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Rubygems.org is down
I indeed need multiple containers to share the same gpu. :(
How about just changing the signup process to "send us an email from your email address" and then you receive a reply with the further instructions/link? It would make it impossible to discover whether a user has signed up without gaining access to his/her email account. You could easily make this more abuse-resistant (and reduce the inevitable spam) by generating a temporary session ID and embedding it into the subject of the mailto: link, or even use temporary email addresses to receive registrtion requests.
Yeah, we will have better human welfare if we become a huge homogenized mass. The evidence of better human welfare will be, why better economic output. Because that's what welfare means: all the cogs meshing together and cranking it out.

Out of this homogenized mass will emerge innovation, supposedly. I suppose it will have to, just to beat the stupefying boredom. Of course, it will be frowned upon. "Just what the heck do you think you're doing there with that innovation of yours? You wouldn't happen to be trying to start a new kind of geographically-identifiable behavior around your invention? Dare I say... culture? You know that is forbidden!"

By the way, English is the most spoken language? Not really; it's probably the most badly abused language, for the purposes of global trade. You have to look at other measures, like for how many is it their mother language. In how many places is new English-language literature being produced (not only business documents like purchase orders). A halfway meaningful count might be: how many moms sing English lullabies to their children.

You know, in most places, people guard their language and culture very jealously. The use of another language by a few people who have jobs with international ties doesn't constitute any evidence that their region is converting to another culture.
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Dextro - Senior Distributed Systems Engineer (NYC full-time)

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// What we do

Dextro is a venture-backed AI-as-a-service company building an API that makes it easy for developers to search, filter, and gather actionable statistics over photo and video datasets — without knowing any computer vision or machine learning. Our technology powers the next generation of vision-enabled apps, robots, smart devices, and data analytics tools.

// Who we are

We are a small, highly technical team of vision engineers and researchers from the UPenn GRASP Lab, IIT Delhi, Microsoft, and iRobot. Python, CUDA, C++, and Ruby are our core languages. We have 10^~14 FLOPS of compute on-site regularly being maxed out by experiments and performance testing.

// Who you are

This is primarily a distributed systems and web services developer role but you will have computer vision responsibilities. Though we expect significant backend dev experience, you will learn the vision that you need on the job.

// More information

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You can set up multiple DNS providers before the DDOS attack begins.
Great answer! Thank you. Since you seem to really have thought about this: what would be the way we would have to know that Superintelligence had been achieved?

I can imagine a situation where someone suspects that one of these projects listed above is "superintelligent". What would be the test of that?
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Not at all, but typically languages that support reflection are slower for very difficult to escape reasons. Chief among these is that such languages are dynamic, making every function call an indirection (load/call). This forces a CPU pipeline flush for each function call, etc. It's theoretically possible to get around this with very smart JITs, but it's very difficult and depending on how dynamic the language is and how these semantics are used it can have severe limitations.
I did the same thing last week. We used a rotating telescope with a dslr on the end. We also had a little gizmo that tracked arbitrary moving objects in the night sky and told the telescope which direction to move so as to keep the moving object in the same place.

Using 5-10 minute exposures, we were able to take the same kind of colorful astronomical pictures you would expect to see in NatGeo. It was truly amazing. You really don't pick up on the beautiful colours of the stars with the human eye.
> 1) Don't use Twitter for having long conversations and public fights. Just don't. No good will come out of it.

I encourage you to read the twitter exchange I linked to. It predates all of this, and is not at all a fight. On the contrary it is a constructive exchange and I am using it to assert Docker's philosophy in a positive way

> Vis-a-vis "just compete!". How do you see this "competing" happening without an announcement like this. "We have created X container thingy"? Ok, isn't it smart to compare to an existing container "thingy" right of the bat?

Surely it's possible to launch a competing tool without resorting to a press campaign like this one: http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/01/coreos-calls-docker-fundame...

> Imagine they didn't mention Docker. I can see you writing about "stealing of ideas", "lies", "not being straight-forward", "this is just a Docker clone by they don't mention Docker so they are being shady" and so on.

