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care to elaborate what things you're missing? I'm using Outlook/Exchange at work and find it extremely painful to work with. in Gmail i can get everything accomplished w/out using a mouse, it's really easy to label and go to labels, perform advanced searches sand easily create filters out of those. I'm using some Outlook plugins (i.e. ClearSight) to ease the pain but those have problems of their own. Even silly things like replying to an email in "sent" folder to include my previous response, Outlook defaults to replying to me so i have to "reply to all" and manually remove myself.. where as in gmail i can just hit "a" or "r" and it will know what i'm trying to do .. it's quite beautiful when you utilize more of the keyboard shortcuts.
I doubt that makes much economic sense. If the delivery person has to walk to your door, he or she might as well deliver to all the doors in between.
Which certs are most important these days for govt use? Or does it depend on which department you're going for?
Most, if not all releases of Firefox have minor API changes. Sometimes it's visible via HTML, sometimes they are only visible to plugins. By semantic versioning, 25.0 is the correct version.
> that's actually most modern Linux systems now. Anything with a 3.8 kernel is game.

So Linux systems, that started shipping just this year?

Well but even that is not true because it was backport-ed to RHEL 6/CentOS 6 which is very cool.

Not all people live dangerously and install the very latest release on their server.

Ubuntu LTS (which is a common server platform) also doesn't natively support LXC well. It has an older kernel. So instructions for installing docker is to install a new kernel. A new custom compiled kernel on a production system. Hmm, is that still Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, some devops will argue it isn't, some will say it is fine.
This discussion reminds me of what Diogenes the Cynic once said on masturbation, "I wish it were as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly."
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Google Spreadsheets is VB/DBase/FoxPro for the web and like them, you can build a nice-sized product or company and upgrade to a "real" database for the tables you need, e.g. enterprise search on SOLR/Lucene. Specifically, you get super flexible, shareable, cheap cloud database with built-in UI, APIs, version and access control and more. Little or no training required.

My company has over 3,000 sheets (7,500+ worksheets) and over 100 "types" of tables. Compared with companies that used traditional RDBMS+app architectures, we've saved big $ between data entry and engineering. It allowed us to skip VC financing and win our market bootstrapping to profitability.

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Consumer demand is actually a pretty effective way to enact change in the food industry. If you punish the grocery stores and restaurants, the pain will be felt all the way up the supply chain. Walmart et al. pay very close attention to consumer demand and they can, and will, strong-arm their suppliers into complying.

(Edit: This is not to say that there shouldn't also be strict government regulations as well.)
> Do I just add more containers

Yep

> Sepeate servers?

Today, manual. Docker Host clustering is a feature that needs to be worked out.

> Configurability of items inside of containers

The `link` primitive in the 0.7 release is the key to this one. While primitive currently, it's already extremely powerful and will only get better.
Unfortunately, Rdio's Canada library is different (and from what I can tell, smaller) than the US one.
Civilization is not fragile, authoritarian governments are.

'We' (our respective nation states) are our imperialist bloodthirsty fathers. What country do you live in?
Those are orthogonal concepts ;-)
Conversation somewhere in Austin...

Billybob: Yo Jimbob! AT&T says they'll cut my bill $30 if I let them track my Googly searches.

Jimbob: Well dang! Sign us both up Billybob. They're already spying on us anyways, so let's get paid for it!
I'm not blaming the HN submitter, I'm blaming the author of the blog post. It's not just a key topic, it's the subject. You can't title a programming article "Programming", it has to be about something. Unless you're going for clickbait, which seems to work.
For anyone else wondering on what types of cancer this might work on, from [1]:

Q: Which cancers will 9DS work on?

A: We don't have a definitive answer, but initial tests show that it's strongest against some forms of renal (kidney) cancer, melanoma(skin) cancer, and triple-negative breast cancer. We have reason to believe that variants of 9DS will target different cancer types, as well.

[1]: http://www.indysci.org/details.html "Details"
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How many commercial wardriving services are there? Skyhook was an early one, but lost Apple.

Also: If 2.4 and 5.8 GHz satellite-based SIGINT were technically possible, at extreme difficulty and cost, it maybe within the realm of possibility of classified budgets.
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This is actually not the first oil boom in ND.

Housing availability is the big killer, plus lack of experience with a place that can -40F in the winter before windchill and 100F in the summer[1]. Going with the lack of housing is an overloaded infrastructure (water, sewer) that is being built up as fast as it can.

[edit] Also, a lack of people trained in the vocational skills needed for work in the area.

If I had the cash[2] I would try two things. I would probably build a combo capsule hotel, drug store, and laundry mat in the area (for single folks).

