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Well sure. 5 1/4" floppies have been taken away by technological changes. There are almost certainly file formats that are unreadable without some serious archeology.

The technology required to listen to a record is stone-age simple compared to even a magnetic cassette, though, let alone a digitally compressed .mp3.

The point being that if you own a hard copy of media, that media can always be read (if the hard copy is still viable), given the right technology. If you own a license to stream a piece of media, as soon as that industry actor goes belly up so does your license.

Given vinyl records last longer (when properly cared for in an archival setting) than a hard drive or magnetic tape does, I'm pretty certain neither you, nor I, nor our great-grand-children will live in a world where you can't gain access to a turntable.

There may be fewer manufacturer choices than there were four decades ago - but there are also more (and more labels pressing for) than there were only a decade ago.
Not a direct response to what you said, but since this is a common discussion on HN, I just want to get some facts straight pre-emptively:

1) The AMA has nothing to do with limiting the supply of doctors in the US

2) The AAMC (not the AMA) formerly limited the number of medical students per-year in the US, but they stopped this practice sometime around 2004 with the stated goal of increasing the number of medical school graduates.

3) Even if we doubled the number of medical school graduates overnight, we still would not have more practicing physicians in the US, because the bottleneck occurs during residency (after medical school) - there are a very limited number of residency slots.

4) Residency programs in the US are funded by the federal government through Medicare, so increasing the number of practicing physicians would require increasing funding to hospitals that offer residency programs by increasing spending on Medicare. This is both politically complicated and incredibly expensive (training a resident is very cost-intensive when you look at the big picture).

So yes, there is definitely an issue with the number of practicing physicians in the US, but fixing it requires Congressional authorization to increase spending (and not just by a little), so it's unlikely to change anytime soon.
That may be a little overly dramatic. There have been failed fragments/forks/derivatives, but there have also been some sweeping successes.

It's too early to foretell the fate of Rocket. Containers are getting lots of attention, so I'm actually pretty happy to look at this as a potentially rewarding experiment. Worst case, it fails and we keep using Docker (or whatever else springs up).
When I go to the beach and don sunglasses to mask my otherwise creepy leering behavior, the two adjectives that most precisely describe the people I ogle are "young" and "female".

And I most certainly do not prefer to stare at Powerpoint/Keynote/Impress slideshows as someone drones on about goals and metrics.

While the preferences that govern attraction are a bit more varied, the propensity for men to enjoy the company of women who are obviously of reproductive age is literally the sole foundation for huge swaths of the advertising industry. It cannot be overridden by political correctness or gender-equality progressiveness. This is such a deeply entrenched fact of human interaction, that one can make jokes about it in the right situation, without any prior setup.

And when someone does, it is acceptable to laugh, rather than to question the premise.
It matters as an indicator of how long it would take to rebuild acompli from scratch.
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They should all use the "Happy Eyeballs" algorithm (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6555)
"And because we were all together in the same room when Vitaly found it, we isolated, analyzed, and weaponized it in minutes, rather than in hours or days."

It wasn't because you were all together in the same room, it's because you were communicating effectively and you're assuming there is no way to replicate that level of effective communication without being in the same room.

With proper tools and training, everything you did in that room could have been done over the internet instead. There are communal whiteboarding apps, collaborative code editing apps, amazingly expressive chat apps like Slack, not to mention good old fashioned audio/video chat tools.

It can be done. It is done frequently, every day. It makes me sad to see so many people on a place like Hackers News, dedicated to building the internet's Next Big Thing repeatedly claim that it's not possible to collaborate as effectively on the internet.

It's truly ironic.
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I have been concerned that Docker's scope was expanding too far for a while now, so I'm glad to see an alternative that might work appear on the horizon. That said, I am somewhat concerned that CoreOS has a suspiciously similar business model to where Docker would probably like to be.

It's in a business's best interest, and exceedingly common practice, to "land and expand" with something clear and compelling, and following that add features to compete with alternative solutions. I don't think there's anything inherently altruistic about CoreOS that would keep Rocket lean in the long-run, especially as they begin migrating their various tools away from Docker containers.
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Have you ever tried to read your site on a phone? As soon as I scrolled, a thousand things blocked the content to get me to subscribe or share. I reward that sort of behaviour with an instant close.
I wonder if Ubuntu LXD will participate in this?
This looks like it's copy-pasted right out of the HR system.