No, I would definitely not say that.
personally, I think the long term value of Rocket is not about Rocket -- its about the ACI specification for the formats of containers.

Right now I'm already taking a Dockerfile, exporting it to a tar, and then running systemd-nspawn -- I love Dockerfiles, I love being able to grab a postgres server and get it up quickly from Docker Hub, but I didn't need or want the rest of docker.

If both Docker and Rocket support ACI, then you have a composable image layer, and that means people aren't locked into either ecosystem just to build images of their applications.

ACI :: Docker-tar-format to me is like QCOW2 :: VMDK. Wouldn't it be cool if projects like Packer[1] didn't have to exist, because the image format of Virtual Machines was open and documented as an independent standard?

[1] - https://www.packer.io/
It's too bad feynman didn't teach him how to tell a story.
A person with addictive tendencies can be addicted to anything.

http://www.tlc.com/tv-shows/my-strange-addiction
To the OP, this is top-notch advice.
In my opinion, the certs are valuable but it's easy to get a bit overwhelmed by it and overdo them (also many of them require experience but I'm sure the company you have a part-time job in can vouch for your experience if you continue with them. I'd advise you to take the more vendor-neutral ones like CompTIA.

As the poster above said, and I cannot emphasize as much, networking is incredibly important so be professional with your work relationships and increase your connections as much as you can.

You may not be able to get pass the degree-wall of big companies like Google (although they are beginning to hire degree-less candidates now) - but that doesn't mean that consolidating your experiences and whacking up a great resume and throwing yourself out there will land you any less of a satisfying job - the clever employers know to look past the worth of pieces of paper acknowledging that you're capable of regurgitating information.

Good luck with what you decide anyhow.
Docker and CoreOS are in a pre-monetization land grab for a single market.

They've so far been approaching it from opposing corners, but CoreOS just made the first play at the opponent's territory, and it apparently rattled Docker a bit.

I am excited to have more viewpoints in play.
That's what most white collar jobs are ("cadre").

They do come with a more favourable termination notice and retirement plan as well so it's not all bad.
Perhaps 2 of those 3 languages had the purpose to be the best general purpose language, at least for the JVM, but it's a stretch to say the same for Groovy. After the first three yrs of its existence, it's primarily been a business venture with 2 competing conflicting business purposes:

* to buttress one particular piece of software (i.e. Grails) so its project manager can spin a buck selling consulting and conference seats, flipping companies (twice), and take over control of bundled software (i.e. Spring if he hasn't already)

* to keep another project manager in employment by using the Groovy brand to promote himself, diluting control from the technical lead by employing another more compliant programmer, duplicating the functionality of 3rd party addons like Groovy++, setting up a personal website and subscription list to take product control away from Codehaus, etc

Only to the extent Groovy satisfies these purposes does it try to be the best language.
What happens when you try to sign up the world
I'm sceptical. There've been a couple of Wifi-based local ISPs who went bankrupt where I live (in Austria).
When we arrive at one homogeneous culture, who do we emulate to improve ourselves? How can we be sure that of two competing ideas, one is better?

Competition and contrast between cultures is what enables us to improve. The world wants to copy Silicon Valley, but during its inception it was (and to some extent, it still is) a highly iconoclastic culture.

We can not engineer an ideal society by picking and choosing aspects of different cultures, homogenizing them, and implementing it globally. It will be imperfect -- and we will have no way to improve.
This is a very good thought, and something I hadn't tried yet... Mostly due to the sporadic functionality of the issue. I'll give this a go tonight; thank you.
What I would like to see disappear is the belief that traditions, languages and customs have an intrinsic value and must be preserved. Some languages are only spoken by one person: let them die already. Is your terrible local folklore and music being forgotten? Great!

Edit: It was humbling how Asimov put it in the Foundation saga. In just a few thousands years, memory of Earth had been lost.
http://marxi.co/ seems pretty useful.
DNSimple 3+ Hour (Continuing) Major Outage (RubyGems, EasyPost, Travis-Ci)
A sexually transmitted disease with a 100% mortality rate.
I would suggest finding people on twitter who fit the typical user and mention it? I did that, posted about it on my blog and a few other things, not sure really what actually got me going, but I did get some downloads that route. If it's a good app hopefully those people will share it, I would recommend including a "share this app" link within the app
This is a amazingly US-centric essay, and sadly, one that lacks much substance (for the type of claims it's making). There wasn't anything to back up the claim, except the one example on calendar (which pretty much is NOT culture).

