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Mr Lapham's writings in the Harper's Notebook column justified the cost of the subscription for me. The breadth of scope he would bring always amazed me.
No autolayout? Sounds like a feature, not a bug...
Please break it down for me? I'm clearly not seeing it (we often fail to see the failings in ourselves, it's just human), I for my part tried to clarify my stance; repeating "false equivalency" doesn't help me understand your response any better.
> If you're running docker on windows and you try to run a linux container, it will magically start boot2docker and start your linux container inside that vm if you are running on a windows box.

Maybe! Or you've used something like the new `docker hosts` feature, which could create a new instance for you on any infrastructure provider. Or you could be pointing to a boot2docker node, etc.

> Now if that is true, my question would be: How do you boot2windows for windows docker images when you can't freely distribute a windows vm?

I don't have a good answer for this, as we do not have a boot2windows product or announcement (I assume this is the opposite case, if you have a linux machine and want to run a windows image)

My guess instead is you'd be pointing to a set of infrastructure that can find (or create) Windows Docker Hosts and it would run there.
I think it's more screen size, not screen resolution. It's just that the two usually go hand in hand.
Huh, didn't realize that's what I did. Are you sure that you didn't just misread what I wrote?

I thought by this point that it was well known, well documented, and well established. So, any technology influenced by it should come with certain expectations that shouldn't surprise anyone reading HN.

Now, try not to be amazed by Moore's law but by saddened by the lack of progress in other fields. There's a lot of work to do.
> Its simply too large for the average user.

> Why can't smartphone manufacturers understand that a longer battery life is whats lacking in mobile devices?

I think it's quite bold to speak in such factual terms when talking about the "average" consumer or the market. Your opinion does not necessarily apply to everyone, or even the majority of the users. Not that I disagree with you, mind.

It seems to me that these manufacturers are a lot better at knowing what their market wants. I'm saying that because these companies employ a lot of people to figure out what people want to buy. You might be tempted to project your own opinion and common sense onto how the market should behave, but I think these companies are doing a better job at figuring it out. They have to.

I don't think these companies are either stupid or not listening. It really seems to be the case that a large screen increases sales, and longer battery life doesn't. That might seem mystifying to you and me, but that really seems to be the case.

Similarily, you can make phones from plastic, with confusing and slow software on it, sell them for premium price, and own 80% of the Android market in many countries. That is also mystifying to me, but that's what Samsung has accomplished.

EDIT: People are replying to my post as if I said that phones with large screens are a good thing. I didn't.
This submission is being vote manipulated, where the OP is asking for upvotes on Twitter: https://twitter.com/railstutorial/status/522454707814817793
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I've been a reader of Lapham's Quarterly for about 2 years now. So much better than watching TV and crappy movies.

Its kind of meant to be a starting point for readers to find something interesting and follow it through in more detail.

Similar to a curated list of topics with short bits of content to pique interest.

I love it.
I'd gladly pay a premium for the freedom to choose where/when I watch the movies/shows on each service. Owning a cable subscription now allows me a few free on-demand shows but they have selected availability windows (usually a week or two after air).
Interesting when you compare to the recent dynomak paper announcement[1]. The pointer to 'superconducting magnets' doesn't get a lot of ink though. I went by Fry's the other day and they were out of them :-) I wondered about them because to date such things usually are sitting in a cryogenic bath (think MRI machine) and not next to a million degree hot plasma. Even in the LHC there is a lot of space between the beam and the ring magnets. Dr McGuire in the article suggests -- “We should be able to go to 100% or beyond,” which is quite the challenge from the thermal management perspective.

It is however another great example that there is money going into lots of different fusion ideas. And that can only be a good thing as far as I am concerned.

[1] http://www.washington.edu/news/2014/10/08/uw-fusion-reactor-...
But if you have an Android device, you can do much more with this or a Chromecast, because both support Google Cast. XBox only has the crappy Smart Glass app (it's probably good on Windows Phone), and that's it.

(I own an XBox One)
Think it's a great idea. Not a fan that your site prevents mouse scrolling on my machine. Mac/Chrome 38
Their claims sound too good to be true, if you ask me. I am especially skeptical since they advertise that they will export your data to GitHub [0] and give their own website's repo as example [1].

[0] It's on the bottom of their homepage somewhere.

[1] https://github.com/the-domains/the-grid
A straightforward laptop line that had more size options than are available for either iPhones or iPads. I think they had six sizes at once going for a while? Two airs, three MBPs, one MB?
The fact that it's a separate "app" is what's bad. On any TV streaming device (Roku, AppleTV, Fire TV) has content right up front on the home screen.