You're saying the same thing over and over again, and you're using terms like "code ninjas" that tend to be anathema to the HN crowd. You'll probably do better writing something up specifically for this post.
Keep in mind I was talking about the media available, not the medium. As you point out, while CDs have a higher theoretical dynamic range, nearly everything available after the late 1980s is compressed to within 10 - and sometimes just 5 - decibels.
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clang does a very similar thing in the preprocessor (looking for new lines if my memory serves correctly).
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"[...] how does running a virtual machine that pretends to be a Linux/x64 box... on top of a real Linux/x64 box saves anybody at least some time?"

To borrow someone else's words: https://blog.engineyard.com/2014/pets-vs-cattle

Or, in summary, it's a heck of a lot easier to instantiate a new instance of a machine from a snapshot than instantiate a new machine from a set of directions and some auto-config scripts.
> in my opinion this is a disadvantage

That is why it is listed under the "Gotchas" heading, rather than "Features".
There were many VM engines, now there are a few. I imagine the same thing will happen with container technology. Generally 1 technology stands out, then things fragment, then things coalesce into a tiny handful of solid solutions.

Docker may or may not be the container engine that lasts a long time. There is a reason they raised a bunch of money. Clearly containers are going to be big, but is Docker the one that goes on to be dominant? Docker is trying through building features & biz dev, but it's far from over.
How does additional container management software fragment GNU/Linux?
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How difficult would it be for another robot company to build similar technology? Patents are also most likely an issue.
summary of findings by a professor of psychiatry and behavioral medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine:

AA significantly increased the likelihood of abstinence at 3 month and 15 month follow-up even when self-selection bias is not a factor.

More at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/acer.12557/pdf

Context http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/06/09/h...
Does Uber disclose their data retention policies? I don't see any need for them to retain my trip history on a non-anonymized basis, other than a short lookback period for driver and date/time for purposes of finding lost items. And I would feel better knowing that they publicly state as much.
Fragments? Certainly.
Dies? Linux has been fragmented from its inception. If you include the world's Android phones, Linux probably runs on more computers than any other kernel or OS. Rocket will not kill Linux, containers, or docker. In the worst case, it will kill CoreOS, and even that's unlikely.
Regardless of whether your comment was lightly sarcastic or not, I agree that the Docker VMWare[1] & Microsoft partnership announcements may have been conditional upon a committed Docker roadmap outlining some or all of the features that others (such as CoreOS) may feel should be broken out. Typically larger ecosystem players want to be assured that your offering will have a clearly defined role within their existing ecosystem that plays to your core brand and technical competency.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/benkepes/2014/08/25/vmware-gets-...
I get that, but the question is: how much money are they making from it? Would Streetview survive as a stand-alone business? I think that was the point of the original article.
On the one hand, those are very interesting questions to discuss.

On the other hand, getting/having children is a deeply rooted desire/need in humans, and passing judgement on it feels like passing judgement on the decision to eat food, sleep, breath, or having sex.

Can you blame somebody for eating when hungry? Even when it has far-reaching consequence some fifteen years later?
One of Uber's exec was mouthing off against tech reporters at what he thought was an off-the-record dinner: http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/uber-executive-suggests-dig...

Obviously, that kind of alleged discussion is not going to win the hearts of the journalistic class, but Uber's problem is that it had a reported history of using user data for unexpected purposes, like to use the God View as decoration at a company party.

One of the key points in the OP that I hadn't seen before is an anonymous Uber interviewee who claimed that he/she had total access to the Uber customer database as part of the interview...and for hours after the interview.

I agree with some people here, that this seems like an overblown story because Uber isn't any more an attractive data center than Google/Facebook/Github/etc...the problem is that what we know of how Uber has disseminated the data within the company indicates an almost certain lack of prioritization of access control. And many of the employees at Uber being human, it's only a matter of time before someone gets phished and something like an attachable Excel file of intranet-passwords is found (or other manifestation of sloppy IT-security practices/work-arounds).

