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Some of the points mentioned in the article are in my top hitlist (for decidedly smaller production infrastructure than Shopify): Image building, Logging, Secrets, and Filesystems.

But really, the most painful aspect of using Docker in production, at least in environments where you need multiple physical servers (or VMs) is overall orchestration of the containers, and networking between them.

Things are much better today than they were a year (or 6 months!) ago... but these are two parts of Docker configuration that take the longest to get right.

For orchestration: there are currently at least a dozen different ways to manage containers on multiple servers, and a few seem to be gaining more steam, but it feels much like the JS frameworks era, where there's a new orchestration tool every week: flynn, deis, coreos, mesos, serf, fleet, kubernetes, atomic, machine/swarm/compose, openstack, etc. How does one keep up with all these? Not to mention all the other tooling in software like Ansible, Chef, etc.

For networking: if you're running all your containers on one VM (as most developers do), it's not a big deal. But if you need containers on multiple servers, you not only have to deal with the servers' configuration, provisioning, and networking, but also the containers inside, and getting them to play nicely through the servers' networks. It's akin to running multiple VMs on one physical machine, but without using tools like VMWare or VirtualBox to manage the networking aspects.

Networking is challenging, but at least we have a lot of experience with VMs, which are conceptually similar. Orchestration may take more time to nail down and standardize.
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Sorry, didn't mean to give the feeling I like the company, as I have the opposite feeling towards them.

It's like the company had a huge push to go public and then everyone was so tired that they just stopped working once they got public.

I understand that it's a company full of great people and I don't want to shit on someone's hard work but when they went public the deal they struck was

- the markets gave them a huge valuation and in return the market expected big things from them.

So what great new things has twitter done since going public to earn their huge valuation? I think even the most ardent twitter supporters would have to agree that they have disappointed as a company since going public.

As an aside, I don't think this post IPO lull is limited to twitter, with longer cycles before going public I expect alot of companies to show this type of burnout after going public.

Good companies will get this and give their employee's a way of getting liquidity from their options before IPO. I think this will become a new recruiting tool for the best companies.

Something along the lines of if we don't go public in 7 years from the companies founding then we'll provide a liquidity event for employee's who have been here longer than 4 years.

GS will play a roll in this I'm imagining.
To get the required log files, they have to seed the files themselves. No other (legal) way to do it.

Swarm information is not enough as it doesn't prove that any data has been transfered.
I think the mean price per song is certainly less than $1.50 over my entire music collection.

That assumes an average $15 for CDs with an average of 10 songs on them. At that price, I get the original uncompressed audio, FLAC files for digital storage, and whatever lossy transcoded files I might like to put on my player devices. And all of them are free of DRM, or at least freed from it at the ripping step.

In that light, to pay $1.50 for a digital download of a lossy-encoded file is pure madness. Despite the cost requirements of manufacturing, transporting, and distributing a physical medium, I still think the best value for buying licensed music performances is to get the whole CD and process the digital files yourself.

And whenever I [rarely] buy digital downloads, I will only pay for lossless file formats. I might download a gratis MP3, but only as a means to determine whether I might like to buy the album, or if there is literally no better way to get that recording.

I simply don't trust the digital music distributors to defend my interests in this industry.
Yup, that is it. Affiliate links include T-shirts, books and posters. Only makes me +-40 USD a month but it is something.
Brooklyn Burro has really excellent salsa. IIRC, the main guy used to work at El Farrolito in SF
I am not from the USA and have little knowledge of such legal processes.

Would he really be judged by his a jury of his peers? I was under the impression that he would forever be put to jail for treason the minute he stepped on American soil.
And here's Marc Andreessen, co-founder of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, evoking the same harsh truth of Glengarry Glen Ross:

“I’ve been totally determined to be on the other side of that [highly competitive, market-driven] dynamic by being here, because success in software follows a power-law distribution. It’s not Coke and Pepsi and a bunch of others; it’s winner take all. Second prize is a set of steak knives, and third prize is you’re fired.”

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/18/tomorrows-advan...
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Or: Download Chrome, (it installs even with user permissions), install it, download other stuff, win.
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Affiliate links including T-shirts, books and posters. Only makes me +-40 USD a month but it is something.
This time.. THIS TIME they're follow the law and tell the truth. Because they have such a great track record.

