with the latest office version but it's not like I'm speaking without any experience.

Gmail has one of the best keyboard shortcuts ever, thing that always anoyed me with Outlook was that focus would get stuck between two panes and the only way out was to click with mouse. With few labels, powerful filter and incredible search, yeah I would say gmail is more powerful than Outlook. But like I said in previous comment, let's all agree that it is subjective.

What's definitely not subjective is Gmail being faster in search which still baffles me (outlook being slower). But having more than 10GB of email being searched almost instantly is something that I never managed to do with Outlook (and no, I never did have nor wanted to manage exchange server).
>Unlike an atomic bomb, which has grave local consequences

This is a little dismissive. Nuclear war under any plausible scenario wouldn't be an isolated 1945-type event. It would be a global event that drew in other players and more than likely would conclude in a mass launch by one of the world powers. We're not nuking Paris, Moscow, or DC and walking away. There will be retaliation.

Unlike biotech, these things are here, ready, and primed to hit targets. If there's a tail risk to worry about its human extinction via nuclear arms.
On one hand, you are correct that it's an ethical problem.

But on the other hand I think it's more salient to understand that, say, the students shot down at Kent State were murdered and the general population of the country was on the side of the National Guard.... that's the kind of complicity that most people live under, the same complicity that believes people executed by police for non-compliance deserve their fates.

On one hand, it probably really is a good thing that we are generally aligned toward lawfulness, but at the same time it does make us complicit when the people charged with upholding that law use it towards criminal ends-- which is quite common in the US.
And then there are titles like "70 Unique Ways to Encode ＜" which have to use a unicode workaround: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6864186
I'll be excited if:

- I can explicitly name and lock a given version (i.e. a checkpoint). This is a huge missing feature at my company, where we rely on collaboratively-edited spreadsheets

- I can select non-contiguous cells

- I can insert multiple rows easily

- I can copy formulas into Excel
Hijacked? http://verysmartbrothas.com/images/Do-not-think-it-means.jpe...
Starting from scratch, sure (everyone always seems to think of DNA and RNA as super-Legos; I blame Hollywood), but I think it's worth being at least slightly afraid of things like lab-engineered influenzas, given that flu is a very small, well-studied, and easily mutated RNA virus. Cooking up a more deadly (and, yeah, I recognize that we haven't proven that the Unholy Grail of "high mortality, long incubation, and ease of transmission" even exists in any single wild-type bug) influenza -- even if we don't necessary know the methods of action -- isn't a big lift as far as major bioengineering projects go.

If you're not trying to create a "supervirus," but just shotgun a series of viruses to create maximum health disruption, then (as you know!) it's already within our technical grasp. Expensive, time-consuming, and probably failing 90% of the time, but accessible nonetheless. Considering how bad our hit rate is on the trivalents, I could see a plague of multiple, high-lethality strains with a wide variety of hemagglutinin and neuramidase antigenic shifts as a plausible bioterror scenario.

It's not a doomsday scenario, since we have such good reporting and analysis infrastructure, and much of the heavy engineering on the problem (like alternate vaccine production methods) was done during the earlier bird flu outbreaks, but it would be a very nasty kind of terror attack.
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The article gives the average costs: The average cost of door-to-door delivery is $269 per address per year. The average cost of group mailboxes is $117 per address per year.

It's easy to understand why. It takes less time and effort to deliver to a group mailbox. (The mail has to be sorted regardless of which delivery method is used.)

It's not Canada Post's mandate to act as federally-paid community watchmen in the middle of the day.

If you think Canada Post is dysfunctional, just read some reports about the US Postal Service. In Canada, Canada Post outlets are often found within other businesses (e.g. pharmacies), to share infrastructure costs. That's rare in the US, where postal outlets are usually stand-alone.
As far as I understand, the clock and such are tied to the base host. Typing 'uptime' in my linux container shows 5 days, the uptime of the base host.
Don't break it, skate on it.
They already bought most of the boxes. I know this from doing contract work for CPC and heard them talking about buying them 3 weeks ago. I asked to look at the design just to see what kind of security measures are present and you can make a pinhole drill beside the lock and pop the whole thing. Of course nobody there thought this is a problem
Led Zeppelin exclusive to Spotify? Then I won't listen to Led Zeppelin. I hate this exclusive access shit. It doesn't make me pay for the service that has the rights, it makes me avoid the product altogether. Rdio is doing just fine for me.
I'm curious to know what you like about gradle.

