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>Part of the problem, Luke, is that you're thinking about containers in terms of a hosting provider. That's not your fault. You're a hosting provider. To you, cotenancy is not only a security concern but also performance and SLA. For almost everyone else, efficiency is way paramount.

Oh yeah. More fair is almost always preferable to more efficient when you are in a multi-user situation, and certainly, containers are more efficient.

I... have always had a problem, though, with this idea that you should virtualize clustered production applications; virtualization takes a big server and cuts it up into little servers (at a cost) - whereas clustering takes a bunch of little servers and combines them into a big server, again at a cost. It seems to me like once you are out of testing and actually need a full server worth of capacity, you don't want to use virtualization anymore. Multi-tenancy is a feature I need, sure, but for the cluster syadmin? it's all downside.

containers/chroots do make a lot more sense than Xen or Kvm if you must virtualize your production clusters; I guess that's the idea behind docker; make a clean way to pass around directories full of binaries.

I mean, to be fair, making packages /is/ a pain in the ass, so I can understand wanting a clean way to pass around your production code without using packages.

Really, the more I think about it, the more I see containers as an easy way to roll back all the benefits and problems of using shared libraries without going through the incredible pain of statically linking everything. Distribute your "binary" along with all the libraries and the environment it requires. Hah. And actually? I can understand why you would want to do that; Before I was a service provider I was a cluster sysadmin, and I've put in my time resolving shared-library conflicts.
Apparently the president can direct government workers to ignore federal law, so I'm not buying your claim.
Keep private things private.

The world doesn't need to know your sexual quirks, or your bank balance, and you shouldn't feel the need to broadcast it.

People I interact with know I have a wife, they don't need to know her favorite lube or position. That is crude and unnecessary, and a society that expects that knowledge and welcomes it with open arms has a major root issue.
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The majority of the USA (outside of the HN echo chamber) neither cares one bit about this issue, or probably has even a close to remote understanding of the issue to care more than breezing over a column about it in the NY Times on the subway.

Thus what you actually believe to be a major issue upsetting the majority of Americans actually is not the case.
Fundamentally yes, but it's worth commenting on, as we all have an interest in discouraging the next generation coming up wit developmental problems. More fundamentally, people have the right to protest.

If Amazon sold cigarettes specifically made for children, I wouldn't buy them and I would protest.
Except that The DMCA requires immediate removal upon complaint. Granted, the automated youtube-internal identification isn't exactly subject to that, but it was created in response to a lawsuit from the media companies about how hard it was for them to find and report infringing content.
Well, the server may be an 80286, but as its faq.txt says, that's not the machine you're talking to once the page is loaded. It's just a JavaScript console simulation:

http://www.mundoviejuno.com/bios286.png

http://www.mundoviejuno.com/terminal.js

Of course it is cool to see an old 286 serving anything, even static pages like this...
There was a dedicated fanbase for using Apple's System 6 day-to-day as recently as a decade ago or so. There's still a bunch of information up on the web and many of the links to 3rd parties at the bottom still work. http://www.vintagemacworld.com/sys6net.html
I'm an European and I lost all hope of ever visiting USA without losing the last bits of my privacy and dignity.

Back when TSA screening entered into force I pretty much knew it's over, but actually my somewhat (over?) enthusiastic contribution to the Tor project turned out to be, and I'm not afraid to use that word, the mistake that most probably hit the final nail in the coffin.

If even random companies mention my Tor project involvement in their recruitment emails than what is the chance the neurotic and overly paranoid American security agencies will let it slide?
It's just standard "we (Google) have more money and lawyers than you do" stuff. Nothing to see here.
Yes, they're calling it UberX and they've had it for a while.
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I made God's temple. It is 64-bit and multicored, more modern than most other people's computers in 2008. God said 640x480 16 color. That is the only thing retro.

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d, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among
the children of Israel: to you they are given as a gift for the LORD,
to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.

18:7 Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest's
office for everything of the altar, and within the vail; and ye shall
serve: I have given your priest's office unto you as a service of
gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.

18:8 And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Behold, I also have given
You're wrong. Last poll has both blocs neck and neck and the left have been consistently gaining across all polls (I tried to find the poll of polls but gave up, sorry)
Ancient texts should be considered as a philosophy rather than science, because almost nothing was formally proved that time, but lots of phenomena were correctly inferred or guessed.