Remember, this is the Administration that first claimed they weren't collecting anything, then they were but not on Americans, then they were but only for suspected terrorists, then they were but only for people connected to terrorists, then they were but only metadata. How dumb do they think we are to believe that story?

And - as others have noted - GCHQ probably has a copy of everything too so this is yet another paper tiger.
Yes, it's designed that way for counter espionage reasons. In theory only the president gets full clearance for everything.
It just finished, I got 4th. I used convnets. With the correct initialization and data preprocessing they actually are quite easy to train.
I wonder if people give thought to the length of time it takes to learn an instrument, play it well, learn the recording process, record it well, learn the mixing process, mix it well, learn the mastering process, master it well etc. if they are willing to dismiss $1.50 as expensive for a song.

In comparison, how much is a cup of coffee or a portion of chips (for us UK types)?

How much is a trip to the cinema?

It shouldn't be a race to the bottom. If you want bargain-barrel prices, you'll get bargain-barrel quality too.
Plenty of people do give a shit.
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I took the post I replied to as insinuating his actions prior to retirement (and subsequent employment) were a self serving attempt to gain fruitful activity in retirement at the expense of doing the right thing. I was suggesting that the actions seen could be interpreted another, less actively negative, way.
Weren't they already not allowed to collect them in a first place?
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You forgot this part as well:

I clicked on one song that I loved. It took me to Amazon, but the song wasn't available on MP3, only on Audio CD or Vinyl.

I immediately clicked away. I would gladly buy it on MP3 for 99 cents. But not wait for 2 days for a CD to ship.

Seriously? TWO DAYS. You can't wait TWO DAYS for your beloved music to arrive? This must be the pinnacle of someone with a low attention span. Ironic considering they painstakingly searched out each artist to buy their music, only to stop when they learn it will take two days to get it?

I just don't get any more.
Even if Obama believes this nonsense, he should still pardon him, if only to take a bit of wind out of Russia's sails. Snowden's impact on the US has been entirely 100% positive and he represents no threat whatsoever to national security. I find it a lot more conscionable than pardoning some well connected extortionist or whoever they usually pardon at the end of their term.
Digital compared to physical is no comparison at all. A physical shop incurs physical consequences - like people knowing where you are, where your address is, and being able to say "it was over there".

EDIT: And credit cards still require you to reasonably show the charges are fraudulent, which means hey, you get to report it. And now you're out a credit card, so you also need to change it on all the places you need to use it.
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I'm usually on Freenode. These channels are pretty nice:

- ##crypto
- ##php
- ##security
- #hacktalk
- #hackucf
- #php.security
- #phpc
- #phpwomen
- #r_netsec
Also, isn't that figure holding the sword with the blade pointed towards his own neck? The blade looks pretty straight compared to most katana pictures I've seen but notice the tip.
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You should thank USV for funding the companies (like Soundcloud) so that they can give you a few years of a free (e.g. money-losing) service.
No, they also have exclusives - so you can't rent the apartment without going through them first.
Typical government fear mongering. The government has done a good job of convincing the common public that this is all being done for their safety though the fact it not a single terrorist has ever been caught by this. This response, albeit a small one, repeatedly reminds people that "we live in a dangerous world".

I would be criticised for being really extreme, but I would go ahead and say that on a subconscious level, the govt has instilled more fear in people than the terrorists.
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If I must attend all of these it looks like I have to figure out how to be in Orlando, FL and Anaheim, CA at the same time. Even harder than figuring out how to clone myself, I have to explain to my boss why I'm only going to be in the office for a total of three days in October.
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Sure, I am probably also underestimating how many drugs get sent past the border. But, the point still stands you can send a lot of stuff down a tunnel where loading and unloading quickly become the largest issue.
This is nicely done. Great job.
Yep, that certainly worked out well for Chelsea Manning [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_Manning#Detention
I'm surprised and impressed that they were in Uber's B round. It isn't uncommon for firms to invest in late stages of huge successes so they can list the firm as an investment; but B round is actually taking risk.
Honestly, I don't think the new services are a problem. They fill a niche in the market. Streaming services are for folks who don't want to manage their own media (physical or digital). Those folks prefer ownership of access over ownership of media itself. In itself it's fine as something to supplement a media library. But I don't believe most people realize that once access to the media is lost due to economic reasons (loss of job, service company goes bankrupt, and etc) that it's lost forever. Well as much as forever means in such a situation since you have to rebuild your entire playlist as it's not a standardized format from streaming service to streaming service (and I'm willing to bet it never will become standardized in any capacity). Either way, you pay a price. I still stand by my view that up front cost (direct ownership) is better than cost applied over time (ownership of access).
People may also not like bitcoin because they want a democratic say in the design and operation of their currency. Bitcoin has economic features built into it that its users simply have no democratic redress to change, even if they wanted to. Power should be to the people, not some guy who likes deflation and baked that in years ago.
> I'm happy to pay for your content. I'm not happy to pay for your ads. There has to be a better way.