A few months ago I had a chance to work with gradle and it looked to me like it was a step away from declarative project descriptions, back to writing loops to iterate through files, etc. Possibly I was using it wrong, but I've heard great things about it and perhaps my expectations were just too high.
Ok i think i fixed it now.. thanks!
I was thinking more like FreeBSD jails.
Containers can't change the system clock.
But this isn't reason divorced from reality — it's my experience that happiness does not have the effects postulated here. As I said, I have been happy on numerous occasions before. The result was not that I sat in bed all day with zero productivity.
The Story of My First Startup Failure
It's interesting to hear from some people that the direction we've ended up pursuing is the direction they originally perceived us to be pursuing.

#CommunicationFail

Anyone else experienced this?
Good spot - this is much better. I have to copy & paste values from CONTINUE cells now otherwise sorting is completely broken.
So youd rather fail? Or stay lifestyle?
They don't :(. Stick with the previous format if you need API support.

https://support.google.com/drive/answer/3543688
I just found Sway.fm for Chrome last night, and it's been awesome for playing SoundCloud.
Of course it's including the failures, we don't know whether your candidate will succeed. I'm reasoning in terms of the expectation value of the a success: the cost of one project such as yours, divided by the probability of it creating a useful drug.

"The actual cost of getting a chemotherapeutic developed is about 1-2 million in preclinical, and 12-20 million through clinical. Counting lots of inefficiencies, and, as I discuss downthread, we're stacking the deck in our favor."

That's only part of the equation. What's the probability that it fails preclinical or clinical trials? What are the historical success rates for chemotherapeutics? (Serious question)

edit: I've Googled up what I think is a relevant statistic? According to this source, of cancer drug candidates which completed US clinical trials between 2004-2011, 6.7% of the ones which entered phase I ended up as approved drugs (the rest failing out). Apparently this is much worse than non-cancer drugs, which have a 12.1% rate.

http://www.biotech-now.org/business-and-investments/2012/02/...
Nathan Myhrvold makes nearly the same point with lots more detail in his Strategic Terrorism paper. http://www.lawfareblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Strate...
Sent a few more :)
All your arguments against "super boxes" also work against post boxes where you drop off your mail - which work fine (at least, it does here in the UK).

Admittedly one-to-many box is a more complicated device than a many-to-one, but the principal is still the same - it is perfectly possible to maintain such infrastructure, anyway.
Hi,

No: it's not Emacs :-)

I think it's an interesting idea, though.
Is it the rights holders who specify the weird distinction between "tablets" and "smartphones"? Otherwise, I can't understand that.
I am not consoled by the fact that I am free to leave my own property.
Even if the job of software developers will be done by software, someone still needs to maintain and improve that software

Of course; my point is that you need a lot less programmers overall. Where a team was once required, now a staff of one or two will suffice, and this trend will continue as it becomes easier to do more with less. I'm not saying that the professional programmer will cease to exist, rather, I'm suggesting that the employment prospects for developers will inevitably fall in line with other industries.

Who's to say there aren't going to be new markets a few years from now? (For example, we'll need developers to write Google Glass apps).

I don't think there is much longevity in a "apps for yet-another-platform" future. To-Do lists and tower defense games have lost their novelty and useful/interesting apps are pretty rare. I do see platforms like Google Glass and Occulus Rift as potentially huge markets, but the cost of producing software for these platforms continues to fall right along with the discretionary income of all your potential customers who aren't employed as software engineers. It's a rapid race to the bottom.

In addition, even after all this evolution, current frameworks and languages are still horrendous.

Except for the burgeoning movement of hip languages and tools you wouldn't describe as "horrible to program in" that has driven the hype and growth behind the contemporary software golden age.
Segregate applications. If app one gets compromised, app two is off in another land. If my linode box gets hacked, without containers, all 16 websites will be compromised/go down.

Desktop virtualization using the NX protocol and Linux containers is also really friendly. Our company uses old Pentium D boxes for desktops. The performance gain from using a thin client + lxc + lubuntu is insane! I can actually watch youtube videos and draw in OpenOffice Writer. (Also great for disaster recovery scenarios).
I nominate Grellas[1]. Aside from the value I get in reading his posts, he is an actual member here on HN, and that's got to count for something over Snowden.

