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Great article. I don't totally grok #2 about not turning over existing leads/deals to sales. That seems like a decent place to get started with minimal downside (as long as person has even the slightest discretion on shedding suboptimal situations).

I also get concerned when sales learns that it can ask product for anything and get it. My experience is it's generally better to "sell what's on the lot". This avoids the endless delays in closing pending some future enhancement.
LXC isn't a 'feature of the linux kernel' it's a user land library that uses a set of linux kernel features (e.g. cgroups, namespaces, etc) to expose an api for creating system containers. LXC isn't part of the kernel.

Docker's default driver has been libcontainer, not LXC, for almost a year. libcontainer implements Docker's execution driver api and works with the various linux kernel features needed to implement containers directly, it doesn't use LXC at all.

Docker isn't based on nor reliant on LXC in any way anymore and with the execution driver api is designed to run on various platforms.
I've always hoped that the PaperBricks, http://arxiv.org/abs/1102.3523 model would catch on.

My summary of the idea:

There is an awful lot of redundancy and wasted effort that goes into most papers. From introductions that need to be rewritten every time (when linking to a solid introduction would be both better and less time consuming). Each piece of a piece of a full paper (intro, data, analysis, ...) could be peer-reviewed and published individually. A full paper could then be built from these paper-bricks. Anyway, recommend reading the paper as it's well written and clear.

There's also a YouTube video by the author explaining it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sorEcLjN04.
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Ok, maybe I'm horribly misinformed but I thought this was commonplace on wall street (trying to trick other algorithms and the like). Are we really going after this guy because he is just a guy and not some massive corporation? I mean it wouldn't be the first time the single person doing something is made an example of while corporations do it without repercussions but surely I'm missing something here...

Edit: ok this article (posted in new right now) http://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-spoofing-the-market-2... seems to have a lot more information. Relevant bit:

> The tactic [Spoofing] was outlawed in the 2010 Dodd-Frank regulation, but, as with other forms of fraud, it's hard to prove the trader's intent – in this case, the trader's intent to cancel the order. Prosecutors must prove the trader didn't change his or her mind for legitimate reasons after placing the trade.

Edit 2: Ok looks like regulators are just now starting to really go after these people. Who wants to take bets on the chance that ANY major financial orgs get in trouble (and no, fines that are pennies on the dollar for what they are making is not "trouble", I want to see people in jail seeing how we are trying to extradite this UK guy.)
Sentient machines should absolutely not get any rights whatsoever. They will be built to be humanity's slaves and slaves they should remain.
Even when lead-gen lives inside the sales organization, the salespeople who generate leads and the salespeople who close deals are generally not the same people. It's a different skillset to hammer the phones and repeat scripts than to gauge technical fit and negotiate.

The reason to have lead-gen live in marketing is because modern lead-gen is often based on marketing initiatives. For example, a good source of leads are people who attend webinars, read blog posts, or watch videos, all of which are organized and pushed out by marketing.
You're correct that a marketing team does much more than just generate leads for salespeople to follow, but generally the entire goal of marketing is to generate targeted awareness in the market which raises the value of the company through mind-share or revenue.

There's a lot more to say about this shift, as the job of a salesperson today is very different than the same job even 5 or 10 years ago. This has a lot to do with the relative amount of knowledge out in the wild.
In the good old days, you didn't really even know what a Xerox machine was until a salesperson told you about it, let alone all the ways you could use it to help your business.
Nowadays, customers are doing more and more research (through marketing materials) to guide their decision making process before ever talking to a salesperson.
I dont think 'collaboration' is the problem, I think the main problem is the presentation.

Academics want the credit for their work, which I think they should retain. However, dissemination of work is lacking - there are tons of supersmart ideas locked in academic papers; they act as a barrier for many.

Instead of a dense academic paper in LaTEX or whichever, what if the standard were to provide the simplest explanation possible, that required a graphic that demonstrated the idea.

Its sort of a tragedy though, when revolutionary papers present ideas simply and are overlooked, often because of the misguided notion that 'simple to understand' equates to a 'trivial insight' - intoerhwords, if you read it and it makes sense immediately, sometimes you think that it musn't be revolutionary. This doesn't always happen, but definitely to an extent.

All of the 'correctness' and 'proofs' are useful for a separate crowd, and should also be included, but in a separate section because they are for a different user, namely, for other academics who are well versed in the domain. Also, a place for code/data/materials, as well as a checklist or script or otherwise to strictly reproduce results.
Yes, but the only part of the fat that transfers to the water is the hydrogen, which weighs just slightly more than nothing (perhaps TFA covers this... I didn't read it...)
Your logic is sound. Point 4 is the real argument about what the actual intent of these companies is; The fact that these companies are using the DMCA as a thinly veiled attempt to limit consumer choice and destroy competitive secondary markets. Both of which are repeatedly upheld when legislation or courts take action. Hence the the banning of "Tie in Sales" provisions in warranties on goods.