For a second thing, I have been fascinated with using pre-fab modules (think cargo container-ish) with standardized utility hookup that could be plugged into a shell building. Build a couple of building down the oil fields and see if the containers migrate.

1) this does play hell with the vehicles. I wrote a grant 20 year ago that included the stats on that and car maintenance given income. It was an interesting combo.

2) we are talking $$$$ millions
So basically we need to gamify business?
Reminds me of the $1 for a pixel site awhile ago, except the proceeds are charitable.

How are you going to manage content? Keep highest payer up until someone bids higher? or is it time-box based?
Rocks make great insulators though, which just leaves acceleration as an issue, though microbes handle high acceleration just fine.
Regardless of qt, you can actually already write android and iOS apps in python via kivy (http://kivy.org/#home).

It includes a domain specific language for creating widget trees called kivy language, which I hear is not unlike qml (though I haven't tried the latter), though it all maps straight to pure python if you want to write things that way.
It's not a new idea; everyone from Homer, with the lotus-eaters of the Odyssey, to Larry Niven, with his wireheads, has explored it in detail. I don't really count Le Guin's work among those explorations; The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas is more in the vein of a parable or morality tale than that of the sort of consideration you describe -- as with The Cold Equations, the usual result tends to be two camps, diametrically opposed for reasons which neither can satisfactorily explain.

The question of why healthy people tend to be opposed to lotus-eating is also not difficult to answer, especially given that what TV Tropes calls the "Lotus-Eater Machine" has been constructed several times in reality, and its addictive nature and harmful effects well documented [1]. Both in individual life and on the scale of societies, what we typically call "civilization" is nothing more or less than an unending war against entropy; this is frequently, if imprecisely, formalized in the common dictum that "it's easier to destroy than to create" -- and easier, too, to sit in one's own filth than otherwise, in the absence of some motivation to do otherwise. Unhappiness serves to provide this motivation, and it is therefore precisely that motivation which the lotus-eater machine removes. After all, if sitting in your own filth doesn't make you unhappy, because you have a wire in your brain which ensures sublime delight no matter your circumstances, why bother to do anything about it? -- and, as we see from one of the cases described in the page I linked, indeed you will not.

Consider, too, that the English language already has a well-known and clearly defined word for the concept of "pure, unmoderated happiness". That word is heroin, and while I recognize the modern unpopularity of the proposition among those who've never seen firsthand what it does to its unfortunate devotees, I maintain most firmly that that damned drug is illegal for excellent reason.

[1]: http://mindhacks.com/2008/09/16/erotic-self-stimulation-and-...
Surely there's one significantly bigger catch - only paying members can save playlists offline.
Digitalocean has a standard docker+ubuntu setup you can fire up for about that price. However, I haven't had much luck with its stability and switched back to running on bare ubuntu. Docker kept bringing the system down even when I wasnt running any containers!
What we're talking about is probably biochemically impossible (truly no bad side effects, no tolerance, etc.).

Eh, I don't know about that. Opiates are pretty close, and their most harmful side effect is the legal environment which proscribes insane punishments for involving oneself with them. Said another way, even if it's biochemically possible, it would likely be legally impossible for this happiness drug to be distributed at all. Best to point one's though-experiment apparatuses in that direction, I think.
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There is an option to opt-out but if this thing is successful, in not too long opt-out will not be available.
Can you select multiple, discontiguous cells or columns or rows yet?? That's the thing that kills me that is not implemented.
No, it doesn't. Because I think some of the things I mentioned are surveillance, and are ok. Common sense doesn't make up for people who are saying things that they either don't mean, or that I disagree with. Are you saying that you'd like me to simply interpret everything you say through 'well, that would be something I disagree with, so I guess he didn't mean it'?
You're not really explaining what's "foolish" or a "complex risk to society"...

Why is it okay to do it to several thousand people (selected in some non-systematic/statistical process more akin to voodoo than science), but not okay to do to the whole population?

Shouldn't everyone be treated equal? Seems like the way we have it now, if you get on some officials bad side you will get harassed by the TSA and maybe audited (there aren't that many tools at the disposal of the gov't to make your life difficult) And most likely no one will notice or care.

Doesn't that illustrate a more fundamental problem with our laws? And shouldn't we be addressing that?
A valid point, but since it is a through street there are more speeders due to the higher total of cars on the road in general - It does not take that speeding cars to elicit fear. That was actually one of the first things I noticed after we brought the baby home - the speeding cars.
Your content stays up for 1 hour, or until someone outbids you.
I came into a Las Vegas hotel one morning around 7am... literally drunk as a skunk and looking really rough... I told the concierge I didn't have any ID or a key to my room... She asked me what was in the room, I said a backpack. She then proceeded to give me a new key and open my door for me.

