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He said "time to put everything on Docker and Puppet" - there are a few ways to understand it. Puppet could be used to only manage containers, or it could be used to deploy bare app containers and configure them. Docker work required would be different depending on where runtime and when prepare-time configs end, but it ties in with all of the points in my opinion and so I don't think it was pointless. If it's a part of a stable setup - that's great.

(especially stuff like logging, backups, monitoring will usually affect your docker build to some degree and can be reused in other apps)
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Kenya has pretty good rates for prepaid data, approx 1 US cent per MB if you buy a 500Mb bundle:

http://www.safaricom.co.ke/personal/internet/data-plans/prep...

500KSH for the 500Mb bundle, current FX rate is 90KSH/USD. Even the smallest bundle, 4Mb, is hardly more expensive per MD, at only 5 KSH (5.6 cents).

Are these prices unrepresentative of other African countries?
Probably because others are too eager to fill out the results via an online search than from your history, and I doubt if that is because they have your best interests at heart.
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Don't know about the rest of Africa, but in Cape Verde I was paying 15 euros for 5 gigabytes of 3G bandwidth. I was buying two of those cards per month on average, which was on par with an internet bill in the US or in Europe.
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There are numerous drugs which make people feel subjectively happy by changing the way their mind works, however from the outsider perspective the outcome is hardly desirable.

People are inherently irrational just like the nature itself. It is possible to predict the probable outcome using mathematical models here and there, but the solution is always local and temporary.
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It's comments like this that make removing the down vote look silly.
I wanted to post on ShowHN but people won't be able to use it for a couple of weeks. So I chose not to, if you have any questions please let me know :)
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Lithuanian goverment planning to track it's own citizens' online activity
MS Azure: Incident 114111112017049
Hi
Before describing my problem, i would like Mr Satya Nadella to know about my issue since he is from India and he might consider getting involved and come with a real solution. This is a global problem for people from third world countries.
We can not do international transactions using locally issued cards due to national Financial restrictions. For that reason we are using services such as Payoneer to overcome the handicap. I need to get my hand on Miccrosft technologies such as Azure like many other folks around from coutnries like mine. Let me know what our government needs to do for us in order to be able to get that Microsoft Azure subsription. Kindly consider forward my request to whom ever it concerns.
And now for my problem here is it, but please no generic answers like "Please use a credit card in order to sign up for MS Azure", i'm not a US Citizen.

I'm trying to sign up for the trial offer of Azure using my payoneer card. My bank shows me a $1 pending charge and the sign up form display the following error:
We can't authorize the payment method. Please make sure the information is correct, or use another payment method. If you continue to get this message, please contact your financial institution.
Error code: 30225-77XlPgAAAAAAAAAA-a5d136b7-7330-434f-ba9b-c2f4605046d2
I'll post this to Reddit and Hacker News
I suspect this is like duck typing with some verification before compilation : the compiler checks that the object sent as parameter implements the correct interface.
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I can't believe that fallacy got around. It's oxymoronic, it is just like the sentence "non-swimming fish moves around in your filled aquarium."
You can assume at this point that any significant communications network like this has traffic recorded by at least FVEY and probably other agencies too. They could probably intercept traffic leaving ground stations, even if the company didn't want them to.

If that's important to you (say you're a lawyer, accountant, doctor, business, politician, judge, journalist etc ;), you'd be better to use encryption than worry about the network layer which you have no control over.
Hats off to the team who made this work with the available power budget, considering the spacecraft was not really designed to go out that far away from the sun.

Both Rosetta and Philae would have been an excellent use case for nuclear batteries, which would have allowed the lander to send data back for decades. Granted, most of the science data can probably be gathered within the window we have now, but it would have been nice to have a longer-term sensor up there.
There were much more issues than Obamacare for this election. Most of them with one underlying topic - gross incompetence of the federal government which managed to mess up multiple times both locally and abroad. Of course, since Democrats are holding the presidency and half of the Congress, they are held responsible for this. Obamacare is a part of it - the law was full of bugs and nonsense like 1099 provisions, its implementation was the regular disaster and as always, it was massively oversold, underdelivered and took more money and produced less useful effects and more unexpected conseqences then planned. But this is the way of Big Government and Obamacare is only one instance of it. Of course, Republicans used all the instances against the party holding the presidency - that's what opposition does. That's the only way to have a measure of accountability there.
i'm guessing the footnote to that comment is something like "this is how i feel, therefore this is how everyone feels".
Good lord I think their error page just burned a few of my braincells!

https://i.imgy.org/df/9e/bop-500-error.png
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Here's a thought. Why not get the multi-non-nationals to pay more than 3% company tax?
Best of luck to everyone involved, your work on Rubinius is extremely important to foster competition and improvements in everything Ruby.
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What is “sensible” or not is extremely subjective. If you propose that your standards should apply, you are effectively proposing to become a dictator.