>Generally, tie-in sales provisions are not allowed. Such a provision would require a purchaser of the warranted product to buy an item or service from a particular company to use with the warranted product in order to be eligible to receive a remedy under the warranty. The following are examples of prohibited tie-in sales provisions.[1]

Regardless of how the DMCA arguments play out, at least the automakers will have difficulties moving forward as there is a long fought battle over not releasing service information on in-car computer and diagnostic information to third-party repair service provides. There hasn't been legislation over the issue because automakers volunteered to release information on service and tools required to service in car computer systems.[2] It would most likely be easy to build a legal case against an auto company that required you to take your warrantied car to a franchised dealership for warrantied replacement of a defective circuit board. So in a not too hard to imagine hypothetical scenario where a bug in the car's cam timing software cause mechanical failure, but the auto manufacturer refuses to sell the replacement part (replacement software) or tools required to perform service to third-party service providers because of software licensing, would that not fall under Magnuson-Moss Act if the repair would be warrantied?

[1]https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/bus...

[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_Vehicle_Owners'_Right_to_...

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> Are you trolling again, yummy? Or are you honestly too thoughtless

That is not ok in a HN comment, regardless of how wrong "yummy" may be. Please don't do this. The HN guidelines say:

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

This is a practical rule. Applying it, your comment can be shortened to:

A stream of people who have no long-term stake in a building do not conduct themselves in the same community-oriented way that's normal among those who do.

... which is a fine, substantive point.
On the menu screen the date was Tuesday, June 2nd. June 2 was a Wednesday in 1999. Seems computers were having date issues even before Y2K had arrived. :)

I find it interesting how so many devices in the video used analog inputs (namely dials). I guess they were easier to mock up though by then I would have expected the keyboard concept to be more common.

Many of the broad concepts are pretty close. Like when I ignore the recommendations of my fitness / diet tracking software. :)
I recently realized how often web developers defending the status quo have internalized a circular reasoning regarding "what the Internet is for". So the Internet is for web applications now, so we need to have all that stupid crap in CSS and dump metric tons of JavaScript on everyone. But if you suggest that maybe we should then drop the content/layout "separation" and make CSS actually nice to work with, the same people will tell you that "web is for documents", so what we have now is good.

I'm beginning to wonder if we shouldn't split the Internet into two - one for cloud apps and another for content - and design the tech stacks accordingly.
Downvote on the first sentence which is incendiary and probably wrong.

And even with the edit, you still don't really get that many businesses live and die by sales. Product is relatively easy to build.
500 calories in one session? Or over a whole week? In one session it is definitely not "easy." In a whole week it is.

If you walked at 2.5 MpH and weighed 160 pounds, it would take you two and a half hours to burn your 500 calories. To me 2.5 hrs is not an "easy" workout. Somewhere between medium to hard (depending on fitness level).

A single Big Mac is almost 500 calories, two snickerdoodles are more than 500 calories on average.

> Of course it's not a substitute for a proper diet, but it can be a huge factor in weight loss.

That's just not true.

A single combo from McDonalds could set you back an entire weeks worth of exercise, literally. If you exercised for an hour a day every day, it only takes a single meal to undo most of that weight loss.

PS - Exercise is, of course, very important for overall health and a long life. Nobody is arguing otherwise. But for weight loss? Heck no. The maths simply doesn't work at all.
This is the basis for the film Zardoz.
It's not clear from the article, and I'm curious as to why it took them so long to figure out? Seismographs (which, as I understand, are able to "hear" the hum as well) are not a new technology.
Um, don't you mean nets you 5 calories a day, not 15?
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Seeing how the world is going lately they can also be elected as high ranking officials and world leaders ... so nothing new.
The Washington Metro is comparable to the S-Bahn. DC doesn't have a system comparable to the Berlin Metro, because it doesn't have the dense tenement neighborhoods to support such a system.

The DC metro area actually has more population than the Berlin metro area. Most of it is just built in sprawling postwar American style, though it's urbanizing more than many equivalent American cities.
Do we really want to force companies to give the option, rather than the market? I'm not 100% Ayn Rand, but my tendency is to let consumers drive what they want to pay for. If there is profit in giving people what they ask for, someone will generally do it.

