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Hyper-V support interests, me, as I have a cluster of Windows hosts and would love to add CoreOS to the mix and deploy to my private cloud when needed.

CoreOS is putting some effort into Hyper-V support. There's a way to get it working, though I haven't tried.

Hopefully there's an elegant solution soon.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/coreos-dev/S3lbY2BV4...
How would you explain it to them? Or to the wider public?

Because while you say it is a tortured definition many people wouldn't be able to see it like that. To those people it doesn't make much difference if the data is on the Internet or in a black box, so long as limited specific searches are used and they only happen after warrants.
Wow great article. I learned about the difference between Ambient Occlusion rendering techniques: Screen Space Ambien Occlusion (SSAO) and Horizon-Based Ambient Occlusion (HBAO).
Oh! Lemmie try! Um, Cyber attacks! Someone found vuln in the avionics software used by that airline and has been fucking with the planes. Um, and the culprit is... A colalition of anonymous disenfranchised russian/ukranian teenage hackers who have been trained by the illuminati.

Yea, I think people will buy that.
That was exactly what was happening before 9/11 and the Patriot Act.

Other agencies argued that they couldn't properly do their job because they didn't have access to the information the NSA collected.

I think it should go back the way it was. Only filtered data that is critical to national security should leave the NSA. There should be public reports and committees to ensure that is happening.

The Patriot Act pretty much says, "here is access to everything, you can even share it with other nations".
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I've been asked last month to rebuild my church website. I'm going to show them this and get their feedback on utilising it, it looks amazing!
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Do I really have to go through the motions? I'll bite:

- The US is, among the developed nations, the one with the highest income inequality, and growing
- Unlike practically all wealthier and a remarkable number of poorer countries, the US has no social safeguard for people in case of medical emergencies. People die from not being able to pay medical procedures. And this is objectively a bad thing, from every possible metric.
- The inequality in education among the rich and poor impedes social mobility, again in a manner unheard of in many places.
- Countries who have succeeded or are succeeding in closing the inequality gap do so through a set of consistent, well-researched policies which all have the same effect and lead to overall greater quality of life.
- The power of law enforcement in the US has fewer and fewer checks, leading to the police to have an oppresive attitude towards the populance which, when combined with the privatized prison system, leads to the highest incarceration rate in the world, not coincidentially led by poor people, with an astounding amount of non-violent offenders.

This list can keep growing as long as I have time, so I'll just leave it at that and conclude the American working class has a naive to nonexistant notion of class struggle and suffers tremendously because of it.
Bluetooth audio introduces obscene amounts of latency. Whatever that dongle's doing, it's not broadcasting noise-cancelled audio over bluetooth. It's probably something low-latency like RF.

The wireless speakers/headphones and mics supported by typical mobile phones are all bluetooth. As a result, you wouldn't be able to easily (if at all) do noise cancellation for those devices via software.

You could totally do it for wired headphones, though, if you sorted out the mic positioning problem and the processing latency problem! The processing latency issue is the big one, in my opinion. Doing it without dedicated circuitry on your iPhone without the interference of other (system or user-mode) software is gonna be tricky. A pause on the order of 3ms could be big enough to cause audible glitches in the noise cancellation or give you a headache.
> One of the thing that always bugs me is that whenever privacy/security issues come up is that everyone seems to assume that the authorities are naturally going to gravitate to the least efficient, most invasive means of carrying out their job,

Have you flown in the past 10 years? Shuffling through TSA checkpoints in my socks makes me feel like authorities do gravitate to stupid measures.
Just for your information. There's is a simliar tool from Germany in german: http://www.churchtools.de/
Probably worth pointing out that this wont anonymize your traffic — instead of coming from your home IP address, it will come from the IP address of a server registered against your name and payment details.

That's not to detract from the functionality it does offer; just making sure people don't get the wrong idea.
Indeed! Very cool. I really enjoyed the Time Traveler art installation and recursive drawing.
You can not say both this:

> The government should not have the choice on whether or not to protect citizens, that's their job, citizens are depending on them to perform that action.

And this:

> If I want to smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol, or smoke marijuana, that should be my choice, not yours to make for me, as long as it doesn't affect you.
I don't know which Germany you're looking at, but there is significant anti-Putin sentiment and, correspondingly, newspaper stories and commentary calling for harsh measures against Russia.

But it is somewhat tempered by the significant anti-American sentiment that we've been experiencing for a bit now. I never thought I'd see this, but it's much, much worse than when Rumsfeld talked about "old Europe" (although that was probably overblown in the European press, I don't think Americans ever understood how damaging that was).