Firstly, a quick fact-checking: depends on how you do your survey, English might not be the most used spoken language in the world, and in some cases, not even close. There are somewhere potentially around 1-1.2 billions Mandarin speakers. And if I'm not mistaken, there are around 800-1billions English speakers in the world.

I'd also like to note that your main thesis is a hypothesis at best, and definitely not an "important truth". Not yet, as of today anyway.

Culture existed for a reason. It was not entirely historical accident that the Eastern and Western culture was different (I believe it's partly due to the farming method at the start of agriculture). With that in mind, it's only possible to have a mono culture if the living situation everywhere on Earth is the same. And until we can actually do terraforming, I don't see it happening. (After terraforming? I'd rather not guess). Remember the picture of the worldmap that note half of the world is living in a circle [0]? Even something as simple as most of South-East Asia living in cities would make a drastic different culture than sub-urban America.

I've been thinking about culture and social norms, my conclusion was that they exist as a way to make dealing with other human easier: we human if left alone all have different preferences in too many things. And if as a group, everyone has to guess how everyone else want things to be done, it just take too much effort. That's also why I think when the group is small enough, or if it's a 1-on-1 situation, social norms don't mean much.

Since human ourselves is extremely unlikely to suddenly become homogeneous (5000 years from now, if we a group of human randomly, half of them will probably still put the toilet paper roll differently than the other half), it's more likely that there will be even more culture than the past, not less. If once culture were limited by physical distance, that won't be an issue in the future.

It's more likely than not I'm similar to thinking and belief of other HN-ers than my fellow countrymen - and likewise for other HN-ers.

Finally, efficiency isn't the only goal to be optimized for human/ society. I'm not even sure if that's the main goal or not. Likewise for happiness - we're not all utilitarian, are we?

[0]: http://io9.com/more-than-half-of-the-worlds-population-lives...
I would say that fighting corruption is the opposite approach to getting things done politically.
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And Bayesian is a form of ethnocentrism... one that presumes that materialism and induction are superior, or at least inevitable, paths to knowledge and truth.

Bayesian thought also presumes clear criteria for comparing outcomes, or at least suitable heuristics that meet the same ends. Real life is much more complex and every individual, at least to some degree, is responsible for judging right from wrong, determining efficient from inefficient, and even applying meaning to continuous reality (as opposed to discrete experiments).

> ...Bayesianism allows us to resolve the tension in Enlightenment humanism...

Sure. Again, if you assume a materialist philosophy. But there are philosophies that are inherently at odds with that worldview, including philosophies that are inherently incompatible with the form of Bayesianism you're describing here. So maybe there's a Gordian knot that has been cut here, but it's not the only Gordian knot by any means.
DbVisualizer has a similar feature, and works as well on a Mac as the Win and Linux versions - subject to occasional issues common to the JRE on your machine.

http://www.dbvis.com/
I have been living in Austin for roughly 4 years, but after checking the map it looks like my area may not get fiber for some years to come, as well as much of the greater Austin city limits, based off the progress I see from Google's initial Kansas rollout.

The one thing I hope that comes out of this, and the one thing I believe will benefit all Austin residents, would be the ability to negotiate for a lower monthly rate when their Internet/Cable contract renews sometime next year.

I hope that by April 2015 I have the leverage to call TWC and say: "Hey, Google fiber is offering Gigabit + TV for $130 a month, why can't my $155 monthly bill be lowered considering I pay for Internet + TV that is only 1/4 as fast?"
Ztadmin: scriptable interface to ZeroTier One's hosted network API
Well-deserved. Tobi is one of the most impressive CEOs I've ever interacted with.
Hmm, I played around with CoreOS for the past weeks, it was nice, I'm getting the hang of it. What is constantly difficult though is that there is no cross linking of containers (mysql database accessible from user@172.ip.add.r while the Nginx/PHP-fpm docker is looking for a specific mysql ip addr). Restarting containers from images changes both IPs. Not handy. Why not always share a common /etc/hosts with all current containers (given name with current ip addr) in them?