This isn't to say that market failures don't exist - they do. I'm just skeptical when people with agendas point them out without proof.
Thank you for confirming my gut response to that statement. This is very interesting.
It would be interesting to know the particulars, but in general you hook up a cyclist up to a dynamometer and a ventilator, and you measure both the amount of work done and the amount of CO2 produced. I say "cyclist" because they're the easiest ones to hook up to a dynamometer.
Well here's a great blog post on how to use the @asyncio.coroutine decorator to do asynchronous/non-blocking I/O in this style, as opposed to JS-style callbacks. I think the control flow is a lot clearer with coroutines as opposed to callbacks. I've never used Twisted though so I'm not sure how asyncio compares to that library.

http://sahandsaba.com/understanding-asyncio-node-js-python-3...
This made me laugh and is totally true. Defining your timeline seems like a necessary first step to using that phrase.
No, they didn't simply have to connect some disconnected lines. Not only did the eastern infrastructure, have to largely be rebuilt from the ground up, but even the western part was outdated and old and reunification meant that billions were spent on upgrading infrastructure.
Also, nothing on Firefox OS would stop developers from using any payment processor they wish to. It's all just web technology running on a mobile device so there are many payment providers to choose from, especially for US and European users.
That's why he said "channeling Stallman"
> I can't begin to think of the resource constraints a population would have if none of them have to die.

population growth is caused by procreation which is just other side of the coin to mortality. If (big "if" actually) species of immortals (who thus wouldn't need any significant procreation) would have higher evolution speed than mortal&procreation species then immortals would take over. We'll see this split (and resulting competition between subspecies) in human species in the coming decades.
If you're looking for a ready-made template project to try out ECMAScript 6/7/2015, I created, and have been successfully using my base-node [0] and base-angular [1] projects for a while now.

You can use babel or traceur (just comment/uncomment one line), although the default is traceur. Gulp is used for building, packaging, and lint/transpile on save. base-node contains everything to package your application into a minimal Docker container (<10MB compressed + your minified, transpiled code) with io.js. base-angular will give you a module system, LESS transpiling, live-reload (LESS/CSS changes are injected without reload), and a minified, cache-busted output that you can drop into any web server (minimal nginix containerization in the works).

I'm sure the documentation could be better, but the Readme.md has enough to get you started and the code should be very straight-forward.

Since I'm using git, I can set these master repos as the 'upstream' and whenever I make changes to the base project (like, adding containerization support) I can easily push that change out to all my projects and everything gets tracked nicely in the revision graph. The `create.sh` script in base-node will actually do that rewiring for you.

[0] https://github.com/blakelapierre/base-node

[1] https://github.com/blakelapierre/base-angular
The pydata subcommunity, the fastest growing and probably already the biggest one doesn't care about asyncio. A good multithreading solution on the other hand would have been decisive.
If a train hit the end of the line at London Paddington at full speed it would be absolute carnage, surely. Not a guided missile with freedom of movement, but it's already heading in the right direction.
Changing your user agent won't do a darned thing.

Modern mobile-friendly designs use CSS media queries to change styling based on screen dimensions.
(Partly playing devil's advocate)

Why do you think that?
How did you secure your server?

How do you know it got hacked?
These "stepping stones" are not equally distributed, and not every jump will succeed. It is not reasonable to ignore the role of external factors in the practicality of achieving success.
great post.

I've also spent a lot of time thinking about this problem and would like to eventually put some work towards it. A couple of additional ideas that I've had:

* A paper could rely on a critical reference to build upon and the referenced paper could be disproven down the line but this is not immediately obvious from the paper that used it.

* Currently it doesn't seem like any merit is given to researchers who are very good at reviewing papers. Compare this to software where a good code review is celebrated. Editing and cleaning up the state of science should be valued when scientists are looking for work so I think that something along the line of a Github CV for scientists would be valuable.
More like this: https://xkcd.com/413/
"to prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work;" 17 U.S. Code § 106

The mere act of preparing it is enough.

I am a lawyer, but this is still not legal advice.
> I wonder if this means Hacker News rankings will go down (considering it's almost impossible to read on a mobile device).

I think that many would receive this as a feature, not a bug. Part of the reason why HN looks the way it looks is to not become a popular site attracting too many visitors.
If you give chimpanzee legal person rights, does that mean you give them responsibility if they murder someone?
Upvoted for the owned/read distinction.
This article is tied to this HN item http://www.bbc.com/news/business-32406056 but this article provides much more detail.
Because we literally built them out of sand and metal. Do desks & tables get special rights?
Imagine if you as an engineer were told your total compensation was $150,000 per year. But only half of that would be certain. The other $75,000 would be dependent on how many unique features you helped ship in a month/quarter/year and how many of those were bug free. And you didn't have full control over the release cycle - there were a lot of dependencies with other orgs (devops/QA/product management) And as your company grew they could yank you off a feature about to release and put you in a new group where you were just starting to work on a new release. You had to assume that your company wasn't going to screw up and impact your ability to ship. That's at least the right mindset to compare yourself to sales person compensation. And remember, technical sales people can do very well so if it looks more attractive you should think about making the leap.
I've been looking for this comment :)
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> I use commonjs module syntax instead of imports, but may change my approach in the future.

