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The statement:

> The better our software gets, the more companies are able to hire. Good, well-paying, well-placed jobs results in happy people. That’s pretty rewarding, if you ask me.

is in direct conflict with what the market desires:

Market forces desire resources that labor that is mobile across the country, requires no long term commitment, has a low risk hiring and comes at minimum cost. I don't see how the market you are creating will serve labors need. Your goal is to turn labor pools into a commodity.

This is covered by the heading:

> “You better start swimming or you’ll sink like a stone / For the times, they are a-changing” - Bob Dylan

But hey, you're touching lives.
$7 is not steep at all. DO is a commodity VPS that requires technical skill to even conceptualize, nevermind set up correctly. This is an easy, nontechnical thing selling convenience. For someone who wants a pretty, simple site, $7/mo is peanuts.
Thanks for keeping your great benchmark site up-to-date.

Btw. your https/SSL doesn't work with IE11. It's the first site ever where IE11 asks me to "check the advanced settings for TLS 1.0, 1.1, 1.2 and try it again". It works fine in Firefox.

The HHVM tests "didn't complete", probably due a config error (https://github.com/TechEmpower/TFB-Round-10/blob/master/peak...) - HHVM was in the top results in Round 8/9.
If they are allowed to tell us we don't own our vehicles, they should be forced to remove words such as "own", "sale", "sell", etc from any and all communications. Period.
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Coincidentally Coda Hale's sneaker (https://github.com/codahale/sneaker) just popped up in my Twitter feed earlier. Sneaker stores the secrets on S3. Keywhiz stores the secrets in a central database and then ephemerally on the client servers. I guess if you started with something like sneaker on AWS using Amazon's KMS you could then move to Keywhiz if you eventually moved out of AWS.
At the moment, the container host exposes any kernel vulnerability to the container guests; that's a large enough attack surface that the advice I've most frequently come across is "Run your customer's containers in a VM so they can't attack your host". That's obviously less than ideal, so if VT-* can add a layer of isolation such that I don't need a VM layer in the infrastructure, it's worth it.
It's "self-made billionaire" and the distinction is very important because many billionaires just inherited wealth.

She has many good points though, especially about the web (waste of time...) and such articles not being what successful people tend to be reading...
Another thing to note is that it's just a lot harder to cause as much damage to a train. The deadliest Amtrak accidents involved collapsed bridges over water. Derailments or even head-on collisions almost always involve a dozen or less, often zero, fatalities.
In the doom scenario you sketch nobody would produce creative content anymore, and what exactly would be the problem with that then? Apparently people don't think it's worth enough. This is how a free market works.

I also disagree with your statement that people only want creative content for free. I think Spotify and Netflix prove that people simply want the most convenient service, but old-fashioned companies keep making roadblocks that make legal content less convenient to use than pirated/illegal content.

> Stallman [...] is a tenured academic. It doesn't matter to him that nobody pays for his work.

The university does? I assume he can get fired if he doesn't do his job even if he has tenure.

> Someone who works for nothing is the definition of a slave.

I think a lot of volunteers, e.g. a large amount of programmers who contribute to open source projects, do not think of themselves as or could be qualified as slaves.
"While HR SaaS is never sexy" <---I disagree
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I just ran PHPStorm's inspections on Magento's core code: http://imgur.com/RMxWEgR

Granted, the tool I used is opinionated and not all those items are red flags, but the sheer number of issues is impressive.
I think I can do better. Michael Rose breed fruit flies selecting for longevity. I believed his work showed that it was possible to extend lifespan simply by introducing the right selective pressure. If this doesn't demonstrate that aging is the result of Evolutionary processes, I don't know what will.

Here's his profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=NCQ3E5sAAAAJ&hl=en...
Potentially very cool app, but it has no privacy policy (and it's a free app, with no obvious means of funding). There's therefore no baseline from which to judge how much to trust it with potentially sensitive tasks or machine accesses.
I don't think it's that either. I think it's that laws exist to protect "intellectual property," which leads to a lot of bizarre consequences that don't occur with laws protecting traditional physical property. A lease on a physical good like a car is not particularly strange. It's just a contract that allows the lessee to use a scarce physical item that belongs to the lessor under certain terms.

If we had that kind of lease on software, but without IP laws, there still wouldn't be any strange legal consequences. The lessee gets the software, and perhaps the terms say that the lessee cannot copy or modify the software. The difference is that if the lessee does distribute a copy of the software, the lessor cannot go after third parties who download those copies, because they haven't signed any sort of lease or contract. The lessor can go after the lessee, of course, but that's it.