Most famous insights, of course, were these about the nature of mind from the Upanishads, which uses state of sleep, deep-sleep (without dreams) and wakefulness as metaphors to illustrate what we now call "models of the world", "contexts", "cognitive dissonance", "frames of reference", or just the role of the mind (consciousness) in cognition - how we constantly distort, reinterpret and even ignore perceived reality.

Roughly, it was a notion clarified later by Buddha - "Life is shaped by our mind, we become what we think", the notion that all our (at least psychological) "suffering" begins (and ends) inside our skulls and doesn't exist in the world outside.

Another great notion was one of the Dzongchen sect of Tibetan Bon tradition, when they use analogy of a mirror to how our mind should "work" - as a mirror isn't affected by what it reflects, so the mind in its "primordial" (original, such that of a child) state is just a "tool" to "do everything", including things done by Buddha or Einstein.

More recent marvels from India including "Want to see a God - look between two thoughts" by "modern" saint Ramakrishna, which is "in continuum" back to Upanishads.

In short, in decent texts composed by highly intelligent authors (including so-called fiction) there is a possibility to find correct inferences and guesses for almost every observable phenomena, if your own mind is lucid enough.
Advice about open sourcing corporate software project
For the last year, the engineering department where I work has been developing an internal software project with the intent of open sourcing it. I built the original alpha of the project before my employment and my employer adopted it on a handshake agreement that it would be open sourced when ready... yes, I don't want to hear about the reliability of a handshake. The company rebuilt it using internal resources to get it up to production standards and then released it on publicly on GitHub. It was only live for a few hours before it was pulled due to "legal concerns" after some execs who were not previously aware of it got wind.

Now, I am told that the company has agreed to release it contingent on approval from legal. But here is the snag, they have limited our budget to engage legal, so effectively I only have one shot.

Any advice or insight? Help!
> Most developers never read the standard in the first place. I don't see how is this important though.

Do you write portable code in C and C++ across disparate systems and OSs, using multiple compilers?

I used to do that between 1994 and 2001. Don't miss those days of hit-and-miss about compiler support.

> We did not have a standard till 1998, yet somehow managed to use C++.

Yes we did. It was called the Annotated Reference Manual, used as basis for the standard, coupled with articles from The C++ Report, The C Users Journal (latter The C/C++ Users Journal).

> Same as with C, which had been used very successfully standard-less for almost two decades.

It works if you only care about one specific compiler. On those days the standard was the AT&T UNIX compiler.
As a parent, this is disgusting. I would like to hope that it fails because no one buys it, but sadly I do not think that will be the case.
So its still news to people that customs agents are all powerful.. :)
turns out that if you think police was bad, custom is 1000 worse. They can do literally anything and that's not just the USA. It's the same everywhere in Europe for example.

Also, I would strongly advise giving out your password if you want to be on your way. Refusal to give access is generally a huge issue.
If bootstrap and foundation are too heavy for your liking, I prefer Skeleton. Responsive columns, rudimentary basic styling, and not much else.

http://www.getskeleton.com/
Use the Source, Luke.

view-source:http://www.mundoviejuno.com/pong.htm

http://www.mundoviejuno.com/pong.js

You're playing Pong on your own machine, implemented in jQuery UI. The 286 is just serving the static files.
Ask the FSF, EFF, or some other team of lawyers for advice?
India is a lost cause. Human rights, Climate change and on many other issues have only been driving the quality of life for a billion Indians into the gutter.
It's pretty rare that this stuff happens to be honest. I enter the USA very often and TSA agents are very nice more often that not.

I should note that i travel with weird electronic gear that they've generally never seen (a lot of it is hand made..) yet, never had any issue. They do scan and ask to see what it is, I always comply with zero question of course.
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Ah, yes forgot about this. Play music doesn't allow you to save your music for offline listening on your laptop (windows/osx). Which sucka, but wasn't a problem for me, because I always listen on my phone/tablet,
My understanding is that US airports are generally not configured to separate transit passengers from the rest of the airport (there is a term of art for this but it is eluding me at the moment). As a consequence, if you're in America even for a few minutes, you'll meet with our good friends at Customs and Border Patrol. CBP is not TSA.
Which year Air do you have? When I fire up a Rails test suite on mine (hundreds of tests, many with JS through poltergeist) it doesn't stutter or enable its fan.
> If the pope ran for election in the average western democracy he would be far right

The fairly harsh criticism of modern capitalism in Evangelii Gaudium is hardly consistent with the far right. Certainly, the Church has right-wing positions on some issues -- which are in many cases the issues Francis has said the Church tends to excessively focus on and needs to not overemphasize -- while on others it has fairly left-wing positions.
Let's see:

Zelda and Mario series, pretty much every Square game, Halo, Star Wars games (though that's cheating), Minecraft, Castlevania games, Skyrim, Journey, Bastion, and many others.