Luckily every few years one of the big TV stations is producing another emotional, uplifting "good American" film like http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Luftbr%C3%BCcke_%E2%80%93_N... and in those times you still feel how close we are to the U.S.
> (And we haven't even talked about if you're willing to sell to other denominations yet which, presumably, are using your software as tool to spread an ideology you explicitly believe to be false.)

Hopefully that wouldn't be an issue, just like it hopefully isn't an issue for a mechanic from denomination A to work on a bus owned by denomination B or a lineman from denomination A to maintain power lines powering a campus of denomination B. There's nothing particularly theological or beliefs-specific about the product other than "Sunday school" and "prayer request," both of which could probably fit the vast majority of organized religions with a simple title change.
I took one look at Kubernetes, and decided that for our purposes writing our own orchestration scripts from scratch would be simpler... So many of these systems are hopelessly overcomplicated.
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Lua does not do the currying bit, but it does a lot less OOP and a lot more "dictionaries with stuff that can do something like prototype OOP if you squint hard enough". Java and whatnot just don't let you really use methods as first class citizens, so it doesn't matter.
Do you have many other people working with you on this?

Even with just a couple sites I could see this leading to burn out very quickly with a small team unless you have daytime coverage across all timezones.

Your fees are also way too low for what amounts to 24/7 on-call service. You should be in the $XXXX range. Maybe high $XXX if you add some more limitations(like a larger response window).
The problem with p values: how significant are they, really?
Ask HN: New to OS X; is homebrew safe to install for non-developer?
I just bought a MBA and have heard a lot about Homebrew. There seems to be a ton of packages that it installs. Is this necessary for a non-developer? Would it open me up to a lot more vulnerabilities, or is it like aptitude and only installs those packages when I tell it to? Thank you.
Another terrible Coinbase story. A bug in their backend caused a transaction to go through to my bank account, withdraw funds, but not credit me coins.

Contacting support yielded no results at all. I had to go through my bank, close my account (which is a nightmare in itself), and get the money refunded via the bank's fraudulent ACH reversal process.

I would not trust this company.
I'm alone on this atm. I was going to be on call until I go crazy and then hire other people.

Perhaps you're right about the pricing. I'm just not sure how many fixes people want a month yet.
It is exactly like aptitude. The choice of packages could open you up to more vulnerabilities but homebrew itself shouldn't.

It's one of the first things I install whenever I reinstall my OS. That said if you're not doing dev I'm not sure what packages on it you are looking for?
Wow, I never knew of George Ellis. What an insightful and smart man! I'll be looking into him.
Is that really your only observation about the utterly extreme public positions I mentioned above?

Very well. Name one.
I don't believe you were ever actually in poverty.

The mindset I'm describing is one where you are forced to prioritize necessities - rent/food/electric bill, not one where you sacrifice all the small luxuries in order to be able to cover your necessities and save.
Chrome OS runs on a Linux kernel. Linux is the core OS for Chromebooks. Similarly, an "Emacs OS" would need a real OS underneath it.
Don't do that. You'll end up dropping the ball on your clients and losing them.

The idea is pretty sound you just need to charge more and find a few people to spread the load across.

One other problem I see is trust. You'll need a lot more about yourselves up there and why I should trust you with my companies software/data.
> My question is how far has decades of cut throat competition eroded the safety and maintenance standards of all airlines?

It hasn't. They're safer than ever.

But keep in mind that while airliners are very robust against all kinds of mechanical failures, human errors, and natural events, they are not designed to withstand battle damage or to have any sort of countermeasures. Their only safety from attack is they fly at high altitude, out of range of small arms.
It means the conversation is not welcome here.
Which, given the prevalence of discussion on similar issues, does indeed tell us a lot.
I stick with the default emacs key bindings because many of them work outside of emacs. Muscle memory has me constantly using C-k to kill a line for instance, and this also works in Mac Mail and Safari.
They care about fraud. That is a VERY rare case of an advertiser getting paid from fraud. I have been banned (intentionally) by their system and it is very clever at times.

Create a few accounts and see how far you get to $100.
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Sorry, let me clarify, the government has the responsibility to protect me from things that I have no control over, like a foreign invasion, terrorist attacks, and other citizens (and government agencies) obstructing my rights.

Makes perfect sense to me, do you still think that they are mutually exclusive statements?
Thanks so much for the feedback.