Edit: According to the leaderboard[2], he's got the 17th highest amount of Karma, the highest per-post average - an impressive 41.8, which is almost double the next-highest, [cletus] and roughly quadruple patio11, for reference.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=grellas

[2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
We've had 'Leo the Homeless Coder'... it wouldn't surprise me if AngelHack's mea culpa is to hold a 'Homeless Hackathon' on Market St. "Oh look, we're helping people, you know, teach a man to fish and all that..."
> This also commits the logical fallacy of ascribing superpowers to the bad guys cooking up viruses while assuming the good guys are sitting on their duffs letting bad things happen

It's the other way around. The "good guys" are cooking up viruses and publishing them as science (in this case at least)
There's a sad irony that your #1 complaint about Google's email product is its search functionality.
Physics - Concepts of atom and theory of relativity were explicitly stated by an Indian Philosopher around 600 BC.

Looks pretty accurate to me. All the best science comes from philosophers backed by feelings and visions instead of math.
Hour of Code campaign gets wild response from kids trying out computer science
I switched from Spotify to Rdio specifically because of the crappiness of the iOS Spotify app. This was in the past couple of months, too. I wrote about it, if you want more details: http://www.3till7.net/2013/10/07/why-i-switched-from-spotify...
Is this satire? Why would you start a post with a description why the remainder of said post is pointless fearmongering?

Theres plenty of dangerous technology out there, right now. We need not conjure superviruses. The only thing saving us is as usual the incompetence and scarcity of those that actually want to cause harm on a big scale. Don't think for a second it's the security theatre that keeps the numbers down or the lack of weapons of mass destruction.
Accidental release should be a major consideration. Also, there are a lot of crazy people out there who do a lot of crazy things for crazy reasons - their logic would either not make sense or be incomplete, but it wouldn't matter to them.

That said, I think biotech is an amazing force for good in the world, we just need to be responsible with how we deal with it. Which means defining and justly implementing 'responsible' is a core tech challenge.
Someone really should try that: A modern MDH powered by bitcoin.
Not just a Canadian thing. I grew up with one of these in a typical sprawling Texas suburban development built in the 1980s. Now my parents live in much older suburb and have home delivery.
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It's not available to everyone, I don't think: http://domini.cat/en_sunrise_faq/index.php#p4.1.
That's a bit of a trick question, because I do not find political authority to be desirable. Thus there could not be a choice that would be acceptable to me.
I live in Burnaby, where we have a community mailbox. It's never been robbed, as far as I know. It's encased inside a secondary metal container so we need two keys to get to our mail. Meanwhile, home mailboxes (near the front door) are almost never locked.

If you want to do identity theft, garbage cans are where to look. They're almost never locked.
I've used the Nitrous.io editor before. They provide an online development environment for Node.js, Rails, and a few other things. Their editor is great for quick edits, but I think the lack of extensibility in all the online editors/IDEs I've tried means they're basically a no go.

I'm also spoiled by Sublime Text.
I wish that first chart extended back to say... 1996.

I think it would have given a better scale to indicate how much the rise of the internet has effected traditional mail delivery.
Crypto weakness in Web comment system exposes hate-mongering politicians
The way the bot sounds disappointed/bewildered at the end of the call is absolutely amazing, as is the fact that the telemarketing company also denying that they use robots.
Since I have some experience with QML (Symbian, Meego, Ubuntu Touch and BlackBerry 10) I will try to answer this question as simple as possible:

There is wet developer dream to write software that can be written once and used everywhere. In mobile area one way to accomplish this dream is to use HTML + CSS + JS. HTML while being good for web pages is not the best choice for apps (while it gets better). Now you can replace HTML with QML. It is better than HTML because you declare everything in UI paradigms like rectangles, text, gradients and etc. (QML can be styled using CSS as well while that's not very necessary).

Unfortunately I have not managed to persuade people above me that we should try out QML and HTML is their choice (e.g. because of Win8 support).

Does QML solves run everywhere problem? Most probably no, each platform expects some "native" feel (even if "native" is done in QML). E.g. Blackberry and Ubuntu users expects sliding menus, Android users expect working back button and etc. Native always win over cross-platform if you want to win users while I would love to see cross-platform solutions working.
UN says Uruguay's legalisation of marijuana violates drug control convention
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