skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You're right, today there are many systems which cannot run docker.

It would be better if you put a footer or a developer's view of the technology, otherwise overarching claims about its features could back-fire. MongoDB over-marketed themselves vis-a-vis the features it actually provided.

I think there is no shame in saying we use LXC container technology. We can run on these systems patched, on these with a custom kernel, on these inside a VM. "Virtually anywhere is a bit of a stretch" I think.

* We are adding swappable execution drivers to docker, so that you can replace lxc (the current default) with openvz, or gracefully degrade to a simple chroot.

That is a cool feature, I like it. Libvirt does this for regular VMs.

> In both cases, you still get the benefit of a unique (as in byte-for-byte unique) payload which can be transferred across machines and executed with strong guarantees of repeatability and consistency.

Good stuff. That sounds like a good plan.

What about a Docker cluster (or maybe you already have that and I am showing my ignorance here). Run docker on a variant of host platforms and docker containers could contain tags that identify what kernel/distro/arch is needed and it would be automatically started/migrated to that host. But it would done rather transparently.

Low resource VMs will be something hosting providers will jump on as that is direct money in the pocket (can put more lightweight VMs on a physical host). But instead of having a generic set of uniform host, they'd just provide the right mix of dist/kernel/arch flavors, underneath. "Oh look people love their Ubuntu 13.10 servers, quickly add more Ubuntu hosts" stuff like that.

> Docker solves that.

Docker is good stuff. I like. My criticism was not of Docker's product but its marketing.
The funny thing about the cabbie story is that it only takes one statistical outlier success story for the meme to spread to a thousand others who fritter away their savings in this manner.

I've also started to wonder recently about the relationship between the gambling instinct and entrepreneurship. While there is obviously a distinction (entrepreneurs are often pursuing genuine passions and/or creating real value), when you look at the real-world risks and returns, it certainly seems to have a similarly irrational component, both for founders and investors. (Not that I'm judging; the line between genius and madness is a thin one.)
Haha yeah we try to use different ponds for those two purposes. Actually when possible I prefer to keep cattle out of ponds entirely for environmental reasons, but faucets freeze too. I have a feeling that by the time this winter starts, I'll be hoping for some global warming.
The article's definition of rich is a real stretch. The article says the top 40% pay all the taxes. But, the top 40% of households includes every household earning about $65,000 or more.[1]

Remember that this is household income, not individual. A household making $65,000 could consist of, say, two adults and three children. Depending on where in the country this household lives, that might amount to a difficult or comfortable standard of living, but not lavish in any case. This doesn't fit the prevailing understanding of the word "rich."

[1] Two-year-old source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_...
On the virus he's actually writing about and the "gain of function studies" that caused so much controversy, part of the risk is not terrorists, or bad guys, or any ill intent whatsoever.

This kind of research is conducted in BSL-3 labs, and there's a not insignificant number of laboratory accidents, accidental exposures, etc. in those labs, by well-intentioned, well trained people.

I saw a presentation recently that estimated, using fairly conservative numbers, that 10 labs working on those viruses for 10 years had ~1600 deaths in expectation. Now that distribution isn't normal - lots of zeros and then some rare but catastrophic outcomes, but like many things, it doesn't require anyone to do anything actively malign. Just screw up.
Parts per million versus parts per trillion. Assuming the math is that simple (I think it is), CO2 is the larger contributor by five orders of magnitude.
30% off for your personal info... when the competitor price is free (also for your personal info).

att really believes uverse tv will be that good of a differential competing against free?
I've been mining on my AMD 290x for the past few days - I brought it for gaming, so I don't need to get a return on the hardware, and the heat generated is useful too - it keeps my apartment a little warmer. Looking at a profit of around $8 per day at current difficulty, which is a pretty cheap heating solution!
Code Samples and Hiring Developers
Ask them what success would look like to them in the span of 3, 6, 12, and 18 months. Where company would be. It'll give you an essence of what founders wants to accomplish, and what will be the size and impact of your work.
Yahoo Small Business snafu: Belding aluminum company's website, email go dark
Thanks for asking relevant questions and I agree about the dissonance. Our teams job is to make sure they are minimized and we're working on fixing those things. Something to keep in mind tho is that our team is very small (4 people), so it takes time to get stuff done.
Kind of like Facebook?
But in most cases, nobody was "hacked" at all. The photos were distributed, without limitation, to 1 or more people by the actual subject of the photos.
Emulating iMessage is an awful job that only a select few seem to have managed. The protocol is confused and complicated, the binaries are heavily obfuscated, and Apple's servers ban quickly and with little warning. Even those that have succeeded don't seem to have emulated it correctly.
How can you make a rational decision when you have incomplete, or false information?
Also, the alternatives are too formal (don't get auto erased), or far too dramatic (Facebook, where who knows what your privacy settings are non trivial to deal with, and new friendships aren't kept away from prying eyes of your friends and family).
I believe he means they are protected free speech.
The complaint I had was with the false equivalence.

