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Cargo cults are behaviors that arise from observing something and then misunderstanding it being caused by a specific thing you control.

They first came into prominence during WW2, when native tribes would observe food and other goods literally dropping from the sky for no apparent reason. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult#Pacific_cults_of_Wo...
You're really going to have a hard time finding something that satisfies your 3 requirements (open source, high-speed and capable of what a Juniper Netscreen can do). OpenBSD can be tuned to operate really well, hit maybe 80 or 90% feature parity with those Netscreens, but the performance won't even come close to what a Netscreen can do -- Juniper fabs their own ASICs and a general von Neumann x86 won't come close to being able to packet switching at those speeds.

You might be able to get close in performance with your high-end Altera's and Xilinx's gear, but that certainly won't be cheap and AFAIK the FPGA synthesis tools are still closed source -- so you're not going to get an 'open source' from top-to-bottom solution at all 3 levels (Silicon, firmware, OS and packet switching). It's arguably more trust-worthy than buying Juniper/Cisco which has complete control of the stack, from silicon to software, but you'll be paying through the nose either way.

The standard Intel e1000's running OpenBSD and libpacket might be the best trade-off you're going to get in price/performance (again, if you make the concession that Intel isn't backdooring on: a) the firmware and/or drivers for the e1000s, or b) somewhere along the controller bus path -> PHY on the processor). This whitepaper [1] re: OmniPath + Xeon/PHI architecture boasts brilliant numbers (page 7 for an architecture summary, column 2 for the network switching summary, page 8 for the benchmark numbers). Again, not open-source at the hardware level, but the drivers, libraries and OS can all be audited. And at those rates of transmission, I'm guessing you could use physical probing along each component to see if any deep-packet tomfoolery is occurring, as the latency increase would be detectable, and you can't just add an extra login password at that level.

Tyan's OpenPOWER compliant stack will run on BSD and other than the processor (which uses an IBM POWER8) pretty much uses jellybean components-- so you get what I'm going to coin as "security through vendor diversity" from now.[2]

It comes down to how tightly your tin-foil hat has been sized I suppose. The upside is right now there's a huge open-source hardware revolution going on. OpenCores' Virtex based RISC stuff is available and that's top-to-bottom open source, and if you were really motivated and had the engineering know-how, ASIC runs can be done for under a million.

[1] https://ramcloud.atlassian.net/wiki/download/attachments/224...

[2] http://www.tyan.com/campaign/openpower/index.html
I'm curious if they're including caffeine in that number.
I tend to find that shorter, putatively simpler bash scripts are often shorter because they don't do adequate (or, at times, any) checking of error conditions. It is deceptively easy to write a terse shell script when you assume that every command, or pipeline of commands, will work exactly as you expect every time.

In practice, even simple operations like "rm", or "mkdir", or even "cd" can fail in new and exciting ways. The blanket use of "errexit" and "pipefail" is really only the bare minimum of error handling; scripts that simply _stop_ as soon as a command exits non-zero are not generally an operable product that somebody unfamiliar with the innards of the system can be expected to work with.

It is also unfortunately easy to miss out on putting quotes around expansions, or to get caught out by the somewhat peculiar behaviour of variable scoping in functions. Some improved constructs are available in more recent versions of bash, but if the goal is to be _portable_ (without also shipping your target bash binary) you may not be able to use some or any of them.

The bash "language" (such as it is) is antiquated and clunky, because it seeks to be backwards compatible with the rich tapestry of history that is the Bourne shell. A truly robust, operable program written in this environment often does not come out a whole lot shorter (if it is shorter at all) than a program written in another language with better facilities.
I know what a cargo cult is but use of the term would only be appropriate if that is the core premise of the article.
Some of the later back-and-forth stuff states that even for the tests they can do, they were using third party equipment for "scaling" reasons. They're not good at PR and this reporter isn't good at getting answers. What a mess.
They never once said they were not using existing machines to do these tests, not once, they only spoke about the quantity of the sample needed. Using the same analogy, saying I have a great story to tell you but then reading Moby Dick isn't necessarily cheating, because Moby Dick is a great story :).
The company seems to be grasping at straws in desperate attempts at damage control now that everyone seems to be catching on that the company is perhaps more hype than substance. Certainly not the first time in business history that a product has failed to live up to initial expectations, but if theres a feeling that people were misled about what was real vs. conceptual then it can get ugly quite quick.
Np. And right. I hated to be pedantic but outright dismissing the fact that there are exceptions to the compensation rule is wrong.

edit: wording
More words makes a stronger point.
I've thought for a long time that a huge amount of business advice is cargo cultism, since the actual underlying determinants of success are so complex and hard to pick apart.