I was also having some issues with php5-fpm in a docker, it doesn't seem designed for it (it gets the file paths communicated from Nginx, not the files so dockers need to sync files)

Somehow I though CoreOS and Docker would be figuring this out together. I hope somehow that the knowledge I now have will remain relevant, I was planning a hosting service for sports clubs based on drupal8.

Ah well, we are at the beginning of an era, I should have expected this. I'm very curious, who knows, the container space is far from filled, we'll be seeing many distros. There will be Gentoo's, there will be Ubuntu's. It's going to be nice.
People have been looking into 'life extension' for at least 10,000 years.

It's a hard problem and despite what snake oil salesman say we are unlikely to make real progress in the next 100 years.

PS: Drugs for example are a completely useless approach long term. (Short term gains might be possible though.) Realistically we would need to disassemble someone without killing them or do the equivelent without taking them apart which is probably harder.
My +1 goes to Kelsey Hightower. He posted on 7 Nov some worries which many Docker users and contributors, already had since the past year, when you dropped off LXC containers, instead of working together with https://linuxcontainers.org/ project to get a better code. That seems already a strategic business decision to decouple your "product value" from his mother and generator: LXC. IMO, Docker's 'new' direction completely ignored the tremendous amount of support they had from the sysadmin and devops communities.
Vision:Empower society to create cityclouds of people to collaborate in new ways
Ask HN: How do I build and grow human network?
A bit of background and little rant. Apology in advance !

I am 29 and have little or no network at all. I know this may sound unbelievable but its true. I moved to US around 7 years back.

I have long forgotten people from school and college. Many were furious with me since I was really good in academics and maintained high ranks.

Then I joined small company where I could not make any long time friends. Only few people were known to me. But , not someone I could call for weekend fun trip.
I have been staying alone in US. My first job I worked on was big team but, again not so good people ( terrible hygiene, attitude and trying to get rid of always ! )
Current job , again not someone I could call and discuss idea occurred to me.

1. I am a bit shy. It is occurring to me I really don't know how to spark conversation ?

2. I don't know if physical appearance matter? I maintain very good hygiene, dress appropriately but I'm little fat.

3. I deleted facebook because if sad feeling it was creating ( I admit it ! )

I posted this question to reddit but someone always comments on read "How to win friends and influence people". I did that but that did not help.

I usually keep to myself , stay alone but I have really experienced downside of it. I really need to know and learn human connections and my human network. It may be little late but I believe in starting at some point. I also understand that network is value proposition so I need to present something of value to have people in my network.

What are your thoughts, suggestions, books, IRL tricks, tactics to build and grow your network ?

I find many good advice on HN so any help is appreciated.

Keep rocking !
If your company has a PCI environment, i'm not that worried (you probably have a pretty good idea of what you are doing, at least in theory), but most startups do not have this, as far as I know. Most just want to get a product/service out of the door. This is where I get worried :-)

It is very easy to setup a system in a corner (here, we'll install this piece of software, that will save us the 99$/month recurly subscription...) then forget about it until it is too late...

Some guidance would be very important, as well as mentioning ways to make it more secure, including tokenization, logging of CC numbers in server logs, knowing if the data transits through your server or not depending on provider, maybe even keep the software behind a a firewall without internet access, these can make a big difference in managing the risk.

As an open source project, you cannot be held responsible on what the people using the software is doing, but I think making sure that they understand that even if the software is free and easy to install and use, that additional work is required to make sure that the data is safe.
> I'd also like to note that your main thesis is a hypothesis at best, and definitely not an "important truth". Not yet, as of today anyway.

Given the parameters of Thiel's question, any good answer is generally a hypothesis and not a definitive proof. Though I suppose a patented solution to the travelling salesman problem would get your company funded.
I'm not a music-making-guy, so I ask out of curiosity — do current electronic keyboards have selectable temperaments?