This latter description shouldn't be described as an "attack on ownership" any more than renting a car from the airport is an attack on ownership. The real attack on ownership is the existence of IP laws. You own your hard drive, but only until the hard drive happens to arrange some bits in a particular order.
Fair point. I know them, but I'm not involved.
The "Click here to turn off your uTorrent ads" link on http://schizoduckie.github.io/DuckieTV/ appears to be broken.
Gibbard's songwriting is so formulaic and mawk-laden that it would have been interesting to see the blueprint!
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Farming is a lot like a startup, except maybe drawn out over more years than tech people like to see.

You invest everything you have into a business that will return you very little, at least in the start. As you start to grow you put your profits into growth. Finally, as you reach retirement age the debts are hopefully paid off and you are actually making money for the first time. You're also sitting on millions of dollars worth of assets that are now fully in your name. When you are ready to retire, you sell it all.

In other words: You live in poverty over your working career so that you can cash out later in life, while hopefully not going bust in the meantime. The profitability of the business is dependant on the market and the weather, but even more dependant on what stage your business is at. Early stage businesses are apt to lose money most years, but late stage businesses should make money most years.
Who in the company gets a piece of what they kill? For all the bullshit about 10x developers (who unless very lucky get paid 1.5x at a generous company), 10x salespeople get paid 10x.
No it is not how it looks it is that the documentation is lacking. The quick start didn't work for me. If it had been a simple page returning HTTP code 200 that just said OK, it would at least be something.

Sure you can make it work if you invest more time in it, but the point is that there are other platforms that have taken care to make it easier.

In general a lot of people seem to think that documentation is one of the biggest issues with Erlang.
So you're not longer sharing a kernel with the host?
So hard right now
Ubuntu/Canonical didn't create Docker.
Is your utility function such that you believe these content creators ought to make good money regardless of whether there are people willing to pay for the content they create?
At the cost of whatever bugs/vulnerabilities exist in the VT-* implementation on the silicon
> I was living in Washington, D.C. and following the DMCA when it became law in 1998 -- I can assure you that nobody expected sec. 1201 to morph into the creature it has become today.

I shake my head at this.

Everybody in tech with 2 brain cells predicted this.

The DMCA isn't buggy. It is functioning precisely as designed--protecting big businesses.
Yeah, you should see a java.net.BindException in that case. Play sends it to STDERR rather than STDOUT, I thought maybe that output was being redirected but that doesn't appear to be the case.

The other primary cause of that "oops" message is when evolutions can't be applied but that also doesn't appear to be the case.
The thing that strikes me, having read a couple of articles on the topic, is that the OEMs in these cases think the ownership of the code is valuable enough to jump through these legal hoops and take the hit for any negative reactions or PR that ensues. On the face of it the software would not seem to be a big component of what a farmer buys a John Deere tractor for. It has to be there, to run the thing, but does it really add that much proprietary value to the product? I don't blame the OEM for stumbling over how to deal with the ownership issues, but if I'm correct and the software is not a big part of the value prop for the equipment then just open source it and call it a day. Whats the downside of that? Someone will copy your code and start making their own tractors? Deere must feel their code is that much better than their competitors, but it's hard to believe that is really true in a practical sense.
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> Then I jumped on Hacker News and there’s a post on “How Not to Talk to Investors” and it had two videos, and I was one of the examples of how not to do this, basically being publicly humiliated.

Well, aren't we a lovely bunch. Good for him he didn't give up.
Thanks, fixed.

I'll probably fix all the other errors/typos you send in the mail, but it will take a few minutes.
Maybe I'm missing something, but how do you get the client certificate private key on the e.g. new webserver which allows it to connect and retrieve its server certificate private key? Isn't that the same key distribution problem, just one step removed?
Shocking to think the Cray 2 was cutting edge at 1.9 GFLOPS in 1985. The A7 processors in your iphone? Around 75 GFLOPS or so.

Still blows my mind we've come that far, that fast.
We run some shops at Byte and were able to quickly apply the patches back in February. This week we got an e-mail from a worried customer who got a message in the back-end (from Magento) that his site might be vulnerable: 2 month's later..

Personally I've never liked Magento much; it needs expensive hosting even for modest shops and seems to be bloated with functionality you never use. And in the end you always end up with writing a bunch of custom modules because the Magento way is never your way.
Not to be nitpicky, but a vehicle with a blown head gasket is not a "perfectly functional vehicle." I'm amazed you were able to drive any distance with it at all. Must have been a tiny leak: I've blown head gaskets on two vehicles and the most I was able to get was about 5 miles before all the coolant went out the exhaust.
TL;DR:

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Bell did this with their telephones in the 60's and 70's. Customers could not own their own phone while using Bell's service. They even went so far as to stamp "BELL SYSTEM PROPERTY" into the molding. Even after they allowed 3rd party phones, they still charged a monthly fee for the privilege. It wasn't until their divestiture that they began allowing their customers to use their own phones without incurring a fee. Though it seems that was due to competitive pressure more than legal pressure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_500_telephone#Ownership_a...
>was not constantly being adjusted

CPI is rarely adjusted, and all reasons are quite well explained at the BLS site [1]. As people buy less horses and more cars it makes sense to adjust the basket of goods to match what people currently buy, not what they used to buy. They also provide the methodology on how data is gathered, processed, what changes were made, why, and the effect on future numbers using both old and new methods. They select new methods because it tracks what CPI is supposed to track better than old methods.