Also: If technology improves over time, and cool technology increases willingness to give up personal privacy, we have a bit of a situation brewing:

http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=3370#comic
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Yes, even people like that should be treated well. As soon as you say "actually, %&!^ it, they're worthless, it doesn't matter what we do to that piece of inhuman trash", regardless of what happens to them, it affects you. Treating people well when they're in custody is as much about making sure police officers don't have to feel that they're terrible people as it is about treating the criminal like a human being.

If you want to live in a safe, well-balanced, equal society then you simply can't have anyone who isn't treated as well as possible. The measure of a civilised society is not how well it treats the best people, but how well it treats the worst.
Read the article. Updating the Knowledge is exactly what they do when businesses open and close.
It's a photo from the shop's site. Probably lifted from Nike. The actual product could be way worse.
I have switched to Hangouts instead.
It only misses interoperability with similar services like Skype (one can dream).
Binary sizes are a concern, particularly with a move to mobile devices and later embedded systems.

However for Go's current platforms, I would call it a non-issue. Static builds, something seemingly long forgotten though supported in other compiled languages, make deployment and distribution that bit easier.

I would support static builds by default, optional dynamic builds.
Sure. I write software that automates things, specifically natural language processing.
The New Yorker's piece on civil forfeiture published last year, "Taken", is also excellent and also prompted a lot of comments on Hacker News.

The article: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/08/12/taken?currentPa...
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6161465
I wrote a little bash script to allow for the sending of iMessages and made a little API in Node so I could send service status messages across all my devices easily.

It's probably not possible to do this in pure Node but if it's of interest here is the gist:
https://gist.github.com/roldershaw/7311547

Now I can see iMessage chatbots being made :P
Go is an average language but it's a solid product.

The tooling is excellent. A lot of thougt has been put into making things simple. From the folder structure to the final binary, everything is smooth.

It's just a shame that the language design itself is quite behind the times. Older languages had a lot to offer to a new one. The day it launched it was already old. And I don't see a lot of goodwill to change the language to fill the glaring omissions.

Python in this respect is quite an example : iterators, generators, ABC were carefully added without making any less approachable. It prooves it is possible, but that the kind of things the Go leaders apparently simply don't consider.
Yeah, the job description of food production fits nicely with the post about bullshits jobs from a couple of days ago. I am assuming you are using the same definition here.

EDIT: on top of that, you could argue that Agriculture is bullshit since most of the food we produce is thrown away?
> Because of the implicit thing!

Known as structural typing and available in most modern languages.
And here is why these functional langauges will never make main stream.

I've, been programming for 20+ years and I look at that code and say what the f*k?

Ooh, it's the functional stuff. Ok, move on.
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Like so many other things it depends on the particular hardware, but basically most will work with a bit of hacking. The Arch Linux wiki is probably the most up to date source of instructions and workaround.

A third option is to use crouton to install and run Linux in a chroot under Chrome OS
20 seconds for about 5000 unit tests and 5 minutes for full suite of integration/end to end tests.
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Related: do someone around here know a tool for automatic or assisted reverse engineering? I sometimes work on reverse engineering and something that could help me make sense of it would be greatly appreciated.
It would also be good if it show how much English is required for the job. Great work btw!
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You could probably do this with node-applescript[0].

EDIT: ...which appears to be a simple wrapper around osascript.

[0]: https://github.com/TooTallNate/node-applescript
700 sats at 250 pounds each isn't "spare capacity".
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The terrible thing is that this is not standardized, so every codebase ends up with a slightly different version of what [ means.
And if such behaviour was ever found, the gas chamber ate another person. The Nazi government did not take well to dissenters, especially among the armed forces.
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That's what the reviews are for I imagine
That's cool, I've never seen anyone recommend The Hydrogen Sonata so left it to last, along with Inversions.

For all the fixation on his comment about American Libertarianism, Banks's politics seem fairly standard post-Thatcher Scottish to me. After what that PM did to Scottish communities many Scots apparently feel they have little in common with the direction English conservatives are taking the UK.

Banks was a supporter of Independence and famously cut up his British Passport and sent it to Downing Street in protest of the Iraq invasion.