Any idea on where else I can post/advertise this?
My experience here in Italy is limited to few not-so-small projects, and from my experience I doubt that a contractor (and I wasn't thinking about an individual, but a company that 99% of the times is led by salesmen) would even think about touching a volunteer with a 10 feet pole. But I'm glad to know this is not true in other parts of the world :)

From what you said, a really nice idea could be to think about a process with which an administration could match volunteers with contractors... and then create an open source tool to facilitate that.
Safe, zero-carbon and proven: is fourth-generation nuclear the energy solution?
Fond memories of when I took a course on celestial mechanics. Weirdly enough, the theoretical framework was taught by a more "applied" researcher, whereas the "problem solving" classes were taught by one local leading researcher in the field. I still remember determining degrees of singularities on collisions and regularisations near collisions as an "easy problem to get up to speed"!
The only thing I know about functional programming is that I know nothing about it.
The Twitter trial of Gregory Elliott is becoming much like Twitter itself
The article is from 2011 and discusses Integral Fast Reactors. (I'd have put this in the title, but the title was already 79 out of the maximum 80 characters)
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Thanks. In Linux I used aptitude quite often to clean old kernel versions and install other verified software, and it felt good to install software from a relatively safe location. So, does this only install things that are in the Mac App Store?
Well, you can find an audience for anything. I'm a sound engineer (mainly for film) by profession, so although I'm pretty opinionated about this my comments are based on nearly 20 years years of field recording experience.
In all fairness, that was in direct response to some idiot getting on a plane with a shoe bomb.

I don't think it's necessary, but if they didn't require that then people would be blaming them for not taking enough action.

The times I've flown it hasn't been too much of a hassle, though I suppose it's highly dependent on the airports you pass through and whether or not it's an international flight coming into the US.
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I heard during AI Class (6.034 w/Patrick Winston) that the same experiment was repeated with adults but they had to say some pre-determined words the whole time, and they regressed back to the level of pre-6 year olds.

Speech uses the same part of the brain as thought apparently, so making someone say words prevents them from thinking during that time.
No, homebrew has a different repository from the app store.
>Poor is less about your income and more about the decisions that you make every day to spend all of it, , at least in my experience.

Being poor is ABSOLUTELY about income and NOT about being a single $150,000 / year programmer who is one paycheck away from being on the street.

1) Financial hardship happens to almost everybody at some point.

2) Being poor happens to some.

3) Poverty happens to a subset of the poor. These people are the mainstay of payday lenders.

The very idea that people who USED to be in groups 1 and 2 and think that they can lecture group 3 from experience is a gross insult.
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What about all the other branches of government that have brought loads of known (and who knows how much unknown) blowback?
I wonder if that really applies in this case / would hold up. I mean, if I do not enter into a contract with Coinbase and they come to have property that belongs to me and refuse to release it to me, I can surely sue them.

I'm not sure that you can get someone to sign away basic property rights in a contract.

Analogously, if I lose my password to my bank's website, I bet I can legally force them to return my funds.
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Today is startup school, and whilst Weave exists to allow networking, I figured that there may be some use in a HN thread to allow community note-taking and discussion. In part to make the information more widely available, and in part to act as a single place in which people can reach out, leave notes, etc.

As the majority of people attending use HN, this seems the best place for it.

See you all later.
Great. I will play around with it.
So we should instead trust a different payment processor that undoubtedly also has bugs, but has not yet detected and fixed them? (This is supposed to be a playful comment, not a bitter or sarcastic comment, it kind of came out the wrong way.)
Today is startup school, and whilst Weave exists to allow networking, I figured that there may be some use in a HN thread to allow community note-taking and discussion. In part to make the information more widely available, and in part to act as a single place in which people can reach out, leave notes, etc.

As the majority of people attending use HN, this seems the best place for it.

See you all later.
No. Homebrew is pretty much exclusively for installing GUI-less command line 'stuff' in OSX. Things like Nginx, mySQL, RVM, Golang, Bitcoind, etc. etc. Unlikely you'd even need it unless you're doing some kind of development or non-Apple-approved tinkerage.
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It doesn't just seem endless, it is endless. You just start and at some point you realize you will never be done.
> Gravity is a 1/r^2 force, so the forces get very strong and change very rapidly when the two objects come close to each other. This is not only hard to handle analytically, but numerically as well!

> the force diverge when r --> 0

the [physical] force isn't diverge - no 2 real physical objects can have infinite gravity force between them however close you bring the objects together. It is only the [simplified] mathematical model of the force that does diverge.

In general with regard to slow converging "solutions" my professor was saying that we can just iterate over the rational numbers (countable set) and thus we can always hit any desired neighborhood of the precise solution in finite amount of time :)
Or alternatively, s/he has "already" made all decisions outside of time/at the moment time began. From this point of view, any being that is both omniscient and omnipotent cannot change his/her mind, if said being changes over time, this implies s/he will make decisions now based on how s/he will feel about things later, after taking her/his own evolution into account.

