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Like all good anti-technology-X articles, it's heavy on the drama and light on the why you must drop everything and stop using technology X. Docker is fine, way better than the 'good enough' bar most organizations employ when selecting a tool for production.

This seems like it should be a much bigger deal. They're using a small training set (they describe it as 'curriculum learning') to create robust little programs that do some fundamental stuff at a decently high abstraction level. What am I not considering?

I suffer from deep bouts of depression. Lately I've had to go back and forth with myself about going to the hospital when things get bad, but now I'm just scared even more. I was afraid that not going to the ER would kill me, but now... it's like fuck, who will help you? When you have a mental health emergency, the police will shoot you, fellow citizens will ignore you, the hospital may or may not treat you, and now they might even kill you. With mental health, it's so important for the patient to feel safe, and if a hospital isn't safe then, well, I dunno. Humans are always making other humans suffer needlessly, it's awful.

I worked at a large company which in its quest to deploy agile everywhere introduced an innovation sprint. The actual concept went well, and we even had some great show-and-tell sessions from it, but absolutely zero things created during those sprints were allowed to ship. So in the end it was more of a blow-off valve for engineers before sending them back to another 10 weeks of normal engineering drudgery, while their innovative projects collected dust on a manager's shelf somewhere. If these were research spikes I feel like they would have gotten a little more respect from the higher-ups.

We can't just be consumers here, even though there is no money changing hands. This goes beyond the issue of trusting their code. We should send a clear message that 'dirty bits' are not welcome in community-built software. In effect, this is the only punishment you can dole out to an open source project--that is, choosing not to adopt it. Our 'ethics' as computer scientists are increasingly under fire and I think it's wise to know when to say 'no', especially when the hand that feeds is also the hand that beats you mercilessly.

The iPhone already supports various 'filters' through its Accessibility settings. I use the 'Low Light' filter every night, which allows the screen to go darker than usual. If they were to just add a low-light redshifted filter, that would be fine for most people I think.

However, and to f.lux's point, people should expect their devices will keep their health in mind. I believe Apple is worried that opening up first class support for this sort of functionality is an admission that blue light is hazardous to one's sleep health, which could open them up to various liabilities.

Let's not forget that the inhabitants of this website are almost certainly the kind of people who saw through the noise and got their education on their own terms. As we raise our kids we help them tip-toe around all this garbage, but most parents have no tools at their disposal to review and revise and push back against bad practices in their child's education. The issue of education in this country needs to be addressed, but the system has to serve all types, including children who's parents are unable to provide alternative structures and insights and 'hacks' to get by.

That didn't add much (I wasn't trying), but these threads always seem to turn into an echo chamber of "I got by without doing any homework!" because, let's face it, here we are. What is the 98% solution, I wonder, versus the 2% version? Of all that I've seen, it starts with better, smarter, well-paid, un-stressed, empathetic teachers. Students too afraid to think? Too pinned down to discover how best to learn for themselves? I just want to give all these poor kids a hug and tell them how smart they really are--it makes me so sad.

In a (brief) defense of Docker Hub, it has gotten WAY better in just the last 6 months. UX is sufficient for the number of times you interact with the website, versus command line. Still it is very slow and this has an impact on my continuous deployment ambitions.

In a world where we routinely ship 0.x tools to production, it may feel a bit peculiar to see 2.0 as being the first 'production ready' version for Docker's suite of tools, but that very well may be the reality.

I need a developer on retainer for some personal projects, starting at something like 10 hours per month, for 6 months. Full Stack is preferred, but the main priority will be front end development for some small websites. Other work will involve some application development in JS (node), Go, etc. This is a retainer! I will try to keep you busy but some months you may just collect a check.

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There are health and environmental costs to fracking which are not being adequately addressed, and which are unsurprisingly ignored by this article. China was able to get a leg up through dirty coal and oil operations, but there are consequences to this. Some of their cities are today near uninhabitable, some are just unbearably smoggy. We definitely do not want to pat ourselves on the back for an economic boom that scars our country's land and water resources and affects the air water of countless individuals (citizens!). If we're going to build our economy on fracking, it should be heavily regulated. No entity should have the right to pump unknown chemicals into the ground with impunity and without oversight. And even with oversight--BP Horizon and every other avoidable oil disaster of the last 10 years.

One thing I've never understood (but would still like to) is where does the imperative to build more and faster come from? I live in Berkeley, am very nearly priced out at this point, but see no reason why the community is required to take in more people. Permitting snd process ensures a snail's pace for new construction here, but from the perspective of those that live here (and most have rent control) why should they rush to grow?

All I'm saying is, market prices reflect supply and demand, but they also balance the demand which would otherwise threaten to overwhelm the place. Who am I to say 'I want to live here! Make it happen!!' We could be building the city of our dreams, of the future, a mere 30 miles away.

What if the FDA enforced a rule where only one company can have an active trial? Then the first to file shifts to the FDA and the bearer has a monopoly for a few years, including the lead time before another company can complete a subsequent trial.

What about Eric Chaisson's Cosmic Evolution, Goodwin's Signs of Life, Shrodinger's What is Life?, Stuart Kauffman's At Home in the Universe? All of these books I've read which argue the same damn thing as this guy, so what's new? That last book by Kauffman is probably the most simialr, and I highly recommend it to those interested.

These articles need to go away. Burning Man has always featured wealthy participants. Radical Inclusion is one of the 10 basic principals of the event. We welcome ALL burners, whether you've flown in your private plane to the BRC airport (yes, we have our own airport), or you've rented an RV with your friends, or you've arrived by bus and are camping in a simple tent. Everyone makes their experience as they choose, and as they are able.

That being said, it's not cheap, and it's never been cheap. Getting out to the middle of nowhere tends to be like that. Your gear can get trashed, you might require a storage unit each year, the ticket is $350+...but you know what else is expensive? A European vacation, and quite frankly I'd rather go to Burning Man. :)

So yeah, don't believe what you read in these articles, which seem to pop up 5-10 times every year just before the burn. At nearly 70,000 attendees you would be hard pressed to make a general statement about any one group, including the "rich bay area tech millionaires" that are ruining the event. We welcome them with open arms! Let's hope they brought some cool gifts for everyone.

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If you can't see what all of these have in common, then you probably shouldn't call yourself a software developer.

It's just syntax, people.

I have been reading HN for half a year without ever bothering to login, but this post was so inspiring for me that I had to chime in and say 'thanks'. Never compromise. This is just what I needed.

As well, I really like the muscle metaphor. :)