skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll tell ya, the biggest conceptual problem for me is "where does the data go". This subject isn't touched in the Docker material until very late; and even then, it's brushed over.

To me, docker can be thought of as a process wrapper. The executable is called an image, and the running process called a container. The benefit of docker is three-fold: 1) each process thinks it has an OS to itself, which is a killer feature for native binaries that have weird dependencies 2) network (port) indirection, and 3) filesystem indirection (mounting an arbitrary host dir into an arbitrary container dir).

Against all of this is the whole question of how to really use it to develop and deploy custom software! You could, for example, develop and deploy Java without ever installing Java on the host (not even the development host). But when you are finally ready to deploy, how is that supposed to work? Which pieces are static, which dynamic? Do you bake your binary into the image, or do you mount the binary from the (remote) host filesystem?

The docker docs don't answer any of these questions, and I really think it should.
True but if they were like me, they were using those as stop gaps until SSL landed in haproxy 1.5 stable. Yes, stable support arrived 'only' a year ago but that was after years of development work :) The first dev release with basic SSL support was back in September 2012.
It's a phase. I run into similar issues when using OSX while being used to Linux.
It's about the same in Russia (well, as far as I can tell by looking at my friends and relatives), to the lesser degree perhaps, but the same.
> they're more worried about messaging than being simple and useful

But useful means different things to different people. To a dev, Docker might mean you keep your environment clean, scripting of automated testing, and have platform agnostic deployments. To the CIO, Docker means your devs spend less time futzing around with their stuff and more time working on the product. Or that he can upgrade his infrastructure gradually and not have to worry about compatibility. Yes, it's the same thing, but different audiences need different messaging.
I'm not sure why you single out drivers. It's a global change. I just brought examples above where there is an apparent lack of progress in metrification effort. Road signs aren't the only such example.
> “Thank you for coming to my home” actually meant, “It’s time for you to get out of my house.”

That's a good observation.
Don't use Emacs, says Java's father
I'm not arguing that people should be flipping burgers, or even that we should be "creating jobs", or whatever. I agree with you, some of the things people have to do to earn their right to exist in this society are inhumane and it would be great if they were automated away, and everyone benefited.

The problem is that nobody's really interested in what happens to the low-skilled worker once their job gets automated away. Take a walk through the Tenderloin in San Francisco some time and ask homeless people what they used to do before they became homeless, and see how the "benefits" of automation have worked out in practice.

The pariah class, represented in my mind by the number of chronically homeless people, the prison population, or people who work in the informal economy because they can't get work due to either of those conditions, has grown since the 70s, I believe in large part because of automation. And relative poverty in the U.S. is getting worse, not better.

I don't disagree with the potential benefits of automation. I just wonder whether we're really paying attention to who's receiving those benefits.
This is absolutely amazing!! Pardon my ignorance, but how does this compare to ion thrust? Unless that's still theoretical, that is -- this seems like an even more elegant solution that ion thrusters.
> e.g. The slide with the correlation scatter plots - who devised the model to draw those trend lines? That's just awful statistics.

Since the tool appears to be ggplot2, the line (generated via geom_smooth() ) is likely LOESS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_regression

However, they deliberately removed the confidence interval provided, which is misleading.
Well, what responsibility does an employer have to an employee? Is it a paternalistic relationship? Once you employ someone, are you thereafter responsible for their well being for the rest of their life? Or is it an economic transaction between relative equals, where either may end the relationship and go on their way? Or something in between?

In my mind, it's more the latter. The ditch diggers are grown adults and should be capable of taking care of themselves.

The paternalistic approach has been tried, but it has some unpleasant side-effects e.g. Ford spying on his factory workers to monitor their behavior in their off hours. Personally, I'd find it infantilizing.

From the employer's perspective, it's not much of a choice. If a steam shovel exists, you can buy one and lay off your workers, or you can wait for your competitor to buy one and put you out of business, then you lay off your workers anyway.
There's a difference between using information about an author to help analyze the thought process behind their work and using information about an author to prejudge their work. I can analyze Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's writing based on his belief in spiritualism, but that isn't the same as labeling Sherlock Holmes blasphemy. You are confounding evaluating purpose and evaluating quality. If I was writing an essay on the origins of TempleOS, then knowing the personal life of the creator helps. If I'm evaluating the quality of the software, then information on Terry is irrelevant.
I have first hand experience with the hell that is benzodiazepine withdrawal. While in college, I was prescribed Ativan (Lorazepam) for Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Depression. It was a normal starting dose, but I took it compliantly for over a year without dose escalation.

One time I left my pills on a work trip. That consecutive weekend of inadvertently quitting cold turkey was a living hell. Suicidal thoughts, insomnia, and the most intense panic attacks I can imagine terrorized me.