I'm sure we're not saying anything that hasn't been said literally millions of times before half-drunk at countless frat parties.
I've been using a MBP (currently on v10.9.4) for over five years as a developer and I've never had the need to install or use Homebrew. All the programs that I use are available as .dmg or .pkg for installation. Of course YMMV.

I suggest that you wait time a "must have" program is only available as Homebrew, then go with it. As a general rule, I think it is unwise to install programs that you "think you might" need. As Sanswork hints, Apple App Store is where you'll get your OS updates from.
Gonads and skin color are correlated with a diversity of perspectives. All you have to do is look at the perspectives r/TwoX versus r/all, for instance, or Twitter vs. HN.

For instance, just see the period panties thread. Men don't have the perspective necessary to even comprehend the idea of period panties, let alone build one.

Not everything in tech is that obvious, of course. But it's worth thinking about non-obvious ways in which it might.
Well of course. Who'd want to be sober at a frat party? :)
I think t is rather like a Linux command, while Rainbow Stream is an app and focus on display and custom hashtag following with streaming API.
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I'd say homebrew is a little bit more secure than others, because they are pretty fussy about not installing to system-wide libraries.

That said, I can't think of a reason for a non-developer to use the packages found on homebrew.
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"Physics experiments are approaching the highest energies it will ever be possible to test by any collider experiment, both for financial and technical reasons. We can’t build a collider bigger than the surface of the Earth"

We can't build a collider bigger than the surface of the earth TODAY.

We had not gone outside of the earth, but that does not mean that in the future they wont.

That "we already know everything about the world" had been said for long. It was said to Socrates centuries before Jesus was born, and it was said to the inventor of the microscope(why do we need something to see everything we already know bigger?).

The interesting part is that we don't know what we don't know. E.g we know 0 about the real cause of gravity.
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There is a similar experiment showing pigeons outperforming Harvard students at an even simpler cognitive task.

One response to this would be to conclude that it's not like the typical Harvard student is a fountain of smartness; it is not able to sustain its existence by itself, would starve or get killed through its own experience (true enough; the average Harvard student wouldn't survive a month lost alone in the jungle) - which makes little animals superior.

A more sensible response would be to notice that humans actually are smarter than birds (I'm prepared to revisit that conclusion if any crows or pigeons can post reasoned arguments to the contrary), but that you can prove anything is superior to anything else if you cherry-pick the test carefully enough.
I consider myself a truthist for lack of a better word. One who seeks the truth, however, more specially, a monothiest.
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Right, so let's agree to a system when the government will open every letter, scan the contents, save them to a database, but not read them until after they've run some analysis and determined that your specific letter is of interest. That is precisely what they're doing here, except on a much larger scale than the post office could ever fathom.

It is shocking to compare this to the past. I've just finished reading "Team of Rivals", a biography of Lincoln, and the amount of deeply sensitive stuff that these high-level politicians shared in personal letters to their loved ones and colleagues is astonishing. No politician today would ever put such stuff in writing - if it got into the wrong hands, it could cause incalculable damage to their reputations, relationships, etc. Those guys were being entirely honest in hand-written letters that were delivered days away in different states by a very rudimentary postal system. They clearly had complete trust in the sanctity of the privacy of their letters.

This level of trust in the US government (or any, in fact) is pretty much unthinkable today. We (the people) have lost a lot of valuable ground here.
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Are Soylent's square meals a bit hard to swallow?
If it's about decreasing the chances of dying because of the actions of someone else at all costs (economic, personal, etc) - then the first thing the government should do is ban cars for the vast swathes of the population that don't strictly require a car (i.e. live next to a big city). That's 40'000 easily avoidable deaths each year - all they take is some inconvenience from everyone and a bit of investment in public transport infrastructure, in exchange for a dozen 9/11's worth of terrorism avoided every single year. As a bonus, the US's oil consumption would plummet and it would almost instantly achieve any environmental targets it can dream of.

What's that - you still want the freedom to drive? Even though it involves a fairly significant (0.01%) risk of dying because of things not under your control? Well, some people want the freedom to not be monitored all the time, even though it involves a much smaller than 0.01% risk of dying because of a terrorist attack. And all people should, and would, if terrorism didn't capture the imagination so vividly.
Sounds good! This is really neat and elegant by the way :)
Yeah, capitalizing on such an effort might spoil the fun but...

The code has been licensed under an Affero GPL v3 license so anybody using it in production must release any modifications done. So it's not really stealing the idea or the code, only the business model, which the OP apparently doesn't want to pursue anyway.

A non Affero license (or MIT, BSD, Apache) would have shut him off from his code (I can't decide if those using those licenses are masochists or just extremely kind). With this choice of the license the OP will get fixes and improvements and probably be happy with that. Furthermore he could be hired to do them, regardless of the license.
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