XBOX's TV app also contains a lot of ads. And the apps load much slower.
Steve Jobs didn't pass away until the iPhone 4S' release. The iPhone 4 was leaked by being left in a bar the previous year. I wouldn't say leaks are any more or less an issue now than they were with him still at the helm.
Note that I am not suggesting they only go via Netflix, only that it also be an option. The content is the important bit, so providing it widely works. There is far less friction making it available via existing mechanisms in addition to direct.
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This really affected me the one day in the past 3 years that I forgot my phone in the morning... There was one site I had enabled 2FA (two factor authentication) on that I hadn't logged in from work yet, and it was really a pain not being able to access it.

Honestly, I've been pretty happy simply using LastPass (with a really long passphrase that I haven't shared with anyone) and generating more complex passwords for sites...

Just the same, not sure what the best answer is... Especially considering shared computers, portable devices and other devices which may get stolen or hacked.
Me too was not able to understand which product the video advertises.
i had this same experience in mountain view just two years ago; i think it was caused in part by my startup collapsing and my mind trying to make sense of what happened.

i had the same problem with being unable to sleep; the same sense of conversations and thoughts being unfocused. it was like tripping 24/7. i felt imbued with purpose and meaning; this life was a dream.

i was working at game closure (now weeby) at the time, and i thought the whole company was a front - what we were REALLY doing was putting together a team that was going to mars together. that explained why everything changed and the plans were always in flux - it wasn't really about building games; it was to see if we could work together and still get along while constantly being frustrated by plans that would be started and then dropped.

things were made worse by the fact that this was late 2012 and i really believed the whole "mayan apocalypse thing" was actually going to happen. something internal took over in early december - around the time things were "supposed" to go down, and it felt like i was living in a combination of snow crash, anathem, and "city at the end of time" - another sci-fi novel.

my mind was interpretting everything that happened around me as having meaning at 300 different layers. i could see contrails around people as they moved, as if i were able to see the multiverse unfolding around me. it was exciting and terrifying at the same time.

i tried telling people that i sensed something was wrong, but nobody was sure what to do. i kept telling people around me that there was an 'cacophany of mental imagery' - but i guess my ability to hold it together convinced people i was fine, until i wasn't.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8428418
Sure, what about the second version (coming , I guess, in about 7 months? ) Watch 2 ?
It's a ridiculous hack, but here is what I do on Android:

Wi-Fi Matic saves the cell tower info when I successfully connect to an accesspoint, and turns on my Wi-Fi when I enter that area again. When I'm there, Wi-Fi Web Login replays a script that logs in to the captive portal webpage.

Great for travelling.
No I don't think so, not one bit. I don't think we'll be able to sway eachother's opinions but thanks for the interesting convo :)
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Seriously, is autolayout actually used by a lot of people? I tried doing something semi-complex a few weeks back and I spent hours fighting with it. Then I spent 10 minutes writing 10 lines of code and it worked.

When you finally grok it, does it become worth it?
And I'm okay with that. Having transparent pricing means that I am voting with my dollars for the content I care about. With a cable subscription, most of your dollars just go to Disney and not the content producers whose content you are personally consuming.
Nope. Play Store in Canada still only lists the 5, 7, and 10(‽) as available Android devices. Obviously the 10 is out of stock, as it has been for about a year.

Amazon.ca only offers the 2013 device, although Staples Office Depot is promising to sell the 2014 device for $250 this month.
Qi is an open standard. I have several Qi chargers including one in the car. A proprietary charger doesn't help.
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piston powered airplanes run at full or nearly full power for extended periods.
I'm really excited by this, rethinkdb is awesome
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> They misinterpret this as a video series on "games that fail women and are therefore terrible", when she's just doing a series on "games that have these tropes."

Except that I don't think she's even doing that. She seems to take pains to avoid implicating any single game, and including so many references actually serves to blunt the criticism of each individual example. Instead, the message seems to be that the conventions of storytelling in interactive media have some deep, fundamental flaws. The entire medium, therefore, must change dramatically for these flaws to be addressed.

I can understand a reaction of "I like my games just like they are, thankyouverymuch" (though such a response obviously does not justify the behavior Ms. Sarkeesian has been subjected to). Speaking for myself, though, I enjoy games in spite of, not because of, these tropes, and I can't imagine that removing them would do anything other than make future games more enjoyable.
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I assume they don't show the price for internationalization reasons, but I do wish they had some way to see what it is in your country. Rather than just going to look at the Verge.
They have an excellent 404 page, see here: http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/foobar/
We're only looking at Windows Server for now
A single data point, but I get a noticeable bump in battery life when I run my QHD+ laptop display at half resolution.
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kudos to the akamai team for reporting the --nossl3 option issue in CVE-2014-3568.