I remember calling the suicide hotline multiple times and was one 911 phone call away from checking myself into the hospital. The only thing that kept me from losing my mind was going on intense, long distance runs where I tired myself to the point of exhaustion.

It wasn't until the following Monday when I could get a new prescription that I realized I was deep in addiction. I spent the next couple years weaning myself off the drugs with the help of the Ashton Manual and full denial of my psychiatrist that these pills had any addiction potential.
You might not notice the difference, but that guy at Apple who's only getting 5% of his usual haul of bitcoins this month sure will!
With regard to the quote I found this: http://history.stackexchange.com/questions/10055/what-is-the...

It looks like the speech has no good reliable source.

That doesn't mean this isn't happening or doesn't happen. Merely it means that the quote isn't supporting evidence.
Robots not taking jobs at this rate.
Excellent schoolmasters
http://acousticbrainz.org/

It's a start. I don't think you can query it on specific attributes like that yet.
Or get the Ultra edition for $25 a month. It costs so much so it will work better.
My fear is the same thing that happened with opiods will happen with benzodiazepines. There was a moral panic and the government started cracking down. The government can't do anything with finesse, though, so for awhile people who were in terrible pain had a lot of trouble finding doctors who were willing to risk prescribing them the drugs they needed.
The Shadow in the Darkness: A guide dogs story
"why are mobile carriers into infrastructure sharing"

Because for profit companies want to make as much money as possible and spectrum is limited. Which is more or less why buying an empty field in the Brazil is ridiculously cheaper than the same sized empty field in downtown London.
The article does mention deaths caused by accidental and deliberate barbiturate overdosing.

And saying that they're safer than that other thing, while important, isn't good enough. Sleep hygiene or sleep studies are even safer than benzos.
Looks like my `docker-stats-all` alias:

docker ps -q | xargs docker stats
Anne > What’s Aphyr?

Bob > -Aphyr is that guy who wrote, ‘Call Me Maybe.’ You know, the distributed systems and BDSM guy?

Anne > What? Did you say BDSM?

Bob > -Yeah, BDSM. It’s San Francisco. Everyone’s into distributed systems and BDSM.

This hilarity demonstrates the tone, and alone is worth the price of admission. Great job with this article.
That's funny, I get the exact opposite feeling. They understand their audience and they know how to communicate with them. But without being secretive; any curious cat can see what the others are being told.

In fact, imprecise or unclear messaging is usually a red flag.
I get that you want to make people aware of the tool and its advantages because you think others might find it useful. But what part of that requires any attention to the condescending idea of "messaging" vs just straight up telling people (a) what it does and (b) why you created it.

Anyway, perhaps I'm being a grumpy old man late in the workday, I'll leave it be :-)
Its really a question of per file system as that makes a real difference.

XFS and ext4 will online defrag, i.e. when your volume is les than 90% full you don't worry about it, if its fuller than that fragmentation is not the problem to worry about.

BTRFS and other COW fragment easily but advantage means fragmentation is not your prime concern. Also large single write files are not the problem. When using NOCOW on a directory see above.

MAC OS X you will have terrible performance anyway... Relatively speaking if you have more than 2 disks per volume.

Windows... no idea to be honest
First: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlin...

Second:
There is only one reality, the one we share. Claiming otherwise is absurd. Some people believe that obesity can be healthy too, and that's far from the truth. Just because you say something is so doesn't make it so. Having multiple personalities is not a normal thing, and if it begins to affect your life (by way of anxiety, depression, etc.) you need help. You can't mess around with this stuff. Mental disorders are serious.
This is a really great resource, thank you.
I've been pushing this all afternoon. Feels great.
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The absolute magnitude of internet users is a different matter than percentage. Brazil is a huge and populous country; I'm not surprised there are more total people without internet access.
> The data presented is a sample, the "true" distribution might be different from what is shown, and if you start 'cleaning" the data based on subjective judgements, you might never discover the true range.

Note that if the sample is large enough and selected uniformly, the need for the analysis on the entire population is unnecessary.

In this case, it does't apply, though.
Cuban authorities would also be very interested, I imagine.
But people with long term pain mostly should not have opiods -- they should have rapid access to skilled pain management clinics (and if that clinic recommends opiods then fair enough). Many people in pain end up addicted to opiods, and don't have adaquate pain relief.
> IMO, what you call strong family ties, others might call patriarchy.

They are often correlated and found in similar cultural sources, but they are distinct elements. The US idealization of the nuclear rather than extended family and corresponding weaker family ties didn't (and still often doesn't) come with the breaking of patriarchy -- in fact, it is rooted in a time when patriarchy was quite strong -- though you sometimes (especially now) find non-patriarchal arrangements along with it.