You use commonjs with es6? Why?
But most seem to be w2 who don't get the benefits of being independent or employed.

Like most things in employment crappy poor employers spoil it for the rest.
Thanks for catching! Simplified it so hopefully i'm not saying anything incorrect now. Thanks!
I love this. I find that Rails-API sometimes does/needs some screwy stuff because it has to be 2nd class citizen. This promotion of it is great news because it will obviously be kept in sync way better.

Regardless, SPAs are fast becoming the best way to develop and this sort of thing (rather than the bandaid of turbolinks) gives me a lot of hope for the future of rails. I can even see rails eventually replacing views with a presenter layer (though something like that would probably wait for 6).

Reminds me of what someone once said about America: "they always do the right thing, after exhausting all other possibilities".
There's a fair bit of overlap between what OpenStack/LXD does and Docker/Kubernetes or DCOS do. Both technology stacks have approached the problem from different directions.

Kubernetes is trying to be the standard for container orchestration and cluster federation for hybrid cloud environments but lacks mature storage provisioning and network isolation tools. Openstack has the virtualisation infrastructure box ticked but lacks the container orchestration story. Docker has the advantage that it is developer friendly and low friction and Openstack ( fairly or unfairly so) is perceived to be complex and unwieldy.

Personally, I think Open Stack/LXD is a dead-end and Ubuntu should take on Openstack/Mirano/Kubernetes while the Docker ecosystem matures. When Docker/Kubernetes storage/network tools have matured ditch OpenStack entirely.
It is not very easy to read on iPhone. I much prefer one of the mobile versions. http://m.imgur.com/a/i1YnG
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Good point. I've created personal domain website announcements for each of my kids' births within hours of being born. I used a mix of services, such as Dropbox, IFTTT, and others, to make this possible. I've thought offering a dead-simple solution like this would be well received. But perhaps the interest already correlates with the knowledge to do it, thereby reducing the market for it.

Are you thinking of https://picnic.sh? Even simpler and cheaper, but need to write HTML and no templates.
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Either you are full of BS or have plain no idea what you are talking about. Did you ever look at your pay or earnings statements? I know what they are in both the USA, France, Germany, and the UK and I can assure you that income taxes for middle class income earners is significantly lower in the US on average.
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The programmed senescence model fits with this observation quite well. It argues that aging isn't the result of a breakdown or accumulated damage, but rather a deterministic process based on our genetic programming.

Evolution programmed us to make a human, but it didn't program us to stop developing. We're like a cake left in the oven. No one told the concrete suppliers to go home, so they just keep dumping it everywhere on our completed skyscraper.

We were built to die.

http://www.senescence.info/programmed_aging.html
so the author is saying that we 'need' physical books because the physical presence of books adds an aesthetic dimension to reading?

wouldn't the value of that dimension decline over time? for the next generation of readers, the majority of reading will be done in digital formats, and the the level of emotional attachment to physical books will be significantly less.
Entire "modern" web design, whether mobile or not, starts to look like a "PowerPoint in a browser" - with expected lack of any essence. The web is ruled by marketers now. But, like you, I'm probably also not the target audience...
Well, it is always in the shareholder's interest to give the management sky high bonuses.
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did your server had any type of website running ? such as open source projects installed ? any services or ports running and available to the outside world. Did you have a website running with code you wrote?

Out of the box a fresh ubuntu server is pretty secure so you had to install something that exposed some type exploitable code and that's how they got access to your machine.
every min they were brute forcing my sshd which I found from
/var/log/auth.log also I saw a few unusual entries in my db.
>>> Hitler considered himself a good Christian

Well, sort of a nitpick but Hitler and religion is a bit more complicated than that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_views_of_Adolf_Hitler
Yep, you're right. I'll fix it.
Simple counter-example: car fuel which converts to kinetic energy.
"...an appeals court argued that chimpanzees do not participate in society and cannot be held accountable for their actions."

Nor can babies, but they are legal persons, aren't they?
That seems to explain why evolution hasn't done much to stop aging, but it doesn't describe the mechanisms of aging itself, which cause mortality rates to increase over time with this particular curve.
Before the first ANSI standard, we had the C Reference Manual in the back of K&R1. The definition was merely less rigorous (and that lack of rigor often led to complex nests of "#ifdef"s). If a compiler generated code that evaluated 2 + 2 and yielded a result of 5, we could confidently say that compiler had a bug.