skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Instead of constructively addressing these issues, Mr. Snowden's dangerous decision to steal and disclose classified information had severe consequences for the security of our country and the people who work day in and day out to protect it.

So it's an admission that they view unconstitutional surveillance as necessary for security? That's too bad. Because that surveillance is exactly what got "severe consequences" as in being challenged.
I always assumed my friends who spent their summers lifeguarding had a simple carefree job. I never gave much thought to just how attentive you have to be as a lifeguard. Thanks for putting this into perspective (literally) for the rest of us.
Dockerfiles considered harmful
Waveform.js
It is still early, and it took nearly half a decade to get companies to use cloud services and that has a well defined API for orchestrating resources. It will take similarly long for containers to have well tread paths for discovery, logging, failover, image building etc... etc..
> so are we in violation by using it to parse cronspecs that our customers have entered into our SaaS API?!

If you don't provide the source somewhere or link to it, yes, but it probably won't require you to make your entire codebase AGPL.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/newdelhi/kalam-surprises-third...

By the way my beef is with the fact that Kalam was undoubtedly the best choice to be the president for a second term. However as i mentioned above Sonia Gandhi (and the Congress) did not even consider his past record and instead nominated their own candidate who can never hold a candle to someone of the stature of Kalam. My objection is to the fact that you are claiming that 2007 presidential election were not political when in fact they were as political as anything in India gets. This is notable because Kalam had proven himself beyond any doubt.
Aren't the ISPs now indemnified? If so, seems like a win for government, they can avoid FOIA's and such about data THEY are gathering.
You can read the blog post that I wrote last year when we announced Aurora to learn more about how it works:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/highly-scalable-mysql-compa...
The original supposition was that electric planes are the future - albeit a future very far way - because electric means no oxygen concerns, which means higher altitude, which increases efficiency and / or speed.

Now, electric doesn't mean battery. Fuel cells, solar, or even hybrid might all play a part. I believe a large proportion of energy consumption is during takeoff - what if you could draw take off power needs from the airfield rather than from the aircraft? What about hybrid - use gas to get to 30,000 feet, then turn on electric to go higher than that?
Yes battery energy density is miles away currently, but if we avoid batteries in part, and improve them too, where might things be in 50 years time?
The point is we are on the journey with electric planes, and the goal is a good one for reasons stated. Major problems to overcome - absolutely, but this is not a short or medium term prediction. But 'Magical thinking' required, more so than Dyson spheres? That's harsh.

I think Musk said he'd like this to be a far future project for him. He said he's driven by not wanting to go backwards - how space travel was worse than the 60s, as is air travel (no supersonic public aircraft any more). Electric planes - if possible - would be the solution to faster air travel. With Tesla and SpaceX under his belt, he'd certainly got the necessary chops to tackle it.
Its my understanding that Azure is slightly better for students. Their Dreamspark offering, at least when I looked at it, was better if you got started in the first couple years of school.
US SPECIAL OPERATIONS FORCES, Over 1000 People in Seal Team 6[pdf]
wow. Thank you for that. Learned an important lesson.
What do you do with the users' location history on the server side? (Obviously you see it to be able to know who to send push notifications to...)

Is it stored? Logged inadvertently? Intentionally archived? Intentionally purged?
it took nearly half a decade to get companies to use cloud services and that has a well defined API for orchestrating resources

There's lots of stragglers; sometimes it's a struggle to get people to even consider AWS for development boxes.
Malcolm Gladwell: The Snapchat Problem, the Facebook Problem, the Airbnb Problem
Offtopic: http://i.imgur.com/E3UyqFO.png Well, that was weird. A refresh fixed it. Chrome 44.
It's the future!

http://blog.circleci.com/its-the-future/
SpaceShipTwo Crash Ruled Pilot Error
Docker will likely be more prevalent in a few years with startups who have built their infrastructure form the ground up.