Strong family ties and non-transactional view of family interactions doesn't have any essential tie to patriarchy, nor do weak family ties and a transaction approach to interactions have any essential tie to the absence of patriarchy.
> Man has much higher status than the woman - lowers

> Woman has high sex drive - lowers

Wait, what? It's an interesting list, but romantic/comedies (traditionally female oriented, see upcoming Amy Schumer movie) are the most common "women and men are of similar social status" which leads me to believe that these are equally false assertions.
The chemicals created by cannabis varieties are shown to have an effect. But this comes with a caveat that often gets ignored: the delivery method. I also have never seen an amount specified (although I'm sure if I looked more into the linked studies I might find that).

Back to delivery methods - you get a lot more THC in your blood stream by using a vape than by smoking a joint. The delivery method used by these mice studies is tubefeeding, which is an even more direct method of getting the chemicals into the bloodstream. The studies on THC/CBD/etc do not imply that the typical use of smoking marijuana would be beneficial.

I do remember a study showing that smoking may result in a decrease, but I don't think the results were strongly conclusive. I also believe it had received funding by a pro-legalization lobby group, which means I don't quite trust the weakly-correlated conclusion of the study.

E:

Although it gets a little lengthy and still misrepresents the article, the most accurate title would be "Cannabis not linked to increase of cancer".
On Android, you can just go to "Settings" -> "Cellular networks" -> "Access point names" and choose whether you want to request an IPv4 or IPv6 address.

As far as I can tell (from looking at https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201699), iOS doesn't have an equivalent option, so it probably just doesn't support IPv6 over cellular networks yet.
How to design a metaphor
That's the rub, though. People do mix them with alcohol. Isn't that what killed Whitney Houston?
JFWIW: I'm @tqbf on Twitter, and 'tptacek here. @tptacek is someone else. :)
Sadly I often feel this is the state of most of the web-dev stack due to high churn. There are extremely smart people working on tools who keep forking out new frameworks/tools/components/scripts and a bigger pool of smart people who keep consuming it.

Having seen in enterprise incredible amount of man-hours wasted on migrating, re-writing and creating POCs on the latest fad, I sometimes wonder whether this cycle is productive or we keep at it just to keep our brains working and not go insane thinking of geo-political/financial/meta-physical questions. Its perhaps Crack for the tech crowd.
It's been a revelation for my family. I went from reluctantly heating up stir-fry to eat on the couch to enthusiastically preparing fresh food, sit-down family dinners.
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Bandwith, yes. "Latency", not so much. We talk about a latency of milliseconds being important for e-commerce, online trading, API Access, but a sneakernet has a latency of at the very least days for the most "interesting" stuff, and months for other content.

So yes, the sneakernet can be used to distribute education materials, movies, texts and the like, but the real benefits of the internet only develop with low latency and multidirectional communication.
Letters to Browsers Regarding Government Certificate Authorities
I cannot off the top of my head tell you how I'd draw an ASCII spiral. But I could tell you how to write a two-phase commit distributed lock, or a C compiler, or an ARM disassembler, or a link-state SPF routing protocol, or, obviously, most typical Rails apps. Am I certainly not qualified, or is that really just a super dumb question?

I don't know where you stand on it, by the way; attribute my hostility to the question, not yourself.
> But what part of that requires any attention to the condescending idea of "messaging" vs just straight up telling people (a) what it does and (b) why you created it.

"messaging" isn't a condescending idea, its simply having clear, coherent means of communicating some message, with awareness of the audience that message is directed to. Like, what your product is for and why people should (and how they can) use it.
FlashNetworks DMCA'd malware sample
Yep, different applications are guaranteed to react differently to this, depending on how they were written. And a lot of games use the _rdtsc intrinsic straight from the CPU... I can't pause that. :)
It was a mix of the Cassandra servers serving the button being down and the buffer mentioned previously.
I'm curious what has led you to feel that benzos saved your life. Care to expand on that?
I see no reason to not believe you. You should at least consider that others might differ. Those others might be a small niche big enough to be worth milions.
Eddy Cue was embarrassing. He made so many grammatical errors it was like he was winging it, and when he tries to seem hip it's cringeworthy. There was a moment where he queued some stuff up and then stiffly said, "yeah! I think I'm really gonna enjoy this playlist!" as if anybody in history has ever exclaimed that.
As long as Onyx is easily searchable while it remains relevant, I don't see this as a problem. Yes, this particular incarnation of 'Onyx' might be lost to history after it has stopped being relevant. So what?
This OP gem-of-a-story reminds me of another masterpiece, about Tcl:

http://www.markroseman.com/tcl/dyingout.html (ref: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9689046)

Edit: link to submitted story.
If used appropriately and sparingly they are very useful for many conditions. I've taken Valium and Xanax as needed for more than 2 decades without becoming addicted.