Sorry, there's not. The vast majority of people are cheapskates.
> "There have to be other business models that free up the internet for what it was meant for: free exchange of information.”

Do there? The internet began as a government- and academic-sponsored network. Even the worldwide web, you couldn't have a commercial website until 1993.
I am from the USA, and have little knowledge of such legal processes.

That's the way they like it.
I think Simon nailed it with the points under this heading
"Reliance on edgy kernel features"

Officially Docker is only supported on RHEL 7 and up, and most systems I've seen are still on RHEL6.

I think its just a matter of time before Docker goes into Production, where I'm working we're seriously looking at "Dockerizing" lots of things, but OS support keeps popping up.
Why isn't the AG being indicted by the DOJ for this garbage? That is what I want to know. This is the kind of thing that should put someone behind bars and end a political career. Hood has obviously let his power go to his head. The MPAA is a well documented piece of garbage, but the Hood revelation is really where things get scary.
"Published Date: Jun 09, 2013"

(Note: It had the minimum response signatures within a very short time period, too)

Thanks for writing something 2+ years ago, here's some talking points based on our current administration objectives.
I live in Boston, and while I have some familiarity with rental markets in a couple of other spots in the US, I can only really speak about Boston. Here, it's much more common for the tenant to pay the broker fee than the landlord when one is used. There are no-fee apartments, but they're often being shown directly by the landlord without a broker.

Occasionally the landlord pays the fee (for example, sometimes a former tenant will agree to pay a full or half fee in exchange for breaking out of the lease or a landlord will pay during the slow season), but it's a minority. Among my friends, it's certainly more common to end up paying a broker fee than to have the landlord pay it (personally I've had it happen to me both ways.)
"Amazon Takes On Product Hunt..." might be the funniest headline I read all year.
Why did HSBC shut down bank accounts?
This is the most Hacker News-possible response to what is clearly a fun project for somebody.
It would probably be pretty similar to what happened to Chelsea Manning. Granted Manning is military and as such exempt from the due process required to citizens. However they would love to make an example of Snowden.
yes, face the consequences, like Chelsea Manning faced them, locked up for years before trial, large amounts of time in solitary confinement.

of course, whether the whistle blower actually turns him or herself over to such torture has absolutely no bearing on the constructiveness of the debate itself. that argument is merely a fascist ad hominem. something i could easily imagine Putin using, for example.

it's obvious exactly what kind of "constructive debate" on surveillance the US government wants - none.
And firefox users here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/happy-bonobo-...
I entered the Local Motors and ARPA-E contest for the Lightweight Sedan challenge and proposed a three part method to reduce weight: Revised chassis, bio-composite materials, and a hybrid drivetrain using micro-turbines to produce electricity to power the vehicle. The contest parameters stressed that the proposal should be "research for the next 10 years." So, I cited the efficiency and extremely light-weight of micro turbines to piston engines, and postulated that increasing technology in battery / KERS systems would compliment the real-world application in time.

Needless to say, I was ridiculously mad when I saw that the winning entries were 1) an aerodynamic proposal based on an exoskeleton, 2) replacing body panels with a new metallurgy compound, and some other thing that I can't recall right now. None of them really addressed the contest parameters. It basically made me swear off any more Local Motors participation.

Anyway, the bright side is that I get to maintain all rights to my entry / materials, so one day, I just might have a chance to develop a concept based on these principles and show ARPA-E and Local Motors what they missed. I guess this is how Ferruccio Lamborghini must have felt at first. Sigh.
Is there any way to stop this automatically picking up who I am when I log into GMail in the browser? I don't want Chromium picking up my identity just because I logged in once.
I have doubts whether Edward Snowden would get a fair open trial, with a jury of his peers. Serious doubts.