Anything far beyond the basics of value, product market fit, making something that costs less than you can sell it for, etc. is a bit suspect, especially if it starts to wax hyperbolic about ephemeral character traits and other wooey things.
Right, it's not cheating or lying, just kinda misleading.
Not to get all tinfoil hat, this sudden press attack on Theranos seems so synchronized.
This. Although we pay attention to them because they're mostly job postings. I doubt most publishers can post those kind of ads effectively :)
You really have to experience this to fully appreciate it. Social contagion is real.
Probably not. That would be absurdly low. The only people I know who purposely abstain from it are the (rather few) hyperreligious students or those with things like bipolar disorder.

In my experience (at a pretty intense school), 1 in 6 wouldn't be surprising if they mean "at least once this semester" or something similar.
>Edison machines would sometimes produce “radically different results” for the same patients, the former employee alleged. Referring to a thyroid test known as thyroid-stimulating hormone, the employee wrote that “a patient would swing between” hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism, or too little of the hormone and too much, when the test was repeated the same day.

This sounds really bad. When you have this huge amount of uncertainty in results, it calls into question their whole finger prick blood sampling methodology. I'm starting to think that it's impossible to get an accurate blood work from a finger prick only.
Isn't the name on the relevant "git blame" (or equivalent) line irrelevant unless the team signs commits with GPG (or equivalent)? It's trivial to forge the author.
I find it most interesting that it's apparently no problem to find doctors willing to prescribe ADD medicines to healthy university students. (I can't imagine black-market Adderall being affordable for students.) Is there no sort of oversight here at all?
Well, if there's a bright center to the universe, then the planet that it's farthest from.

The "spoilers" for the new Star Wars film aren't a big deal. I knew them and the "spoiled" scenes still had a big impact on me, because that's what good film making is all about.
You realize that Pixar movies are made by a brain-trust of intelligent, empathetic, and cultured people, right?

None of that means that they are immune to their cultural and corporate biases and zeitgeist, but you seem to be implying something much more intentional and predatory. Why?
Have you heard about the Forer Effect? Horoscopes are written to be convincing to gullible readers.

http://skepdic.com/forer.html
That's cool. Good for you. You've decided what you do and do not care about before seeing a movie. Now let other people do the same.
It also makes more sense with Star Wars (1977), a simple and universal story (a fairytale, even) than say, Robocop.
A little background on the quote about eggs of Columbus: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_of_Columbus
I still don't get how people think that light grey text on a white background is a good idea ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I don't know. I loved some Disney movies and appreciated their art growing up but never bought the action figures or anything. I also went to disneyland once and disneyworld once to check them out, but I went to six flags twice. Oh, and I visited disneyland while in Paris, to show the girl I was with from Moldova, who had never been.

I guess maybe it's because I'm a child of immigrants. I don't see what the big deal is. Everyone commercializes and ties stuff in. Many if you are probably users of the whole Apple ecosystem.
Agreed, they should have been upfront on what technology they developed in house and what it can and cannot do. A simple table outlining that could have cleared up the air.
Black market Adderall is totally affordable, considering the potential cost of not having it.

A single class can easily cost over a thousand dollars in per-credit tuition, never mind the compounding losses from being behind schedule to finish your curriculum.

$5 for the last 8 hour burst of productivity needed to avoid that? Any sane person would make that trade, especially if it's taken rarely enough that it won't damage your brain too much.

Honestly the kids who do have scripts are more concerning than the ones who take it once or twice a semester.
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I have been thinking that over the past couple of days too. In Japan, Disney everything is literally everywhere. How do you think that work out? Split into parks and movies?
Hey Dave, long time no talk.

I can very much agree with both your points.

The first place I used Confluence/JIRA because they were recommended by a new employee or perhaps a friend of someone at Atlassian, and getting the $10 trial licences.

Since then I've moved jobs several times, and those two products in particular have been the baseline comparison for whatever tools are in place.