The article is very biased. Doctors don't tell patients that these drugs don't have much downside! Most of them know that benzos are not a long term solution due to tolerance.
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"Mirab, his sails unfurled!"
Well Java's father invented Java. Why should we care his advices???
> Everything can be weighed, everything can be dunked in water to test its volume, so why should something not have a "volume"?

But it seems pretty obvious to me that you can't measure the volume of something (accurately) if it has features smaller than a water molecule.

Don't know about an equivalent example for weighing things.

But it stands to reason that, whatever you (think you) want to measure shouldn't have meaningful features smaller than the accuracy of the thing you're measuring with.

That's why we made electron microscopes, because photons were too big.
The 80% poor may have had their standard of living raised by the revolution in 1959 but the rich and middle class had it lowered. In the 55 years since, the standard of living of the middle class and opportunities for the young in other similar countries has advanced past Cuba's while Cuba has stagnated and remained a 1970s soviet-like low-tech state.
Halcyon author here. Here’s a couple of my thoughts:

http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/3957e1/announcing_f...
They certainly shouldn't be prescribed lightly (and not as a first choice), but for some people they work without causing side effects in situations where alternatives don't. Keeping them as an option is still a good idea IMO.

I've been taking tamazepam for insomnia, off and on, for months now, and experienced no side effects or addiction (when I don't need it, I can stop taking it for a week plus without any adverse effects). I tried multiple alternatives, but none were suitable (diphenhyramine/Nytol - no effect, currently using it as a anti-histamine; zopiclone - severe side effects, including memory loss and visual changes; amitriptyline - effective, but left me extremely tired for ~24hrs after each dose).

It's worth pointing out my experience and the lack of addictive effects may not be typical - I was prescribed tramadol (an opiate) for about six months at the maximum dose, and was told by my neurologist to taper slowly and stopping them will be worse than stopping heroin. I stopped cold turkey and had no problems or side effects (other than the original symptoms coming back of cause).
I agree opiods should be a last resort for long term pain. But they should be available if needed.

It wasn't just people in long term pain, though. It was people who'd just had operations. It was people in hospice, for Pete's sake. What's the point of worrying about addiction in someone who's gonna be dead in a month?
It is not absolutely essential to do anything of the sort - that's one of the central arguments of the post-structuralist movement in critical theory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-structuralism#General_prac...
Competition. If companies are making huge margins by simply providing brokering and marketing services (instead of also providing assets like a car or a gallery), more companies will get in the space and drive the cost down.
Just because something can be done doesn't mean it should be done. The article does mention this:

many critics say it has yielded a mishmash
of sparsely populated office buildings
Cuba is way ahead of North Korea in terms of basic human rights. The Cuban government aren't saints by any means, but to put them on one level with whatever/whoever is ruling North Korea is unfair to them.

In Cuba, the authorities even have trouble locking dissidents up, more often than not. In NK, mass executions and mass imprisonment are the norm, and the differences between prison, labor and army service is at best murky.
Yep, my first thought went to my Amiga days of passing floppies around. Then later DOS and early Win9x that was first floppies and then CDR based. Then came LAN parties...
A keyboard designed for programmers developed by an 8th grader
I agree. Honestly, I knew little about the company until now, and this spat is what I'll remember.
I've taken benzodiazepines over a few periods of time, prescribed by a doctor. They helped tremendously with anxiety in a way nothing else (exercise, meditation, relaxation exercises, etc.) did. Quitting them was hard but manageable with a fair amount of planning and gradual dose reduction. The first time was the hardest, the next two times I knew what to expect. The key is very gradually reducing the dose to zero over weeks or even months. Most people probably can't or won't do it but it's possible with the help of a professional who knows what he/she's doing.

In short, they are a tool that needs to be used responsibly. Prescribing them to people who don't need obviously isn't. Quitting them cold turkey is also a terrible idea.
Why are we building this world? What are we thinking?

Quite simple: because if we don't want to end up under the bus ourselves, we need to throw the underskilled masses there first and try to buy room to breathe.

We can't save them, but maybe we can save ourselves (maybe).
I'd rather not get that specific about my medical problems. Sorry.
See also The Story of Mac, a Lazy Junior Programmer:
http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/macros-defining-your-own.htm...

;-)
How long ago was Ikaros designed? I've been a member of the Planetary Society since I was a child and this has been talked about since at least the early 90s, iirc. This has been a major goal of the Planetary Society for years and years and years, finally overcoming the setbacks with a successful crowdfund. I don't doubt Ikaros may have been conceived much earlier, considering how spacecraft design takes time.
They couldn't shoot it down, they would just confiscate the ground stations or just not let them into the country.
Yeah, I remember we had to put an MP3 frame checker in the app to help prevent them from being shared. We had enough legal trouble with just the music industry suing us.