The opposite seems likely ... Docker will fade and become deprecated as building infrastructure from the ground up locally to feed into the cloud becomes cheaper and cheaper still. AWS is not always so cost-effective when you truly dig in and crunch the numbers.

My guess as to why Docker won't succeed widely in production is because it's a software-based solution trying to glue together slippery pieces that just don't want to be glued together. The core issue of security will never be solved by a Docker-like solution; that problem is best solved by integrated hardware.

This very issue is being addressed in ClearLinux: http://sched.co/3YD5
> If you have a basic income, it's easier for people to run websites for free without ads.

Not that true, in any basic income that is sustainable in the near term. Basic income doesn't change the fact that time and effort dedicated to maintaining a website has an opportunity cost in terms of the fact that that time and effort could be used for paid labor (or devoted to actively managing one's capital, etc.), and that time with the skill necessary necessary to maintain a quality website has substantial market value.

We might be able to afford basic income that replaces means-tested poverty support programs and on its own provides an income that mitigates poverty somewhat (but doesn't eliminate it) in the near term, but we certainly aren't going to be able maintain one at a level where most people aren't strongly motivated to seek additional income in the market.
So the rumors appear to be a little more true. Major market shift for Apple.

Less seriously: queue the jokes about it only having 1 pedal, or needing charge station adapters.
The real reason is that they fight very hard to seem like a neutral search agency. They wouldn't want to jepordise that for a squabble with hollywood.
I was hoping for an explanation of how they are able to pinpoint exactly which direction to dig and come up. I mean.. coming up into a 2 foot square from 35 feet underground from a mile away isn't something you guess at. GPS signals don't work underground do they?
We will see if they dare use the 'it is not supposed to be secure' excuse that lock-maker Onity made (Onity is the company that charged its customers for fixing its faulty product.)
I believe parent is using "API" in the "wire protocol" sense, not the "intra-process programming interface" sense.

Those have not been deemed copyrightable as yet, because those don't necessarily require header files.
Rowhammer.js: A Remote Software-Induced Hardware Fault Attack in JavaScript
The problem(s) with "docker logs" is that, without getting logs out of docker you can't see multiple containers' logs interleaved, and without a separate logrotate setup they're not rotated (the files in /var/lib/docker/containers/ grow indefinitely).
Why the most popular rule of weight loss is completely wrong
Some more tutorials would be nice. I tried to learn it addition, but that failed miserable.
Five habits that have improved my JavaScript
Exactly. Often in BigCorp type places bugs are classified as deviations from requirements. If this poor design was the requirement, then any objections that may have arisen would've probably been classified as suggestions instead of bugs.
As many different "UIs" as there are that may be tricky to get a consistent answer for.

Oh well. Something else to roll into systemd!
Wired to fail
This sounds not exiting at all.

There's nothing wrong with releasing a bunch of small improvements, I just don't see why it's worth a HN front page entry, even as a regular git user.
Incredible company and wonderful product! I guess they will do even greater things
My reply was a bit ambiguous and snarky.

I don't believe it's the wrong answer if it works. But people are commenting about moving the web forward to run apps in browsers and all and so there are parallels with what we did in the 80's. That's really what I was getting at. Nothing in computing is ever really new.
QA is the safety net.
In this regard I think the remarks of McKinley's "Choose Boring Technology" [1,2] is quite relevant.

[1]: http://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology-slides
[2]: http://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology
But at the same time, anyone could distribute the work for free. Self-publishing on Amazon would have to add value to the work in some way, for example in formatting it as an e-book.
As an aside, I like how the waveform is part of the brand of Soundcloud. It shows how much you have to take care of the design process.
Native apps will always be much better at native than a browser

That may be true but I don't want to install dozens of applications, I like being able to run apps in my browser. Google Docs is great... 99% of the functionality i could ever use in an office app, and no need to install software (if it even runs on my platform).