And I'd say Uber deserves a little additional scrutiny...its data may not be as valuable as Google or Facebook's, but it could very well have the lowest focus on operational-security compared to companies in its tier of valuations.
I think the more thoughts you can process per minute, the more time begins to slow. Drugs could be a way to achieve this.
To say that Firefox, one of a handful of end-user open source software packages with global reach, is hostile to open source, is absurd.

Frontend web developers are a small fraction of Firefox's users, and you can't expect them to tailor their processes and expend resources just so every niche JavaScript framework can trumpet its six-week release cycle.

For the same reason that you usually shouldn't use your distro's packaging system to install frequently changing development libraries, it makes more sense to just default to manual installation of developer extensions. You can always alert the developer if there's a new version. You may not even want the developer extensions to auto-update because then you have to include support for every previous version of your framework in each version, rather than having the opportunity to remove support for old functionality and have each extension version support only the equivalent framework version.
The military isn't that well organized. Anyone here can name at least a dozen snafu from the last decade. A purchase, an invasion, a process a project. You name it.
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Whether or not the creators are mainly Google based or not, it doesn't change the fact that their support is unreliable and untrustworthy. It's not trolling for me to express my opinion as such. If they're so quick to abandon Angular 1 (about 2 years since the stable release), they're likely to do it again. This isn't a technology issue, it's a trust issue. All this so they can create a more "elegant framework" that's likely to be more of the same. Also, just because the 2.0 release uses general concepts and design patterns that 1.0 also happens to use (DI, routing, two-way binding, etc.) doesn't make it an upgrade. That's akin to saying they're both Javascript, so they must have something in common. Ridiculous.
As a heavy user of CoreOS and docker, I'm interested to see how this plays out.

My problems with docker have been the security model, for which the only recourse I've had is to use the USER keyword in my Dockerfiles. Furthermore, networking has been a pain point, which I've had to resolve by using host networking to access interfaces.

Let's see how rocket deals with these issues and others. I pay for CoreOS support, so I'm glad to see that they're addressing this.
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Docker's main focus is to "get people agree on something". And they are doing great in getting traction and adoption. But if everyone starts to create their own flavor of containers, we still don't get portability across servers and clouds. It would be better IMHO if Rocket implements the Docker API, or if they collaborate together in creating a minimal standard. Then everyone would benefit. I'm really curious how Solomon will respond to this...
OK, I 've got the signal. Google buys email app company, what was it name? Some birdy, wasn't it. And Google shuts it down. Now MS buys email app company...

The is something important in email for big ones, they do not want small ones there it seems. Just paranoid.

Before mobile era there was incredible mail 
app
 programme - Calypso. Dead before Google became IPO. No one wanted to support it after it was open sourced. Probably it would be better for it to be bought by some Microsoft. Outlook could learn UTF-8 in subject lines a bit earlier.

UPD: on a second thought. I can see mutt and alpine behave very similarly in terminal apps from iOS. Why, why people like GUI mail so much? Perhaps Calendar integration is the answer?

UPD: Yeah, lads, it was Calypso. Survived till v3.3, but never did better.
A single machine is going to have multiple technicians and service more than 1 doctor.

A little bit of trying to find numbers suggests that 1 MRI machine might be feeding 20 doctors (if you've arranged for 56 scans a week to be the low end number and take into account specialization, this starts to make sense). I guess they are each spending a couple hours during many of their weeks.

You have labor at ~30% of cost, it looks like it should be more than 50%, and could easily be even more.
Yes. I find sometimes that programming in Racket and other Lisps is so efficient, that whenever something starts looking tedious, I start reconsidering if there's a more elegant way I'm missing to implement it. Learning it, hacking it, and reading about it (and Scheme and other Lisps as well as Haskell) have done marvelous things for my programming skills.

Today I wrote a struct system in 29 lines of code. Kinda hard sometimes to do that and then even think about going back to, well, much of anything but another Lisp or composable FP language, really.
>he ends up in a multi-dimensional space where he sends Morse code messages to his daughter in the past by moving her books and watch. How does he do that?

Because the multi-dimensional space was set up by higher-dimensional creatures, who also created the wormhole, specifically so he could accomplish all this (right down to preventing him from going on the earlier missions by causing his craft to crash with a gravitational anomaly at the beginning of the film).
I recently had to disable ipv6 because my router started freaking out about "neighbor table overflow". Some kind of issue between Asus and Comcast.