IMO you can see his politics all over the Culture; from the entire tragedy of Look To Windward to the wee things.
Thanks for the link, I hadn't seen that. I have two reactions.

Firstly, I find his example contrived. He wants to determine the accuracy of a black box by subtly tweaking how floating-point operations spread throughout that black box behave? It seems like an okay hook for ad-hoc debugging -- if those flags are around anyway -- but as the primary rationale for the entire rounding mode mechanism? That's not a lot of bang for a whole lot of complexity.

Secondly, this is exactly the kind of discussion around rationales and use cases I'm looking for. Even if I don't buy his solution the problem still stands and might be solvable some other way, for instance through better control over external dependencies. Maybe something like newspeak's modules-as-objects and hierarchy inheritance mechanisms could be applied here.
It would be really cool if they posted the site photos and also photos of the actual product.

EDIT: also, got the drugs tested and posted those results.
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Genuine question: I'm seeing a lot of innovation coming from Node.js projects, some of them useful, some of them not, but even though when not, they're really creative.

I'm new to programing and I'm wondering if this happened in the past for other technologies when they were released. Did they reached the same spectrum?

Best regards.
It's called structural typing.
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Question: Assuming the UN, an individual state or private donors want to support economic development in underdeveloped states with poor infrastructure, would funding free or very cheap internet access be useful?

One of the problems with badly run, weak and/or underfunded governments is lack of infrastructure. Mobile access arrived before rads, sewage or mains electricity in places because of the easier infrastructure that depends less on these things.

Is this that kind of a thing?
Like what? The standard library is no more special, other than where it resides in the filesystem. You can write C and assembly code as well and link it to your Go code. And I'm not talking about cgo, I mean [568][ac], the Plan 9 C compiler and assembler that come with Go.
Yip, unit tests are like lightening. Integration tests cause the bloat. We cut a significant amount of time off by using https://github.com/grosser/parallel_tests
Probably not, but there are plenty of potential neurological illnesses, so if you feel that you're having memory problems you should definitely take time to see a doctor. They'd likely start with blood tests and some cognitive tests, and if they agree there are problematic results, they'd probably order an MRI, CT, or PET scan, or a combination of them.

When it comes to Alzheimer's specifically, less than 10% of cases are early-onset (where it is diagnosed before 65), and it's very rare for it to be diagnosed under the age of 50. My mother was diagnosed with it at 53, and there weren't really any symptoms until she hit 50. She was 52 when she had to stop working, and even then her doctors weren't willing to conclusively diagnose Alzheimer's until the next year. She passed away this year, about a week after her 62nd birthday.
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Most providers, like CDNify (I may be somewhat biased as I work for them), integrate with plugins like these, plus both the plugins I mentioned are completely free!

Hope this helps :)
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Nice assumptions dude. I guess this is the internet for ya; post something that is not even very controversial, and your own caricatured projection is jumped on.

On your other note, it is not bullshit as long as it is sustainable and people are being fed. If it was, you bet it'd be fixed, one way or the other, up to, including, and beyond cannibalism to genetic re-engineering not to need food.

On the other hand, there is your typical TechCrunch startup lol.

Don't even bother replying. It seems we are so different in how in touch we are, I could be locked in an internetless and lightless room with no outside communication for the rest of my life, and still be able to do non bullshit work, which I'd scratch into the walls with my fingernails, so when I die and they open the box to take me out they (at least the in-touch ones) will be awed and the world will be a better place, while you could be handed the US presidency, or the leadership of a multi-national corporation, and still cock it up by starving the population and workers to death by removing "bullshit jobs" lol.
Unless you really only need 30MB or less, you're better off getting the 200MB prepaid package for €2.9, which isn't nearly as bad in €/MB.
I didn't dismiss it. My point is that theorizing over whether money leads to happiness doesn't take into account the absence of money acting as an obstacle to happiness. The heuristic is psychologically leading in that it does not make the distinction of what happiness is. Happiness can be relatively defined from personal experience. In order to analyze this any further, I'd have to examine the studies to see how the definition and interpretation of happiness is controlled.
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Surely you mean kB/s, not kBps. Nobody uses kBps because it's misleading. The question always boils down to kB/s vs. kbps. In this respect, your parent also unfortunately used kb/s, which is also a misleading and confusing unit.

People really should be using only kB/s and baud.
The "systems" in the term "systems language" the Go team used shortly after initially releasing Go refers to systems like Google has them running.
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1c/MB is a huge price even for me in a western country. For me, it's between $1k and $2k a month!