And I absolutely hate browsing the web on my phone to have every site pop up a "hey, try our mobile app, its soooo much better" message that gets in my way.
Windows XP Embedded is still supported and still gets security patches. I'm also pretty sure you can get the source to it too, if you pay Microsoft and sign an NDA.
It will have rounded corners and four wheels!... It will be ... revolutionary.
Ecuador sends thousands to study at world's top universities, all expenses paid
I think the answer to all question/problem get mentioned in comments is WebOS or specifically ChromeOS.you have web cross platform app,without huge cost of browser on top of os(so vendor can optimize the software stack very well).only problem with ChromeOS is non organized native app development.which could be solved by WebAsm.
:( if steve were around it would have rounded corners and no wheels. figure it out!!!
I don't agree with this at all. People will always want bigger TVs and fancier cars.
This is a tried and true technique used by students for decades.
I wonder if Apple is going to try to extend their closed eco-system concept to their electric car. That would be interesting to watch.
DevOps/infra guy here rolling out Docker startup-wide at the moment. You and minimaxir are both correct.

With regards to docker/lxc/container security, you're right. Some of the biggest players haven't solved the lxc/docker/container security issues yet; its a really hard problem to solve. Breaking out of container will always be easier than breaking out of deeper levels of virtualization (Xen/KVM).
There's a book about this, first published in 1991. It was pretty much the bible for for a couple of generations of startups:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_the_Chasm
That's certainly the mythology behind Valley venture capital, but we needn't stipulate that it's true for Patrick's argument to remain plausible.

Certainly, it seems like an extraordinarily implausible claim that VC in 1998 was better than it is now. I raised mid-7 figures, institutionally, in '99. VC in '99 was atrocious.
And I thought, there was another Band with quite a similiar Logo...
Probably a great source of security holes, if nothing else :-)

Here's a writeup of how to do plugins: http://www.drdobbs.com/shell-corner-bash-dynamically-loadabl...

I went to school with Chet in the late 80's and never knew about this feature until today. Looks like fun.
I think it's a silly distinction to make. Native applications (meaning software running on a computer, outside a browser sandbox) have always offered a smoother, more comprehensive user experience.

That doesn't mean users get no value from the web, or that they're so spoiled by fast transitions in Microsoft Word that they won't want to use a website.
3D Xpoint memory: Faster-than-flash storage unveiled
Actually, quite the opposite, which is why salon.com has to write these politicized articles. If you actually thought this, you would just let the events unfold.

Nobody wants Hillary and Sanders will never get in running as a 'socialist'. All of the polls show the GOP ahead. Trump hasn't even effected the Hispanic vote with his crude comments (although, I don't think he will win).
Hardly. One direction's "packet" size is just limited by URL encoding/length restrictions. :)
ehi alcin, right now we have only a premium pack for owners. Buying it, owners are able to: post multiple listings, find the best tenants (regarding to 5 factors as age, gender, worker/student, smoker/not, pets/not) and be featured on first page (with a premium icon on the thumbnail too). Then we will also boost the listing on facebook groups and vertical search engine for 5 days from the submitting :)
> There's POSIX

POSIX + a standard library for UI components + containerization + webassembly would be the "correct", cleanroom solution in my opinion.

If you want to build and run "native but untrusted" applications on the user's computer on heterogenous environments and can't anticipate which APIs someone is going to need next. Well then give them access to a walled-off part of the computer.

Same-origin policy? Replace it with a l7 firewall (+ some DNS security manifests?)

No cookies/local storage? That just means spinning up a new container every time the user visits.

No audio playback? Don't map the sound device into the container.

Etc.
I think this was Larry Lessig's position at one point. I think it's a a nice, practical solution that acknowledges that copyright is a political animal - let Disney keep Mickey forever, but the public gets everything of a lesser order of magnitude in value faster.
The distinction is that once the author dies the work falls into the public domain. For as long as they are alive they can license it to a company, and the company can defend it or do whatever, but when the owner dies the copyright dies with them.
That's the original Wiki, by Ward Cunningham. He invented it. Currently read only, unfortunately, due to a hack last year.