really makes you wonder what else is lurking in openssl when options don't actually do what they say they do. as phk put it, openssl is the crown jewel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwcl17Q0bpk
The use case for our startup is: we have lots of compute and graphics intensive services being created and tested on Macs by developers, targeted for Linux Docker instances in the cloud. It would be nice to be able to run these same containers natively on OS X rather than requiring developers to bring up a local hypervisor (e.g. VirtualBox) and a local virtual Linux instance). This would help with both dev and test. Additionally, sometimes our engineers would like to be able to run compute jobs locally and merge the results back into the cloud based system.
I think the financials depend on the ratio of cable subscribers to cord cutters, and that ratio has been changing over time.
Agreed, and that was one of the recommendations in the report. AFAIK current commercial flight simulators aren't designed to accurately simulate the aircraft outside the normal flight envelope, so pilots can only simulate approach to stall, or a stall that might not accurately represent what will happen with an actual airplane, in contrast to the stall training you do in a light aircraft.
And glasses/contacts bring the humans with below average vision into the above average / perfect range.
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First of all, the battery life improvement with 720p vs 1080p is negligeable. Screen size and brightness matters more.

Second, there is such thing as a 'good enough' battery. For most people, this has been achieved with the current crop of big screen, high res phones.

Not sure why you think people would accept lower resolution for an extra half hour of battery life...
At UC Berkeley one of the classes (EECS150) focused on creating an old-school arcade game in an FPGA using (virtual) logic gates. It is one of the best classes I ever took and really gives you an understanding of how these things were possible. It seems impossible when you first see it, but by the end it all clicks and you realize how much is possible in pure silicon.
If you have to periodically throw away your reactor and buy a new one because of neutron damage that would be a positive thing for a company like Lockheed.
I don't know if a single wavelength monochrome image would look very good, especially if it were, say, blue, instead of red.

Creating the color images was a lot harder than we might imagine, in a world where Photoshop does CMYK separations at the click of a mouse. Since I'm old enough to remember the Viking landing, they first reported on TV when the first color pictures were processed that Mars had a blue sky just like Earth. However, this was quickly corrected once the color pictures were correctly calibrated. Of course, interestingly enough you can see blue in the Martian sky at dusk or dawn.
Another historic object of interest concerning the 'hype cycle' is Claude Shannon's 'Bandwagon': http://dsp.rice.edu/sites/dsp.rice.edu/files/shannon-bandwag...
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If anything, the market is oversaturated. Each brand is jumping on the bandwagon and offering nothing unique (and no, access to one proprietary media store over another is not unique). I am unfortunate enough to own more than one "cloud player". You know what this means? Media that can play in one room can't play in another. I have to choose between purchasing media from Amazon, iTunes, or Google because each company's device will exclude the others' content.

I don't understand the appeal of these devices anymore. They are so anti-consumer it's not even funny. Imagine if DVDs rented from Blockbuster would only play in Blockbuster-brand DVD players, while those from Hollywood video would only work in theirs.

In the end I settled on good old torrents and some weekly transcoding to mp4 on a powerful desktop which all of the players in my home are able to stream from, at least for now. Who knows what features future devices will gut.
I have no desire to layout everything in code (I know some people like this, I don't) so it's not very interesting to me. It would seem to require you to write your app in a completely different way. I wonder what debugging would be like with it, given that threaded code is always more painful. It might be more interesting once people release actual apps with it (outside of FB).
Thank you.

Our website (docker.com) and the Docker Hub (hub.docker.com), our hosted service, are managed directly by Docker employees and offer a better maintained and security-focused cipher suite than our blog.

Unfortunately, we are aware that the blog's SSL/TLS configuration is not ideal. It is on externally hosted infrastructure and we have been working with our service provider to rectify these issues. We have high expectations of the services we consume and will do what is necessary for the long-term security and confidence of our users.
Let's stop pretending that there were never any leaks on Steve's watch because it dovetails with our conclusions. Think Secret and Macrumors didn't just open up shop under Tim Cook.

edit: And let's stop pretending a lot of options in a key product is a revolution. Steve shipped the iPod Classic, Nano, Shuffle and Touch at the same time.

edit2: and let's stop pretending there were never any keynote hiccups under Steve "can everyone turn off their wifi?" Jobs
OK, so buy me a beer I will explain in person. Much simpler. I stand by my original comment, but this was never meant to be 'backed up' by any facts. Somewhere along this thread people are talking about conceal carry weapons, this is off topic. At least my comment had the merit of considering the topic at hand with a hypothetical scenario that got waaaay to much attention. I am always surprised by some reactions on HN, it makes for interesting discussions.
It is also a safe bet that the response to the original comment's response will be some guy saying how being hopeful about something is complete nonsense.