Shadowstats is often a nonsense site. The article you link provides no methodology, and as I pointed out above, if the inflation they claim existed we'd see it in massive price changes. Those changes are not there. Do yourself a favor: take the shadowstats claimed inflation, start in 1985, and compute how prices should have increased. Then look at prices of those goods from 1985 till now. You'll see it's nonsense.

The Billion Prices project is an independent group trying to compute inflation as accurately as possible. Here [2] is one place showing how well BPP and CPI match up.

And as above - if shadowstats, or any group had a way to compute inflation that was much different than CPI, there would be huge wealth flowing to them from simply trading derivatives based on the mismatch between the official inflation and their more accurate number. I've seen no one doing that, and I've looked. Care to show me who is making all this money based on having more accurate inflation numbers?

[1] http://www.bls.gov/cpi/

[2] http://www.mymoneyblog.com/inflation-cpi-vs-bpp.html
> The unfortunate side is that it's a 992MB iso in comparison to a 224MB Debian installation or even a 20MB RancherOS install

An ISO for a distribution is often bigger than a typical install, since it includes packages which may not be included in any particular installation. 992MB ISO isn't ridiculously large; the question is whether the typical installs recommended for various uses are unreasonably large for their uses.
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The VM doesn't share a kernel with the host, no. Without knowing exactly what virtualisation knobs Canonical are planning on adding here, it's difficult to say how much isolation is on the table.
> active HNer Edward Weismann (edw519) made an eBook[1] out of his contributions

Perhaps we all should think of our contributions as material for a future book. Imagine the thoughtfulness of our comments and the reduction in noise.
In various business publications, it's referred to as the "sharing economy".
While taking this opportunity to 'demonstrate' your point of view (and how it's justified) concerning military/defense, it is just an opinion. I'd say it's more of a cultural sickness, than a human necessity. At least most people claim to believe in the teachings of Jesus and Gandhi, even if they can't find a way to walk the walk (just talk the talk).
There are plants that seem to last indefinitely and never really die, this one, for example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorophytum

I think the real issue is that when it comes to complex animals, it's much easier to build a brand new one than to repair existing ones. Our genes encode how to grow a human from scratch, but now how to deal with the myriad of problems that can occur as a result of normal wear and tear. Repairing an ageing body is a completely different problem from growing one.

We do have some DNA that deals with maintenance processes, but I think the issue is that these processes inevitably can't cope. It's like trying to patch up an old house. You can keep doing little fixes here and there, but at some point, serious renovations are needed, and we're just not genetically equipped to do that.

You have to wonder what it is nature could do anyway, if humans living to be extremely old had been selected for. Old human bodies are so broken, we'd need to be able to grow entirely new ones and shed body parts, even regrow brain tissue. We'd need a metamorphosis on the level of what butterflies go through.
Are there public source repositories such that one can see the mass of actual changes occurring? Last time I looked I couldn't find anything corresponding among https://github.com/internetarchive
This is a known effect and most games have the ability to put a dot in the middle of the screen for reference. It doesn't work for everyone and for every type of motion sickness. Mine doesn't seem to work with any of these tricks and is at best mitigated slightly via software if its an option and usually its not for most items (disable vsync, increase FOV, turn on reference dot, turn off walking motion bop, turn off blurry transitions, etc). I think we're about the discover that motion sickness is a Hard Problem and lots of proposed solutions will only attack part of the problem domain. We're just not built for visual perception of motion without inner ear activity.

VR will most likely be hampered in a way to not allow motions that cause sickness, until this is all solved (if it ever is). This is going to hurt gaming, but it'll be good for other applications. I think motion sickness is really going to give AR companies a leg up. Projecting game elements into real space could be our only real solution here. I mean, we're about 20 years into the 3D gaming revolution and we still haven't solved this for 2D monitors, let alone headsets that make it a lot worse. Frankly, I'm not sure if the 3D headset revolution is actually going to happen. 2D screens are so convenient and you can remain social and aware of your world while using them. Even with motion sickness fixed, there are still so many liabilities.

Saying VR will be the standard tomorrow for viewing media, games, etc is a bit like saying 20 years ago every theater will be a giant IMAX. Sometimes the added experience isn't worth the hassle and I say that as someone with over 100 games on Steam.
I agree with all that.

One example of mobile zoom disabled is Gamasutra.