I could have been any random drunk who stumbled into that hotel that morning.
McDonalds had a "national hiring day" a couple years ago and hired 62,000 people out of a million. That's some 900,000 people willing to flip burgers who were turned away. Where are the jobs they are avoiding which they could actually get?
Really? I am generally happier when a company offers Canada Post as a shipping option.

I don't have to worry about being home to sign for the package, and for stuff coming from the US via USPS, I don't have to worry about exorbitant surcharges from the likes of Fedex or UPS.

OTOH, it's nice that UPS Canada's standard shipping no longer requires you to be at home (signature not required) but you also have to worry about people stealing your package if you live in a dodgy neighborhood.
Welcome to the Patriarchy.
"Trying to keep things secret is not the answer. "

Disagree. Of course it's certainly part of the answer.

If not then why not publish all the details of when you are home and how your house is protected for anyone to see? And exploit if the appropriate "nut" decides to? Some walls are helpful as a barrier.

Security (by obscurity?) does provide some protection. Locks do keep some people out. Going in the other direction (and making it easy for someone and very available) is not a solution to making things safer.
That's very specious to claim that's why someone would disagree with you, but I didn't have an opinion about Google Apps at first. It was only after spending a year using it and learning its differences and limitations that I thought it was inferior. As a software developer for 15+ years, learning new applications is not a difficult thing.
> If you need to reduce a distribution to a single number, the most informative number is going to be the mean.

No such rule of thumb is ever going to work, you always need to consider context.

In the case where disutility is non-linear with response time, especially if there is a cliff below which differences are irrelevant, an improvement in the response time to the worst decile may well be worth degraded performance for a majority of users. The most useful single statistic in that case could be, not mean, median, or mode, but the percentage of users who fall above the "unacceptable" delay threshold.
Spotify will offer a Collection service in the future. It was announced about a year ago, and beta applications just closed for it. I'm hoping we're going to see it sooner rather than later because it's a must-have feature for me.
Joking aside, if there was monetary gain to be had from leaving the barn door open, you bet business would take full advantage of it.
> Use cases

Continuous Integration / Delivery / Deployment, Embedded systems, Software/Service Distribution, PaaS, SaaS.. A shorter list would be what use cases is Docker not a candidate for?

> Beneficial to consumers

Efficient Ops allows for innovation to reach consumers faster and more often.

> Proprietary?

Nope.

Docker is open source and open design. Want to change the direction of the project? Open a pull request and get 2 core maintainers to agree. Want to change those rules? Open a pull request to change project governance and get 2 core maintainers to agree.
Well given I already had one melanoma I would be interesting in anything that solves that area. But how do a layman determine whether they are on to something or not?
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Yes... but this creates a diplomatic issue where Uruguay is seen as defacto condoning drug smuggling into neighboring countries.
Google spreadsheets lacks basic features. Like selecting multiple, dis contiguous cells or rows/columns.
If you want to retain staff, you can't reduce their pay. So, if retention is a priority, you are stuck with those salaries.

Even if nowhere they could jump ship for would pay them their old salary either?
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Seems like some of the other commenters missed the "thought experiment" disclaimer... obviously there are practical aspects that make this technically impossible.

I think what chimeracoder is trying to point out is our underlying assumptions about what individuals and humanity should be aspiring to. I'm somewhat of a nihilist, so I consider satisfaction with one's existence as the closest we can get to an "objective" good. I see "ambition" as a personal choice, something that provides satisfaction to those that desire it, but not necessarily a prerequisite for happiness.

I don't think chimeracoder is suggesting everyone should want to take a happiness drug. Rather, the question is: does it matter if someone does choose to live under the influence of such a drug? Would we consider their choice to be objectively "wrong", or just another way to live?
Interesting that they're opening with a different price model than Seattle's. $299/year and according to GeekWire their groceries are approximately 14% higher than in-store.

http://www.geekwire.com/2013/jeff-bezos-amazon-fresh-closer-...
I guess it depends on the size of the ballpark. 99.99% of code I write is pure C++ as all I do is, essentially, moving data around memory. My wild guess is that using Java I had to put these 99.99% into some external library as Java does not support memory manipulation. Either way, we went quite far from the original point of managed memory being a good thing (almost always).
Christmas lists should be written using PenAndPaper.

You can create a wishlist in about a minute using absolutely zero lines of code.

Here's a great tutorial on how you can get started with PenAndPaper.

http://studenthacks.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/thesis-pa...
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I would not use it because it sounds like something Google refers to as a link scheme.