From your link:

About half of Democrats (48%) say global warming is a
very serious problem

Should we conclude from that they're putting "the almighty dollar ahead of the environment", or can we agree that whatever they may or may not believe,

1) climate change isn't the sum totality of the environment, and

2) whether one chooses to believe or disbelieve in either its presence or its seriousness, that does not necessarily bely an ulterior profit motive?

Many Democrats are against the private ownership of 'semi-automatic firearms', but that doesn't mean that they're trying to disarm the populace so that they can crush us like Hitler.

Many Republicans are against expanding social welfare programs, but that doesn't mean that they're trying to crush the poor and kill off minorities through starvation.

Many Libertarians are against the idea of income taxation, but that doesn't mean that they want people whose jobs are paid for with tax dollars to be evicted from their homes and be subjected to the elements.

Whether or not Republicans agree on climate change, that does not mean they hate the environment, and even if it does mean that, it does not mean they're hating the environment because it's unprofitable to do otherwise.

In short, you've took an almost fact, overvalued its importance, devalued the importance of all other possible environmental concerns, and then drawn incorrect conclusions from that, for the purpose of unnecessarily vilifying roughly half the voting population of America.
Technical impossibility aside, I take issue with the whole assumption that there exists a Hollywood-movie "bad guy" who would take it upon himself to create a killer virus.

Yes, there are terrorists who do not shirk from mass murder to achieve their goals, eg. flying planes into the heart of the enemy's military and financial centers. But creating a virus that that respects no religion or national boundary and will kill everybody it touches serves no rational goal.

The only reason for somebody to do this would be if the extermination of the human race was the actual goal, and that's just so far-out that even certified nutcases like Japanese subway sarin attackers Aum Shinrikyo would blanch. The ideology of these groups is invariably that, while the rest of the human race may be doomed, they are the Chosen Ones that will survive, but viruses don't play dat. It would thus only make a smidgen of sense to do this if you had an absolutely solid antidote/vaccine that would ensure that your group can survive the onslaught... and if that exists, the rest of humanity can develop one as well.
We're talking about a fairly small number of rocks scattered across an enormous surface. On the Moon it's even worse because the Earth rocks would simply be lying on top and amongst other rocks. There is no possibility to identify such things from orbit since the rock fragments, after impact, would typically be smaller than could be resolved by an orbital camera and proper identification involves detailed mineralogical and isotopic analyses that cannot be done remotely.

We can, however, be quite certain that Earth rocks have landed on the Moon, and Mars, and many other planetary bodies in our Solar System. We have conclusive evidence of meteorites on Earth that have come from Mars, the Moon, and Mercury. We know this because of their distinctive mineralogical and isotopic characteristics. For example, we have been able to extract trace amounts of atmospheric gases from bubbles within rocks suspected to have come from Mars and we found that they were a very precise match for the atmospheric composition of Mars. Given those facts, and given the fact that simulations of impacts and evolution of the orbits of impact ejecta from Earth should eventually cause a significant fraction of such objects to impact the Moon, Mars, and other planets I think it's a virtual certainty that they have done so.
If I'm misinformed on the food stamps being used to purchase nearly anything, blame the news because that's where I got my information from. I see you posted a link to the USDA, interesting that you are assuming that since the government dictates it, then that must be the way they are being used. I suppose no one has ever received something from the government and used it in a way it was not intended.
coding is our jobs. The IDE is our primary interface. Of course its important. Its much more of a vital decision than what looks good (apple fans), its about what gets the most real work done.

Look at vim Vs. emacs for a better analogy.
steam for still sucks in the way requires full control of my box to games. i only run it in a vm or spare machine, limit the games i can use. if that box is any good, it will be very good for people with a minimum security concern for their main computers
Sounds like the rebel groups most in line with Western values just got pushed out of one of their bases by more Islamist rebels, who might have grabbed some of their weapons. Essentially, since the groups we support the most lost a minor battle, we'll give them less weapons and equipment, thus decreasing their influence even more, and making it even less likely that the end result of this war will be a government that has any interest in democracy.

God knows we have plenty of reasons for being weary of supporting causes in the middle east, but the more we step away, the more the fight will be between Russian, Chinese, and Iranian backed dictators and Saudi, Al-Quada, and other Sunni extremist backed Islamic fundamentalists.
Imagine ad-supported biotech.

Don't you dare.
Mars One Applicants: These People Applied to Mars
I read the underlying article. It's exactly as you expected.
I'm cheering anyway. It's not possible to have a set of laws or system that will prevent all misdeeds and protect all basic rights.
You might give http://getlambda.com/ a call. They post here on HN sometimes and they service mostly the SF and NY areas for development and connect you with engineers.