For Africans the cost is even higher.
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> If you need a purpose in life, get children.

Adding a couple more consumers into the sea of billions is more valuable than dedicating your life to science or art?
If only people would not willfully ignore the implicit "at Google" or "for Google" that a lot of things said about Go carry. Go may be a terrible language from the PLT POV, but it's meant to solve problems Google has.
What they provide is something that would make sense in Analytics. So who knows, maybe some day Google will annound Customer Analytics as a part of Google Analytics... For free!

It's not like they would be starting from scratch.
> The Techempower benchmarks are using the old version of GHC, 7.6

7.4, last time I checked.
Why aren't satellite fleets a solution to the back-haul problem?
Prompted by this post I tried to run my latest Rails 4.1 app with Rubinius. It's been a long time since I wished to give it a try.

I had to comment out some gems which don't work with Rubinius, all stuff I use only in development (byebug, binding_of_caller, did_you_mean). There is a Rubinius debugger but I didn't try it http://rubini.us/doc/en/tools/debugger/

I had to remove the space after the arrow in lamba definitions like -> ()

Then I run rake spec. I bumped into a few show stoppers here.

One is due to some compatibility issues with the mail gem. There is an open issue on GitHub about that and it should be fixed in the gem. In general, if gems don't support Rubinius reliably we can't use it. And if we can't use it many gems won't have an incentive of testing against it.

The second one is that I got an overall feeling that Rubinius is slow. The examples include many integration tests with capybara and the js driver. Rubinius runs them in 7 minutes and 13 seconds (with spring) without the ones that failed. RMI 2.1.4 runs them in 1' 54" (all examples green). Maybe it's slow only for this kind of workload but such a difference in testing is hardly bearable. Too bad.
> The difference between their satellites and others in use would be the size of the fleet .. and the size of the satellites, which would be much smaller than those currently used for communications.

Pretty sure we're looking at satellites far far smaller than 250 pounds if this is going to work.
You probably wouldn't use nearly as much data if the speeds were only 2G/3G.
I remember reading somewhere that Google announced that they're now stopping using emails in Apps for Business and Apps for Education for building ad targeting profiles.

Very surprising to know that the paid Google Apps for Business were also being used that way, but this being primarily an ad company, not surprised that they were making misleading and false statements to the public on their web site until they were compelled to explain in federal court, where apparently they couldn't continue lying under the threat of heavy fines or jail time. Only Google knows what other data is being used to track people for showing ads.

I doubt many people are aware that their Android phone's location might be being tracked for monetizing ads.

http://www.datadrivenbusiness.com/google-quietly-testing-off...

I am debating getting a Nest, but all this makes me queasy.
> Saying more cameras prevent crime is like saying more logging reduces your attack surface. Let's just ditch firewalls and add kernel dumps everywhere instead.

What if your firewalls cost each about £30,000/yr (plus benefits), have only 40 hours weekly uptime, and you need like a bunch of them around in the city all the time for this to work at all?
London Black cabs are overpriced, and there's no market check that stabilises price, as much as I respect the institution of "The Knowledge", you are still bound by the need to trust your driver, and many are just opportunistic.

The Knowledge may make for better navigation, but as a customer, the amount of times it actually comes in useful (road works, accident, awkward route) is very low, 90% of journeys are straightforward.

It certainly doesn't justify the 50%-100% price increase for the privilege of hailing the cab on the street vs. by pre-booking, especially when most of the time the route you are taking is short (no Londoner in their right mind would use a black cab for a long journey, unless they have money to squander or it's so late at night that you're desperate)

The likelihood of getting any real value out of the knowledge when taking a cab in London is very low, and the fact I need to pay for idling in traffic with an un-capped fare potential on top of jacked rates just makes for a terrible proposition.

As a consumer, there's just no value in that, and Black Cabs need to evolve or compete themselves back into relevance, bring on Uber, Lyft, Wheel and any other newcomers.

Source: 14 years of being a grumpy Londoner.
is the facebook integration strictly necessary? Does it work without?
That bundle price in Kenya is pretty good by African Standards, but I do not think its representative. And even if it is, the masses do not have 5$ to put towards data bundles (bare in mind that they also have to buy airtime bundles just to use voice and SMS), so they end up paying the out-of-bundle data rates, which are about 20 times higher than the in-bundle rates.
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There's now also the official Javascript for Automation[1], however I'm not sure how much that ties in with node.

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/releasenotes/Interap...
In other words, plea bargaining.