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66356?hl=en
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True, but most of these issues can be mitigated by using best practices - use vectors instead of raw arrays, avoid shared ownership (and use shared pointers when you can't), etc. Of course, these don't make the language safe, but they do help alleviate the problem a great deal.

I wonder if it's possible to design a language that would be able to prevent these problems at compile time without incurring the runtime cost of managed languages. I mean, we already can detect some problems using static code checking tools (i.e. PVS-studio), so it must be feasible.
$70 instead of $100, not $100 off.
Is it really that DIY and cheap compared to other WMD? Is it easier to bio-engineer a virus than it is to steal a truck full of radioactive material [1] and attach it to some big explosives?

[1] http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/04/world/americas/mexico-radioact...
There's plenty of people with mental disease who are illogical, but they still have capable of causing harm.

And "bad guys" are not necessarily required for a global catastrophe. Human error can do the job just as well.
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I would pay a 14% premium to not have to go to the grocery store after work.
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One way to think of docker is as an installation automation and management thingie. However, it is better to think of it as an encapsulation mechanism for your setup. Almost like a vm in itself. A running docker container is also assigned its own private network ip address, which helps reinforce the abstraction.
>> Only people who live in older, more affluent areas built before community mailboxes receive home mail delivery.

I lived in the 'hood' - Malvern - in a house that was built in 2001 and I got door-to-door delivery even though houses built at the same time in Markham (just north of Toronto) were on community mailboxes.
Sounds like a challenging and rewarding transition :}
That's what I thought too. It's just FreeBSD jails brought to Linux, finally.

But I was wrong. Start playing with it for a while, and you will realize that Docker is not just about jails on Linux. Docker is about making portable, self-contained apps easy. It's about making sharing those containers easy. It's about making using those containers easy.

The core technology consists of a jail, yes. But once you've worked with the Docker registry and the Dockerfile (and its wonderful caching mechanism), and experienced just how easy it is to get something up an running, you will see that Docker > jails. Docker is much more than that.
Important bit -

The study, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, found PFTBA was 7,100 times more powerful at warming the Earth over a 100-year time span than CO2.

Concentrations of PFTBA in the atmosphere are low – 0.18 parts per trillion in the Toronto area – compared to 400 parts per million for carbon dioxide. So PFTBA does not in any way displace the burning of fossil fuels such as oil and coal as the main drivers of climate change.

Dr Drew Shindell, a climatologist at Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said:

"This is a warning to us that this gas could have a very very large impact on climate change – if there were a lot of it. Since there is not a lot of it now, we don't have to worry about it at present, but we have to make sure it doesn't grow and become a very large contributor to global warming.".

edit - is cool research, but the headline here is very badly judged.
MAD with nukes works because it's easy to know who is firing at who. Even if a bomb is smuggled into a country and detonated, the original manufacturer can be determined from forensic evidence such as isotope ratios.

With bioweapons, the perpetrator is much harder to track down. And if you don't know who your attacker is, you can't retaliate.
The vast awfulness of their app? Are you using the current version? I think it's pretty good! What don't you like about it?
Invert it. What we really care about is the percent of users who are experiencing a higher-than-tolerable response time, right? Why not measure that instead of using descriptive statistics whose goal is primarily to describe the entire distribution? Do we even care about the variance in response time amongst everybody below the threshold?
Motivations? They are not rational. Crazy. Mentally ill.

Take this researcher, Bruce Ivins:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Edwards_Ivins
From the very first section of the article ("Introduction"):

> They're also not as well documented as they need to be. All of the magic methods for Python appear in the same section in the Python docs, but they're scattered about and only loosely organized. There's hardly an example to be found in that section (and that may very well be by design, since they're all detailed in the language reference, along with boring syntax descriptions, etc.).

> So, to fix what I perceived as a flaw in Python's documentation, I set out to provide some more plain-English, example-driven documentation for Python's magic methods
Commonly called 'Onterrible' around here by the hordes that left.
The fact that employment can add 200K jobs in a month. When jobs open up they are filled.

There are around 11 million unemployed in the US. There are not 11 million employers looking for people that can't find anybody willing to work. If there was, everybody would have the UI benefits cut off for not taking those jobs.
Given the rest of the article, I think anywhere means any cloud host other than joynet.
They seemed to have fixed the graph, by the way.
Ah yeah. It looked really bad on my ubuntu box. Moving to OSX was a help
In 20 years I predict I'll still prefer executing code at the local OS level to thin client code hosted within an application running in the local OS. And having the application state updated after accessing local memory rather than after communicating across a network. We don't have to wait 20 years to experience the benefits of hosted applications, we have them today. And they sounded good to me. But after enjoying those benefits, I'd still give them up for the reliability and responsiveness of native applications.