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiWikiWeb
It's probably blind so it's more like "about a minute".
Somewhat related, check this out. In the video they theorize that the power line attack is obfuscated by software techniques. An old OS may have buggy USB drivers I can imagine but they claim the OS does not matter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdnHHNeesPE
and this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxQUKAjq-7w
thanks, but of course I was asking about admiral's avocado oil preference! :) I've never tasted avocado oil.
Melodic death metal? WTF?

I'm actually more of an electronic music fan, but they both suffer from the same disease: hundreds of sub-genres with less than 10 producers/bands that can accurately represent them.

I hate sub-genres of music.
If this is your advice then you shouldn't give advice.

1) 'docker logs' relies on using the json logdriver which means the log file is stored in /var/lib/docker/..... and grows forever. No rollover. No trimming. FOREVER.

2) What if your container dies? What if your host dies? Do you have any state at all or have you abstracted that out? Are your systems distributed

3) Always running does not answer finding where to run them

4) That only works if the container is running. What if it died? Also, docker logs is a fool's game

5) bingo, that's right at least

6) ....
If you scroll to the download section you can see that the captcha check is completly client side. The bot won't even notice there's a captcha unless they're executing js.
Sri Lanka Signs MoU with Google for Internet Beamed from Balloons (Project Loon)
You're right, there's no native-feeling cross-platform UI library for native apps, and the browser isn't poised to be an exception to that. Apps made in the browser don't feel native. The closest to native-feeling app built in a browser that I can think of is Atom, which feels like a more sluggish version of Sublime (a Qt app). Neither of them feel as native as truly native apps do on their native platforms. Not nearly as native as Gedit on GNOME, Kate on KDE, Notepad++ on Windows or TextMate/BBedit on Mac.

And they never will because the native feel comes from paying close attention to the design language and behavior of your app with respect to the host platform. If a cross platform app really paid close enough attention to these things to make a difference, they may as well completely rewrite their UI layer on all platforms.
I guess everybody gets to put stuff on the Internet before taking a morning cup of coffee, or in a rush. I'm certainly guilty of both.
I second this recommendation, especially Chamberlin's discussion of filters. He provides an implementation of a state-variable filter (low-pass, high-pass, band-pass, and notch) in, if I recall correctly, four lines of BASIC. I wrote a version of it in ARM Thumb assembler for the Cortex-M0 and it sounded quite good. [1]

Despite being published over 30 years ago, it's a great resource for anyone interested in sound synthesis on resource-constrained systems.

[1] - https://github.com/74hc595/LPC1114-Synthesizer/blob/master/k...
"Will it be priced aggressively to compete with the Tesla’s Model 3’s $30K range?" Since when did Apple ever compete on price?

Then again, Tesla isn't actually selling a car for $30k yet and reports are that they are losing over $10k for every car sold.
I know that 'appeal to authority' is a bad argument technique but the Docker authors themselves have mentioned this repeatedly in the past. IIRC one of the holes was sysfs. Has something changed?
too bad that the battery will not be removable.
I think the Wired headline isn't any better than what I've used: "Blame Catastrophic Blindspot Virgin Galactic Crash", but an important piece of the story is that the hazard analysis done during design of the craft didn't account for the possibility of the pilot making the error that lead to the crash.
Aftermarket-only charge station adapters that cost $45.
I think her point is the internet has changed much more quickly since then, as opposed to earlier years.
So, this article has a social bar covering the text on the left on my chrome browser and popped up a 'subscribe' window.

The bar was covering text I was trying to read, especially since I do heavy analytics at a major financial institution on a daily basis.

Ended up leaving me disappointed.
Perhaps an orbiting network of solar powered satellites that can each manage large numbers of directed power beams. Though maybe that would be a non starter due to the large number of non-civilian applications.
Do you know PPK and his work? He's been at the cutting edge of web-standards and implementations for at least 12 years if my memory serves me correctly.