Video games have about as much chance of having awesome sound tracks as other media such as cinematic films.
> CCFC director Susan Linn said “Babies thrive when they are talked to, played with and cuddled, not when they are alone with a screen.”

Let me guess. Two-parent household with enough money for regular day care, right?

I know a single mother who spends literally every single waking moment with her baby, not a moment to herself, and it's destroying her sanity. She needs electronic baby distracters just to get enough downtime to remain fit to care for her child. Fuck these sanctimonious pricks who think poor people don't count.
All the 286 is serving you ~70kb of HTML5 and Javascript. The rest is done on your computer.
I went and read the article, and I think it's obvious in retrospect why your point about your code is being ignored, and not just by people who haven't read the article. You start with this premise, which you appear to agree with:

I’m not worried about someone finding out my secrets, because secrets are just facts, right?

and go on to an example of a diary, one of the most personal artefacts we have, and imply that sharing it all with anyone who asks (as per the above statement) is absolutely fine. The implication of the above statement is that all secrets are pointless, including personal ones. In the context of a society in which governments and corporations are spying on every communication and looking for ways to justify it, this attitude is actively damaging and is an after-the-fact justification of that spying.

I think many people would agree with you that opening up your private code repos is a worthy thing to do, and it's certainly an idea worthy of discussion, with pros and cons (as you rightly point out, to do with maintenance and the public commitment more than anything else). The mistake in this article is relating that to personal privacy, and implying that secrets are just facts is a statement worthy of consideration.

If secrets are just facts and cannot hurt you, there is no point in keeping anything secret at all. Unfortunately other people in the world are quite capable of twisting the most mundane facts about your life (like your location at every moment, your sexual preferences, whatever), and using them to destroy your life, either because of their prejudices, or because of those of society at large. Witness politicians brought down because of some affair, or their private sex life - we don't know how many of those are leaked by our 'security services' for political gain but they certainly have done that in the past. No-one deserves that much power over others, and because of the asymmetry of power in our society, private information is far more useful to some people than others.

Perhaps that is not what you intended to imply, but that is the logical conclusion of the statement and your interpretation of it, and that's why people are reacting so strongly to it.
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This idea that understanding something from 1st principles is a burden instead of a good foundation is puzzling to me. The work one does in the abstract is the foundation for the concrete.

>The Bayesian method is the natural approach to inference, yet it is hidden from readers behind chapters of slow, mathematical analysis.

I don't understand the perspective that math hides information, as opposed to the view that it makes understanding possible.

Can you say you truly understand anything if you don't even understand why it works.

Do you understand derivatives by knowing some tables of pairs of functions and some handwavy ideas about slope.
I'm a Kiwi - I travel a lot - it's pretty terrifying to us too - we're all pretty flabbergasted by this news story - I expect there's going to be a big fuss tomorrow

Normally NZ customs care most about biosecurity issues - to avoid their notice don't bring in loose food - eat it on the plane or toss it - wash your muddy boots/tent/hiking gear - that cute beagle sniffing at your bags on the carousel is looking for food, not drugs (the scary german shepherds are probably doing that out the back).

Packaged food is usually OK - but if you're unsure ask - at the very least declare stuff you're not sure about - I almost got dinged for bringing mooncakes back from Taiwan one year, turns out they're bad because they're too eggy, I was let off because I'd declared them (as 'cakes' rather than 'mooncakes', who knew I was supposed to). They have amnesty bins you can drop that apple in at the last minute without worry.

I suspect this is a one-off - probably the NSA thought he was someone else and leaned on the NZ government - but do do what others have suggested - encrypt your sensitive stuff, leave it on an overseas server and pull it in when you get here - remember the NSA WILL look at it because much of our internet traffic passes through the US so encrypt what you care about.
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I noticed this last week that Uber has begun distributing lit logos for UberX cars to display on their dashboards. It struck me as quite Lyft-like.
Similarly, to take a slightly different topic, was it journalism to reveal the existence of Abu ghraib photos but not to publish the photos themselves?

I'm also not sure I trust the media in the role of verifying and then hiding evidence. Far better to just do full data dumps and let us figure things out for ourselves.
Publishers who own the IP to titles can claim copyright to the gameplays. Since it is basically free promotion for their games, it's against their best interest. Hence, you see them offering their blessing and support to YouTubers.
You do realize that the games you quoted represent 0.0001% of all games being marketed ? (regardless of popularity). I could just say you are being biased.