Also see the monthly hiring threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6827545

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6827554
Are you seriously disputing that releasing Anthony Weiner's selfies is journalism?
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=lmgtfy.com&l=1
Parse dialect in Red
The charges in this specific case are blackmail. I don't think this has anything to do with viewpoints or consent.

http://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-kamal...
It's surprising how badly a financial news channel got this wrong. Seeing the title I thought maybe this was a blog post under the CNBC domain from a first-day intern or something, but this is just shameful.
How do you handle it when one of your users needs a SQL server? Do they need to install this in their home directory, too? And lock down their install so that hopefully other users on the box can't call it?

NixOS can handle situations like this. It enables per-user package management with deterministic, immutable installs. If multiple users install the same package, it only puts one copy on the system. Each user gets their own environment where they can customize the package without affecting the other users.
Would this legal around the world? AFAIK Canada and probably parts of the US don't allow wearing bulletproof vests, and while a suit might be harder to identify as such, I'm wondering if it's still problematic.
That would explain the charges of extortion, but not identity theft (the conspiracy charges went with the extortion).

The identity theft is listed in the complaint as "did willfully and unlawfully obtain personal identifying information of Jane Doe #1 and used that information for an unlawful purpose to wit, to harass and annoy, without the consent of Jane Doe", about 25 separate counts. It's not quite clear to me what behaviour this covers, but I think it's adding identifying info to the photos - and if just that was illegal, that would be a pretty good change it sounds like.
To provide a counter-argument: those "older" areas are also denser, and not necessarily affluent.

Come to Hamilton. I'll show you neighborhoods full of worn-down century homes that are under 6 figures to buy. And they don't have driveways. The next mailbox is only 20 feet away, and there's barely even a front lawn.

Compared to the gargantuan two-car-garage megalots of modern suburban sprawl, that's a huge difference. The amount of time a mail-carrier spends walking from one home to the next is important since that activity consumes most of the delivery time.

So the fact is, we used to build cities that made sense to service with mail-carriers. Then we took the brakes off of sprawl development and now it's no longer economical to do this.

I want to see a cost breakdown - what communities cost the most per-house to service with mail-carriers, and what communities cost the least. You want a fiscally sound decision? Fine, base it on cost.
Interesting that this type of story has the opposite effect from old to new media. In the past only one side of the story would be promoted, no discussion. Now this type story commonly appears in discussions as a foil or straw-man, with facts and reasoning that clearly show the opposing view is right.
"Paypal froze over $70,000 in my account; Say they won't return it for 180 days"
Recent announcement allowed electronic devices but not yet phone functions that communicate with cellular base towers.

On recent flights with both United and Southwest, crews have emphasized devices must be in 'airplane mode' even if wifi is enabled later (for the inflight wifi service).

Cellular access is still controversial:

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/01/disruptions-calling...
That seems like a great opportunity! Put a big recycling bin right there, but before recycling the contents go through and catalog the mass marketing mail that was discarded without being read. Then sell that information back to the marketers. Less waste, more targeted mailings, money for the post office, everyone wins!

Yeah, I'm kidding... though it might actually work.
> (1) acquaintances, and (2) existing friends who may have drifted away over time.

sounds like facebook to me :)
these guys are so incredibly douchey i can't be bothered to use their shit.
Just for clarity: this isn't me.
You want to read a real story about this, Popehat is (as usual) your best outlet; he and Marc Randazza are coordinating an investigation of Craig Brittain, who appears to have set up a revenge porn extortion scheme using a fake "takedown lawyer" to enable victims to pay him to remove entries from his site.

Worth reading if only for extreme schadenfreude value.

http://www.popehat.com/2012/10/30/the-takedown-lawyer-lets-h...
You mean like the Guardian did after Snowden stole peoples stuff and released it? Or like wikileaks/etc? Or assorted other newspapers releasing illegally acquired information?
I'll one-up Parkdale - I live in the Hammer. Come visit Beasley, I will show you the most beautiful century-home crack-dens you've ever seen.
The Age of the Product Manager
Yea, but that's if you want to emulate iMessage to the Apple servers in order to send actual iMessages. I think the OP was asking about emulating it to the airplane firewall in order to tunnel through, which could be a lot easier and more useful.
+1 to my question: I wonder how many nerds are submitting something like "ZOMG HackerNews cert was bad."

Fight the good fight sir!
Reform corporate surveillance
My point is not that there are no lazy people who don't take responsibility for themselves. Nor does it sound like your situation is even close to my example of a mentally ill drug addicted single parent who beats his child. I do recognize that there are lazy assholes out there.