>And you'll get exactly what you want. //

If he wants to avoid the web being badly negatively effected by short term views of current browser companies and standards bodies then he won't get what he wants by sticking his head in the sand and ignoring the direction he sees things going.

If this were the writing of a small time web-dev (like myself) then I think your comment would work; but I'm assuming PPK is coming from a position of experience that's given him an almost unique overview of the direction of browser and standards development vs. the historic "feel" and integrity of the web.

PPK is doing the equivalent of saying "let's stop and ask for directions [on our car journey]" and you're saying "no, let's just keep driving I'm sure we'll get to where we want to go".

He's up against it as, to my mind, cautious development doesn't serve the needs of corporations and so won't happen.

>"We’re pushing the web forward to emulate native more and more, but we can’t out-native native." (OP) //

I find it funny that web pages are trying to be native apps and many mobile apps are shipping when they're ostensibly just web pages.

tl;dr I think the OP has more to say, and that it's more important, than you're giving credit for.
The biggest eye-opener to me was the "Instinctive Drowning Response" article shared a few days ago. So few people notice someone drowning, even when only feet away. I feel it's a bit more obvious when you're further away.

Is this in any way related or inspired by that post?

/Start edit

>Inspired by this hackernews thread: can you notice who's drowning in the pool before the lifeguard does?

Answered my own question by reading the About on the Github. :D

/End edit

This is a great thing to share on Facebook (for those who have it). It's one of the lessons that really sticks with someone, because of how terrifying the reality of drowning really is. So thank you for sharing/making it.

Also for the timer "score", might I suggest clarifying it a bit with "faster/slower than the lifeguard"? I was a bit confused if my time was +0.82s past the lifeguard noticing" or "0.82s faster". I had to 'play' a second time and purposefully click late to figure it out.

>Nicely done. +0.82s
agreed, and this is the whole reason the argument is academic. strong ai, once developed, will be the ultimate dual-use technology. one must not only deny a strong ai access to arms, one must also deny it access to anything/anyone that might help it become freed from the constraints preventing it from obtaining, using, or directing the use of arms. this is essentially the super well known thought experiment fleshed out in Ex Machina. only one solution: ban ALL strong ai. good luck with that.
How to use Compose.io API to dynamically create databases using Node.js
Even when people would be strictly better off accepting a deal, they refuse it if they feel it is unfair: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimatum_game
Well apples are quite aerodynamic. Electric car by Apple, in shape of an Apple!? Revolutionary!
Good God, and they'll be asking money for it :-D
Mr. Vyukov is a beast; you should just post an issue on github and politely ask; I bet he'd enjoy implementing.
Sir Came to my college, when he was being a President, He asked the students a question,

I am standing the 73th orbit of the earth rotating to the sun, then what is my age?

Many young scientists replied the correct answer.

Feeling proud of him, truely inspiring leader
> the only cross platform UI experiment that has 'worked' on any significant level.

Users do not care about cross-platform compatibility, at all. They only care that it works on their platform. As developers, we should be cheering for a diversity of widely-popular, mutually-incompatible platforms because there will be more work for developers to port the iOS version to Android to Windows, etc.

The only people who should be upset about cross-platform compatibility issues are budget-conscious managers and unfortunate OSS devs.
I would say 1990. Because Painkiller is the most metal album ever ...
Virgin Galactic spacecraft crash 'due to braking error'
Well, Java has succeeded, too. Look at Minecraft.
> GPS signals don't work underground do they?

They probably wouldn't. But you also don't necessarily need GPS to do this. Have someone survey it topside, use that data and a compass underground.
Tesla's profit margin on their cars is something like 28%. I don't understand how this "they lose money on every car they sell" myth got started or how it sticks around. Where would all the money come from to be able to waste it like that?
Gitxiv – Collaborative Open Computer Science
I think that "Dying Fetus" on a anti abortion website will be fun :)