Besides, if you are an extremely talented musician, it's not in videogames that you'll get widespread recognition nor the best salaries either. Can you name any of the musicians who worked on the games you mentioned, by memory ? Good try.

So of course, people who are talented tend to move to other industries.
They are competing for the functionality of what used to be on the desktop gamer's desk.

The kinds of people who still buy desktop computers will be those who need them to do their work, play games, or do things 99.9% of people don't care about.

Executed properly, this will capture the the market that is willing to pay hundreds of extra dollars for top of the line 'extreme' consumer hardware so they can play games offered on Steam.
This is unrelated to the topic at hand, but Sam Altmans' blog has, at some point in the past week, been blocked by the corporate firewall I'm behind (large international bank). How long till they block HN, I wonder.
I do. Litecoin was meant to be GPU resistant, failed at that, and also at making it ASIC resistant.
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Someone should hook up LuaJIT. :)
Just when I was trying to move the iPad outside of the family! Now, my 19 months toddler only wants to watch all different Gangnam Style videos in YouTube.
Unfortunately, designers these days seem to hate modal interfaces because they detract from "walkup usability", so I doubt we'll see these making a comeback.

Then again, maybe Apple's multi-touch gestures are close enough to chording that they'll be rediscovered and become cool again.
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This is awesome, I'd love to do it. I type on a Kinesis most of the time, and it's great.

The one thing I wish I had though, was a laptop with a split space bar. Thumb delete is the best keyboard innovation in like 20 years.
You're going to DOS their offices then. Just write a nice, single email free from spelling or grammatical errors. I've started corresponding with the offices of my congressmen a few months ago, writing a letter whenever some issue comes up that matters to me.

I lay out my case for why the issue is important to me, then illustrate the importance of the issue to larger US society, then I ask what sort of actions or policies the politician is going to take on the issue.

I have gotten a response every single time and while some of the responses have tended towards the more formal, "blow off" type of response, I can tell that someone at the office is at least reading what I've sent them and responding.
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Why is popularity not a factor? It should be.

And do you seriously expect me to list a significant fraction of all games to satisfy your needs? That's ridiculous.

Here's my claim: a significant fraction of the most popular games have excellent sound tracks. I provided evidence to back up my claims, you have provided none to back up yours.
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Of course he's free to speak his mind, and indeed there are other professors who are skeptical about the cost/value proposition of universities, now and in the near future. I don't know if Ariely is tenured, but I'd lend his views a lot of weight in any situation.

Still, though, people are loyal to the institutions that sustain them... often unconsciously, and often via earlier filtering/selection.

There's no need to assume Ariely is under explicit workplace pressure to promote elite universities, or that he's hustling for the incremental gain to his status or income. It's enough to recognize that someone who's the son of a Columbia MBA, a graduate of Tel Aviv University and a holder of doctorates from both UNC and Duke, and a professor at MIT and Duke, has already been massively selected and rewarded for his deep-seated faith (and ability to thrive) in those sorts of institutions. His intimate familiarity with the system gives his testimony credibility, but his career involvement also makes it unlikely he'd say, "it's just not worth it".

So I'm not even particularly saying that he's wrong, just that his formally-titled, well-remunerated, large-sunk-cost and choice-supportive-bias position inside the high-tuition private-university system is relevant enough to warrant a mention, if he's giving cost/benefit advice to others.
Not sure if there is a correlation here but recently a bunch of iOS apps have been requesting this information as well, most of which have no good reason for requesting this info.
It would be great to have a service where-in you could rent a laptop, mobile phone, tablet etc -- then once it's returned, it's reimaged. Then those who travel don't have to worry about this sort of issue.
Lyft received some major 'lift' today via Conan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNM7Z7hir_I
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Lyft is more fun. I took 50+ rides in the summer. Unlike Uber, Lyft hires for personality. I became friends with some of my drives, had crazy city tours (including a walking tour!) and just generally had much more pleasant experiences versus the many Uber trips I've had in multiple cities.
Does this bother you? Aggressively targeting your competitor's employees? Imagine if Google went to your startup and offered everyone 100K signing bonus to leave. Would this be OK, within the bounds of acceptable competition?
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Odd considering if you look at my other posts you'll find quite the opposite. I sit here writing this on a CentOS ThinkPad...

Being fair and balanced and unbiased is considered a shill now...

Shill is word of the year.
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