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Really? I'd have thought it would be higher. Although this figure does fit with things I've heard before.

amirmcon Why are so many BASE jumpers dying?

> The singular reason people are dying is because they're pushing the boundaries of proximity flying, not because beginners are accidentally stalling once they're too close.

Well put. As noted in the article, the margins for error (esp in wingsuit BASE) are becoming ever tighter.

amirmcon Why are so many BASE jumpers dying?

Not really a key paragraph. The article states that jumpers of all abilities are going in (dying). This is just one possible reason related to novices.

amirmcon The Cuban CDN

And in the wifi hotspots, there'll be a separate network and you pay a dude 1CUC to type in the password (access for 1hr). It's obviously not legit but it works and people get online this way.

amirmcon Dollar Shave Club and the Disruption of Everything

I wouldn't say any of those businesses have upended the markets they're in, nor driven 'efficiency' (what's 'efficiency' in terms of dating, anyway?).

From your comment, it seems you'd agree ('incremental improvements').

amirmcon NFV Platforms with MirageOS Unikernels

> So a DNS server can basically take an incoming request, boot up a unikernel in 20 ms, reply with the unikernel IP, and the newly started unikernel will receive the actual request data shortly thereafter.

You might be interested in our paper on Just in time summoning of unikernels (Jitsu). It's exactly what you describe — http://unikernel.org/files/2015-nsdi-jitsu.pdf

There's also some speculative stuff I wrote last year about demand-driven clouds (before I heard of 'serverless') — http://amirchaudhry.com/heroku-for-unikernels-pt2

amirmcon NFV Platforms with MirageOS Unikernels

It's not abandoned AFAIK, it's a small team that does consulting and they have to prioritise work for customers. When that coincides with Ling they can make progress. I've heard this from more than one unikernel/LibOS project.

amirmcon The Unikernel Compilation and Deployment Platform

I'd also be very interested to know more about your use of unikernels and the tooling around them. Would you mind getting in touch? Email is in my profile.

amirmcon Gone Full Unikernel

See the discussion about that post over at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10953766

amirmcon Improving Docker with Unikernels: Introducing HyperKit, VPNKit and DataKit

If you're asking about Docker for Mac/Windows, an earlier blog post has a few details.

https://blog.docker.com/2016/03/docker-for-mac-windows-beta/

In essence, it's a much nicer experience using the app and since it's improving all the time (still in beta, fwiw).

amirmcon Withings acquired by Nokia

> No way they would get away with that, especially as they're both European companies and consumer protections laws...

I'm curious. Why would you think they couldn't get away with it? I don't have one of these scales but I'd guess that they function as ordinary scales just fine (i.e. accurate readings), without the backend stuff. The 'cloud features' are probably under some ToS that lets them do whatever they want (like shut it down). The fact that people bought it for exactly that feature doesn't seem to have much bearing.

amirmcon Understanding and Hardening Linux Containers [pdf]

Yeah, there are a number of statements about unikernels that are ... somewhat inaccurate.

amirmcon My Biggest Regret as a Programmer

I've been in many situations where people thought that the solution lay in something technical, whereas the actual issue was social/cultural. In the worst case, time and energy is spent on the technical thing, which then simply fails when it hits the 'market' (so to speak). In the best case, the technical solution papers over a few cracks and merely kicks the can down the road.

amirmcon An OCaml manifesto – Problems and what's needed for widespread adoption

You should checkout the work that KC has done over in OCaml Labs. Start with his blog [1] — there are things around Multicore, Effects and Profiling in there.

[1] http://kcsrk.info/blog/

amirmcon Docker for Mac and Windows Beta

A lot more than just one ;)

amirmcon Docker for Mac and Windows Beta

That's a left over item from the alpha testing. It's now been removed.

amirmcon Docker for Mac and Windows Beta

Hi folks, we had an unexpected issue while were pushing an update to site (removing the NDA requirement). It should be fixed now and you can sign up as usual. If you're using something like ghostery, you may need to pause it for this site as we using Marketo to deal with sign ups.

amirmcon Docker for Mac and Windows Beta

Yes, we're using Marketo for the sign ups and Ghostery blocks that.

amirmcon Docker for Mac and Windows Beta

We're using Marketo to track all the signups and I get a blank screen too if I use ghostery and the like.

Would you mind trying again but allowing Marketo?

amirmcon Docker for Mac and Windows Beta

This announcement is about a beta for native apps on Mac and Windows. The idea is to allow you to work with Linux containers on your development machine of choice. The images/containers you build there are just as deployable elsewhere — i.e. production — as they were before (when people had to use docker-machine, Virtual Box, etc).

amirmcon Docker for Mac and Windows Beta

Please do check out the documentation if you're a current docker-machine user. The link will be in the invite email that you'll receive along with the beta token.

amirmcon Docker for Mac and Windows Beta

From the post:

"Many of the OS-level integration innovations will be open sourced to the Docker community when these products are made generally available later this year."

amirmcon Docker for Mac and Windows Beta

As mentioned in another comment here [1], we've been in touch with the author of dlite during this beta. His feedback was very useful!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11352621

amirmcon Docker for Mac and Windows Beta

We're onboarding people over time so that we can we can iterate on the beta as we go. The questionnaire is only asking for basic details (Name, Company, which version are you interested in). You do need a Docker Hub ID first.

amirmcon OCaml 4.03: Everything else

I think that does a disservice to the much greater number of people who are not at Jane Street but contributing useful code and libraries. You also seem to imply that Jane Street is the one 'bringing multicore to OCaml' but that's not the case.

Jane Street certainly contributes a huge amount to the ecosystem, both in terms of code and other support, but they're not the only people pouring effort into it.

amirmcon OCaml 4.03: Everything else

Many commercial companies (and startups) use OCaml, eg Facebook, Bloomberg, etc

https://ocaml.org/learn/companies.html

amirmcon Fixing the Inequity of Startup Equity

> Options have been this way since the 80s. What's changed? Nobody is examining that as closely as they should. ... we should all possess a certain conservatism, a healthy skepticism to changing systems that have been stable for a long time.

The same argument could be applied to the way VCs used to do business with founders (with respect to tactics, terms sheets, etc). Arguably, that was stable for a long time too (but seems to have changed in recent years). It's just a reformulation of "We've always done it this way".

amirmcon A better inliner for OCaml, and why it matters

That doesn't mean there isn't work taking place. Here's a recent video where KC talks about it.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PLnqUlCo055hU46uoONmhYGUbYA...

Edit: and there's also more than one repo out there.

amirmcon A better inliner for OCaml, and why it matters

> nothing more solid than "Coming Soon(tm)".

That's untrue. There's way more out there than 'coming soon'. There's a repo with code, talks at the OCaml Workshop and blog posts describing it.

This isn't the kind of project where you want to 'move fast and break things'.

amirmcon A better inliner for OCaml, and why it matters

Have you seen any of the work on OCaml multicore? KC's blog posts talk about it e.g. http://kcsrk.info/ocaml/multicore/2015/05/20/effects-multico...