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by amirmc 11y ago
Yeah, I noticed that too for one on my submissions. I guess HN changed how it deals with resubmission.
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by amirmc 11y ago
We've a curated set of Pioneer Projects for MirageOS [1], where more established contributors have agreed to act as mentors for newcomers. It's worked really well for us! One of the unexpected benefits was that we could quickly ta
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by amirmc 11y ago
I've described it by saying unikernels are constructed by library operating systems. ie, the unikernel is the artefact but the libOS is what you (as a dev) actually work with. The first line of the Wikipedia page is written this way -
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by amirmc 11y ago
> "You lose some of the convenience of management of containers in order to get this." Not necessarily... http://unikernel.org/blog/2015/unikernels-meet-docker/
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by amirmc 11y ago
Depends on where you imagine the work to be. I tend to think of unikernels as having to 'front-load' more of the work. That's why you can treat the end artefact as almost disposable. With a traditional stack, it may be easier
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by amirmc 11y ago
There was a recent post about about Unikernels and Docker [1] (that post is also linked in the OP). [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10585404
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by amirmc 11y ago
Not yet (sorry) but will do soon!
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by amirmc 11y ago
I do see what you mean but asking people to re-write all the things isn't a successful strategy to achieve mass adoption. Being able to build your unikernel (micro)services using legacy things and then swapping out certain services
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by amirmc 11y ago
I think because they play very nicely with legacy software, without needing any modifications. i.e the demo has unmodified, off-the-shelf versions of nginx, mysql and php. The other unikernel projects (i.e. MirageOS and HaLVM), take a clea
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by amirmc 11y ago
We'll be releasing the code sometime tomorrow afternoon. We need a bit of extra time to clear out the unused code, make a readme, and also get some rest. :) I'll add a link to the blog post when it's live.
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by amirmc 11y ago
For those interested in unikernels. We just launched a community website — http://unikernel.org
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Unikernels, meet Docker(unikernel.org)
120 points by amirmc 11y ago|31 comments
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by amirmc 11y ago
[ To avoid any confusion, the submitter is not the author of the post :) ] I don't really understand the question about the stack. Where it belongs should only limited by its features. It certainly can be used by people developing
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by amirmc 11y ago
Seems to be fine now.
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by amirmc 11y ago
There was some discussion about Irmin just over a year ago [1] and it's been steadily improving ever since. The Readme on the repo [2] lists the bleeding-edge users too, so you can see examples of how it's been applied -- (note t
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by amirmc 11y ago
Reading that just indicates that the world needs social media , not Twitter per se. Many of the quotes there seem to indicate that Twitter's role was exaggerated.
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by amirmc 11y ago
> "No-one expects companies to pay the full whack of tax." Why? I don't understand why this is considered acceptable. I'm expected to pay the full whack of tax (income, VAT, etc), but somehow it's taken as give
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by amirmc 11y ago
I read a fascinating book on tax havens and their pernicious influence on global affairs. I thoroughly recommend it to anyone who wants to understand more about how such systems work -- especially those who don't think tax havens are a
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by amirmc 11y ago
In that case, why would anyone remove money from a corporate entity? All those who could afford it would just act through corporate avatars. I think this already happens to some degree.
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by amirmc 11y ago
I didn't mean to imply that the claims were not strong. Just that they're more careful/specific (which is a good thing for this kind of work). Also, saying a piece of software is "unhackable" is akin to saying a shi
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by amirmc 11y ago
They also have http://sel4.com -- why wouldn't they use the .com as the canonical site instead of a more obscure .systems? (I say this because sel4.systems is linked from within the original article). Also, the link http:
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OCaml's 20th Anniversary(sympa.inria.fr)
166 points by amirmc 11y ago|34 comments
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by amirmc 11y ago
To be fair to the article, it should be obvious that it's about SoundCloud by the end of the first paragraph (& thus the 'we' refers to 'us at SoundClound'). I do agree that the title here is out of context but
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by amirmc 11y ago
Folks interested in this might like to know that ContainerCon also had a session on Containers and Unikernels. http://sched.co/3YUJ A write up and audio from that session is also available. http://thenewstack.io&
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The Comparison and Context of Unikernels and Containers(thenewstack.io)
1 points by amirmc 11y ago|0 comments
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by amirmc 11y ago
Previous thread at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10115013
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by amirmc 11y ago
There's also been some discussion about this on the MirageOS mailing list [1]. There are definitely operational things to work on (e.g. more convenient deployment to AWS, amongst other things). One of the best ways to get feedback on t
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by amirmc 11y ago
> "And, facebook, imo, is more of "get shit done", rather than "break shit". This was more of the latter." He didn't 'break' anything.
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by amirmc 11y ago
> "Look at all of the other social networks that tried to solve this in the past and failed." FB has a network effect, which a a major reason all those products/services get used. However, it's not really fair to i
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Just-in-Time Summoning of Unikernels (v0.2)(skjegstad.com)
25 points by amirmc 11y ago|4 comments

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