Not only zoom is disabled, but the fonts are tiny and tiresome to read.
Why do people farm?

John Deere owns your tractor.
Monsanto owns your seed.
The Bank owns your farms.
Linux distros share a kernel -- the Linux kernel. Maybe different versions, maybe a few different patches here and there -- but unquestionably the same kernel.

In BSD world they're completely separate OSes. Their kernels have evolved differently. They may have similar ancestry. You can't just copy and paste code from one to another and expect it to work.
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This is about floating point arithmetic in computers.
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Of course they did or else they worked at something different so that they wouldn't starve. You just don't know their names.
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When a story has had significant attention in the last year, it counts as a duplicate (otherwise a small number of reposts is OK; see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html). It's helpful when users point out the ones we've missed.
Does this really have anything to do with copyright law? Imagine I offer to sell you a tractor that contains no software, but comes with the condition that you hire me to fix it if it ever breaks down. Have I just 'destroyed the very idea of ownership'?
Cool - and again, lovely post, nicely done.
Just flew out of Boston this morning and was through security in under 5 minutes including the TSA pat-down due to opting out of the scanner. Watched a woman who I was with on the way to the airport make it through even faster as she got
to security < 15 mins before departure.

In fact, the last several times
I've flown security has generally been under 10 mins. SFO is typically the slowest and most highly variable for me, but at its worst I don't think has taken more than 20 mins. Some of the airports this is based on: RDU, MIA, LGA.
I agree that is a problem.

However, many people assume the rich are some monolithic group, hence the maxim "the rich get richer," which most people take to mean a rich person gets richer, not most rich people fall from that class and different people enter that class with even more wealth.

Thus I commented on the fact (it seems) that rich people usually do not stay rich, for any reasonable definition of rich. Other people become rich.
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DHH talks about this in The Changelog #145 (2015-03-06) starting ~01:14:15.

https://thechangelog.com/145/
The Jetsons is a fantastic example of this, it's literally 60's White Suburban America, but in space!
Extremely helpful thanks!

I had setup my robots.txt to disallow indexing of the Wordpress themes.. I had no idea that would make Google not use that to render the page, so it thought my site was not "mobile friendly".

Fixed!
You're clearly picturing a different target market than the OP is.
In a hypothetical situation where DRM caused a car to shut down on the way to a hospital ‘slightly out of range’ that’s hard to justify. The other major issue is a 'hacker' being able to remotely shut down a fleet of rental cars is less than ideal. Just picture a corn harvest where no Tractor worked for 1 week.

However, I can see using something like DRM to protect information about how a rented device is operated or where it is being more reasonable. (You drove X miles, where speeding, did not change the oil on a leased car.)
> In his world, the creators of things starve.

Why can't John Deere make money selling tractors? The company was founded in 1837. Hasn't running a business for 178 years demonstrated that it is possible to eat and produce? Or is your comment unrelated to the article?
Each client would have its own client key in this case, compartmentalizing access. The loss of a single client key would not expose your entire infrastructure.

I had been planning to do this with keys stored in S3 and IAM roles to retrieve the keys at instance boot time, stored in a ramdisk, but this saves all of that trouble.
Can I follow discounts by my favorite brands somehow with this app?
We've been hiring recently and have been using RecruiterBox for resume tracking. It makes it easy to communicate with applicants, move them through our different stages of hiring and schedule things with the rest of the team. We absolutely love it.
I think it worked out pretty well actually.
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Isolation. uid 0 is treated specially, and root breakouts inside containers (especially containers which aren't constrained by the audit subsystem in some way, like grsec or selinux or apparmor) or kernel exploits can bust your whole system open, among other security risks with containers.

hypervisor breakouts exist, but they're much rarer.
Yeah. As much as I knock cultural reinforcement of wrongheaded assumptions (it's no different in principle than fundie churches), community policing is better than the alternatives.
You'd probably still want to use Sneaker until you were massive, even if you moved out of AWS. S3 provided tremendous value compared to its costs (3 cents/month/GB for storage, requests are cheap as well) compared to EC2.
"Eat food, not too much, mostly plants"
What font are they using?
It certainly requires some bootstrapping, but it seems like once you've got the certs setup keywhiz should be able to manage updates to those and all your other keys, so you do the annoying work once with what are essentially ephemeral secrets, and then you get to use keywhiz to do all your management thereafter.
If I own my phone (Android), why am I not "allowed" to install AOSP on it?

I can install Ubuntu on an HP laptop, why can't I install a ROM on my phone?

It's all B.S.
> Or refuse content until you log in with a facebook or similar account? That's stuff real people complain about

Outside of the HN bubble, I've not seen (m)any people complain about this. Its not something most people care about really, as long as they can still access the content "for free"[1]

[1] - standard disclaimers apply.