My point is that in between those two extremes exists the majority of homeless people who are mentally ill and who got to that place because of circumstances beyond their control. If you believe that the majority of homeless people fall into the lazy asshole category, then I'm sorry but you're delusional. We as a society should expend energy and resources fixing this problem at its root, and not just brushing it away into a new neighbourhood each time it becomes gentrified.
Thank you! I've already been doing a lot of the stuff you mentioned, and I'll definitely consider the rest. As far as citizenship is concerned, I can work for almost 3 years with my student visa (employer doesn't need to do anything either), so I'm not sure interning abroad would make much sense in my case. Also, besides language difficulties, a lot of internships outside of the US are either unpaid or so poorly paid that I couldn't afford to move half-way across the world for the summer. Good luck in your search as well!
My Northern ears aren't delicate enough to have picked up on those semantics. All I remember is Ya'll this and Ya'll that, cinnamon seasoned beans and rice (from some place my dad loved to eat at in down town Dallas) and lots of beer basted brisket.

For bonus points, I've seen Slacker. That should count for something.
FCC halts AT&T plan to raise Internet prices on Sprint and other rivals
The joke can't exist in a cultural vacuum. It has a lot of views and resonates with people because sexting on Snapchat is A Thing.

You can't really have much more than anecdotal evidence at this point, so I offered this.
I'd say that's on par or better than most corporations...
Has any individual ever been charged with fraud for misrepresenting their wealth? I understand its likely that the company faces fines and such, but I've never heard of an individual getting in trouble.
Interesting, will check the site out. Apropos: I had blogged this a while ago:

Bhaskaracharya and the man who found zero:

http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2010/06/bhaskaracharya-and-man-who...
I would much rather see the move to every-other-day delivery. I don't need daily mail. But I'd rather avoid the blight and inconvenience of communal mailboxes.
I'm not sure what you mean. It ended up costing about a billion dollars per person to send someone to the Moon. And those are incremental costs. Few people thought that the costs of the moon program justified the expense of keeping it running.
I can guess that jd0 has a very limited sample of exposure to hackers. I have lived in three countries and been very involved in cross cultural communication.

I would say the hacker community is very accepting.
Facebook isn't their only problem. If Upworthy videos suddenly disappeared tomorrow, would anyone care? That's a bigger issue than Facebook.
What isn't journalism by this definition? The simple response to your question is that if "journalism" has the nearly-useless definition you're providing, then "journalism" simply doesn't get to receive deference from public policy.

Candidly: the publication of the Weiner "selfies" wasn't a high water mark for "journalism" anyways. Media outlets could have authenticated the photos and then published the simple facts of what had happened. Instead, those outlets applied their own morals and judgement to the situation, made their own decision that Weiner was an asshole, and punished him by repeatedly and gratuitously humiliating him. Maybe that shouldn't have been O.K. The public interest in the actual photos was, let's be honest, pornographic.
I don't know how bad pharma politics are, but I have hard time imagining they're worse than crowdfunding! I think no one on this site really understands what you're doing. We know you're more credible than a homeopathic scam artist, which is to our credit because the broader crowdfunding demographic is unlikely to figure out the difference. (See fig. 1, sales of homeopathic remedies in billion USD). But would you trust us to figure out that your compound is more promising than some other one, with similar-looking technical jargon, proposed by similarly credentialed researchers?

I think the concept is incredibly radical. If this were a business idea, it would be functionally illegal: you could only solicit funding from wealthy, accredited investors under highly regulated procedures. Because people are easily mislead. And that's for stupid things like selling sporks. But here we are, pretending to scrutinize a million-dollar medical research grant, as if we were PhDs at the NIH office or something. Where do you want to go with this?
Who are you to decide whether I have incomplete or false information?
Is this any worse than any other site that allows saved credit cards?
I read an article a week or two ago about a mother that was a former private investigator researching the owner of one of these sites. She claimed that a lot of the women featured on the site had their info gathered by someone hacking their gmail account. I'll search for a link when I'm not at work. Don't really want revenge porn showing up in my search history here.
If you get the answers to these questions, could you please let me know??? calgaryeng[at]hotmail.com
While 'revenge porn' is a scumbag move, women should be thinking twice when taking pictures of themselves naked (men too).

It's easy enough to send a picture to the wrong person, to lose your phone, to have your SO open the picture in a compromising social situation (in a meeting, public places, etc...), in addition to the 'revenge' scenario.

It's easier to simply not take the picture than to assume your ex won't be a douchebag after you break up.
If rich in the US is a measly 65k per household then we're good and fucked. If I made 32.5k and my wife made 32.5k then we are far, far from rich, even in "cheap" Chicago, let alone NYC or SF. I suspect this is just more class warfare astroturfing from those rich enough to own the media and create political narratives that benefit themselves.