It's turtles all the way down. Guess we should just give up on Internet commenting. /s
The dude has consistently released the best Rails tutorial for free for years, I think it's permissible for him to ask for some imaginary internet currency to get exposure for the paid version that helps him pay the bills.
I realize this is probably only the case for me, but I've been looking for a 6-7" phone for reading comics on. A tablet is nice, but I find it a hassle to carry around in my bag. A 6-7" phone will fit in my pocket and I can easily pull it out in an elevator or waiting in line somewhere and read a page of my comic.

Maybe that's just me though.
A.K.A.: Nexus Q 2.0
This screen size is so, so disappointing. I'm an iphone 5s user and was eagerly awaiting the new Nexus to make the switch to Android. But 6" is a tablet that can make calls, not a phone. I WANT to switch to Android/Nexus for hundreds of reasons but this screen size is a deal break.

I need a phone I can use like... a phone.

I've tried the iphone 6 plus in person and it's a monstrosity to use, definitely not a one hand device. And the Nexus 6 is even larger?...

And I'm a man – I have pretty large hands. I can't imagine how it must feel in my wife (or many other women)'s hands.

This needs to stop.
Top of the line is 32GB and costs $600? That's not just a bit dissapointing. How much can another 32GB of flash storage cost at OEM prices, $10? And no, I don't want to store everything on your servers, Google.
Appreciate the honest feedback. Time will tell if our investment in this video was a good idea or not. The purpose of it is to get people interested in the service, mainly on an emotional level, so that they will install the extension.

Once installed, we direct users to a tutorial video, that goes over the features much more clearly. Here's a direct link to it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhaWEs5ckDM

The video would normally be viewed from our home page http://agora.sh so there would likely be more context.
How about you compare the laptop lineup with its own industry?
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And yet, a photo is more "there" on a working 720p screen than it is on a 1080p screen with a dead battery...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_naval_reactors#m...
He's obviously using the colloquial definition of the word "scam", namely "a completely legal and ethical enterprise with a business model that I, personally, disapprove of".
Nick is right. Our default answer will be to use Go to be consistent with the rest of the Docker project. But we'll use whatever language is right for that part of the project.
Ebola isn't spread in a respiratory manner. Unless he took some bodily fluids and rubbed them into a mucus membrane/cut of another person, no need for more fear-mongering.
If I buy a larger phone, I'm giving up ergonomics in exchange for something I personally don't need or want.
Steam is a pretty nice place to buy games, I didn't know they sold anything else though. Thanks for the tip!
Why do we care about this? She's been proven to be full of crap, so who cares if she isn't speaking? (I'm not saying that threats are acceptable in any fashion)
> many people complaining about these large sizes are just complaining that they can't use their new phone in exactly the same way as their old one.

I don't care what i can and can't use the phone for (to reasonable extents), i care about the constraints it adds to the rest of my life. If it can't fit in my pocket everything else i do that does not involve the phone just suffers (yes, some things in life actually still happen outside the phone).
I'm really excited about this 3rd edition of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial, which is a huge update touching every chapter in the book (and adding an all-new chapter as well). I'm planning on hanging out at Hacker News for a bit post-launch, so let me know if you have any questions and I'll do my best to answer them.
Fantastic, Michael. I can't overstate how much the book has affected my professional career. I'm recommending it to anyone who wants to get started with web dev. Thank you!
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How are Netflix, Prime, and even HBO different? You pay them for access to all of the content they decide to carry. I don't see how Netflix is "a la carte."
Using the N5 I already have a problem distinguishing the top from the bottom at a glance. I'm sure with the new design this will be much more than a minor nuisance.
Ask HN: Your experience with companies not responding to applications?
I began looking for a software job earlier this year and came away with a few frustrations, one of which was the fact that many companies either never responded to my application or initial contact, or fell out of contact. In one case I exchanged several emails, completed a dev exercise, and then never heard back even after a few follow-up emails. I wonder how endemic this is to our industry? Is this confined to first-time devs? I’m a remote worker, so is this a casualty of that choice?

Anecdotally, this is what I’ve found:

- Hacker News: 100% of the emails I’ve sent responding to job posts on “who’s hiring” have led to a response by someone at the company.

- If a job post requests that I send a personal email, I am very likely to receive a response

- If a job post requests that I submit some formal application, I am very unlikely to receive a response or that response takes a very long time (2 weeks or more)

I’m interested to know what others’ experience has been. As I’m starting a new job search I feel myself handicapping companies based on how their job process is posted: if it’s on HN I’ll apply there first; if I’m required to fill out a form, I’ll only apply there after my other avenues have been exhausted. I’m not sure that’s a healthy practice or if that is actually a good way to preemptively avoid stress and frustration.

Thanks in advance!