The entire Snowden affair reminds me very much of Daniel Ellsberg. At the time Ellsberg was condemed by many (especially in the military industrial complex) as a traitor but now I think that just about everyone believes that Ellsberg did a good thing for our country and society.

I think that history will look kindly at Snowden - Lisa Monaco and President Obama will be on the 'wrong side of history' on this issue. I personally believe that we can have an effective intelligence force that acts in accordance with international law and protects our rights of privacy and due process of law. The overreach by those running our intelligence operations smells like a power grab that is not in the best interests of American citizens.
> I'm not going to risk $1.50 to an unknown website.

This is why people need Bitcoin.
I think we might see gasoline/jet-A over electric airplanes, perhaps with or without battery storage. That would allow a few neat optimizations. You'd have more control over CG. You could have a smaller high efficiency engine that always ran at peak efficiency (or an IC engine with several modes). You could have more control over noise in urban areas. With a battery for peak/boost power, you could have a tiny engine which could supply cruise plus accessory power and use battery-backed boost for takeoff/climb. Engines that are replaceable in a few hours. All kinds of good things could happen.

>Many airplanes are certified for a ramp, taxi, and takeoff weight higher than their approved landing weight.

Is that common in G/A aircraft?

In any case, I'd love to see a tech. revolution in GA powerplants. I've grown tired of having quaint old 1950's era tractor engines be the dominant technology.
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As an almost accidental New York landlord with two apartments rented and one that we are renting ourselves I think this is going to fail. It's not a technology or a middle man problem. It's just that as a landlord I want to use an exclusive broker in a market that is always hot and expensive (New York).

I can call my broker, leave the keys with the doorman (or the broker) and worry about nothing. I never have to be there to show the place (the broker is paid to do that) and I get a more qualified renter because the broker will spend time selecting them (which I otherwise have to do). The broker has shown so many crappy places that they will help the renter see that this is a fair, market value, deal. The best part, the renter pays for everything! And because they are able to shell out two months worth of rent for the broker's fee and deposit I get someone financially more sound and likely less crazy.

Oh and one of our places is a Coop, good luck filling out a 80 page form and going through the coop board interview without a broker! That's a full time job, all the same paperwork as if you're buying a place. My current couple of renters had to supply 12 (twelve) letters of personal reference, 6 each!

Another problem is that the renters "know" about the broker's fee but don't really consider it as part of the rental "price". Psychologically they don't add up those numbers, divide by 12 and say this is my rent. Apartment prices don't vary at all whether you are using a broker or not, at least not in my experience.
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Ask HN: I just got fired for being a junior developer. What do I do now?
The official reason for the lay-off was "your services are no longer needed." Off the record, they wanted to hire more senior devs and didn't have the skills/capacity to train juniors such as myself.

In fact, while I was there, I never received any training at all: no pairing, maybe one or two UML-ish diagrams, only a few explanations of the code base. I taught myself Rails in order to get the job, and I learned the codebase with liberal use of `git blame` and reading commit messages. I thought my work was pretty good, all things considered.

What are other companies going to think of my situation? What should I do to recover from this and increase my chances of getting another (better) job?

I've only been programming professionally full-time for about a year, before that I did freelance work on the side while in college. I do Ruby, Python, {Java,Coffee}Script and Clojure, full stack (including dev ops) because I'm too young to have a specialization yet. One hundred percent self taught (studied philosophy and some biotech in college). Unfortunately I wasn't paid enough to establish much of a financial runway, so I've gotta hit the ground running and find my next gig in ~60 days. So on that note, if anyone is hiring, well you know how to contact me.
Or you pay for it yourself but without the decision to specifically pay for _that_ content. I guess one heavy point of friction is having to decide to pay for something and not doing it because you either think it isn't worth it or the decision itself isn't worth it.

Bundling subscriptions and sharing revenue could be a way to do it. Not sure how that can be materialized in practice, though.
I think the reason is because the tooling and the companies (CoreOS, Joyent, Weave, etc.) building all of the tools, are only focusing on grabbing Fortune 500 customers. Nobody is building Docker tools for the "Blue Collar Apps" of the world. And those companies might be completely justified because the benefits of Docker versus Amazon AMIs/RPMs/DEBs/etc. aren't that big enough to make us go crazy for Docker and switch everything over and fork over cash to these companies.

If I have less than 50 (maybe even 100) EC2 instances for my applications there is no way in hell I am going to run 3 service discovery instances, a few container scheduler instances and so on and so forth.