The biggest stumbling block I find is often the licensing - So many times managers have been reluctant to fork out for it.
I don't know what major project you are talking which uses these features. I'm not talking about small projects by John Joes, I'm talking about LARGE infrastructure projects. For example, Android SDK is extensively used in Java world, and the Android SDK has tons of Interfaces as either arguments or class helpers which can be substantially overhauled by using these features.
This actually is a huge pet peeve of mine. It's most obvious with extendingl extremely specific needs like vegetarians for example. It drives me nuts when I read yelp reviews that rate a restaurant low because they don't offer good vegetarian alternatives. It is obviously an issue, but it should be trivial for yelp to exclude that recite from the rating that they show to non-vegetarians. Less obvious examples that are a related but different issues are reviews by people who clearly don't know what they are talking about. Looking at reviews of high end Spanish restaurants in the Basque country, I really don't care about reviews that start out with "This was my first visit to a restaurant with a Michelin star...". I'm not trying to be snobby, but I'd much rather have the review by someone who had been to a ton of then in the same area weighed much higher.

Edit: I wonder if there is a great opportunity for some disruption here. Well be tough do to overcome yelps moat. I would love to work on this!
Is the only way to beat Disney to build another Pixar?
They're trying to emulate Putin, perhaps.
If you really want blatant commercialization, see Pokemon, Digimon, Yu Gi Oh etc. The latter at least had an interesting plot, and deeper characters. But both are basically cheap adaptations of Japanese anime -- draw a few frames with action lines, sell millions of trading cards.

Compare that to, say, Spiderman for FOX Kids in the 90s. Every scene was carefully animated and the plot was deep.

And to prove it's not just nostalgia, there were cheap shows back then too, like all the Power Rangers knockoffs. Anyone remember "Samurai Pizzacats"? Kind of funny, but mostly repetitive power rangers formula.

Even Japanese anime knockoffs were better before -- like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

There is still good stuff today but it's few and far between. I'm inclined to think the business objectives have changed more than the kids' tastes. It's like people used to play immersive 3d games, real time strategy games, and now so many play addictive pay-to-accelerate casual nonsense like Farmville or Boom Beach or whatever. Did people simply change their tastes to get ripped off? No, it was directed by business. Actual quality is secondary now.
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From a very practical standpoint - obfuscation and complexity also makes it more likely that the code will be broken in the future. Not broken like "discovered and disclosed" but broken like: "it doesn't work any more".

I mean - it's not like the unit tests are going to contain check_backdoor_works() (etc).

So the simpler and more straight forward you can get your backdoor snuck in - the longer you can know it will remain, and keep working.
I don't think taking JS out of small UI pieces is a 'victory' for those who don't like JS, since the main engine behind the JS trend is building apps with 'native experience,' single page style apps, and that's a web development paradigm in itself centered on JS.

However I do believe JS will lose most of its popularity when web technology gets even faster. The slight performance boosts that JS gives you now - which is the predominant reason it's become so popular - won't matter as much; if things are so fast that you don't need an ajax architecture, you won't need front end JS frameworks.
I agree that most people just use REST as a buzzword today but don't really know what it is.

As I remember REST was popularized by Rails a few years back. If you go back and look at the railsconf talk by Hansson in 2006 you can see that the Rails people just wanted something that handled CRUD operations. However, one of the drivers behind REST was to provide web services for machine to machine communication - something that was traditionally done by WSDL files in SOAP. The Rails people didn't really have much of a need for HATEOAS, because they were not interested in replacing WSDL files. Primarily they wanted to get away from the 800 pound gorilla that was SOAP services (that back in 2005 was what every Enterprise Java web app was doing). As a result the focus was primarily on PUT/GET/POST/DELETE.

I've seen a lot of "REST" API's that are actually HTTP/RPC API's or quasi-REST API's that mix REST for simple things, but then begin exposing RPC calls as the developers ability to manage complexity breaks down. I've never seen anyone actually using HATEOAS yet (maybe i've been isolated??)

Usually when your boss says "And it has to have a REST API!!" That means that 1. It must use the internet, 2. It must return JSON, 3. It uses URLs to do things. Basically if the above is true it's a RESTful API. I think that most developers actually believe that are making a REST API even when they are not - simply because they don't really know.

Your right about being the new XML buzzword though. 10 years ago if you did web services having WSDL, XSTL, SOAP and XML on a resume meant you were the shiz. Today you have REST and AngularJS on your resume if you do web development. Meh :0
Confluence/JIRA if you're self hosting will set you back $10 for 10 users.

At that price point, some people are willing to fork out for that and set it up as a long running demo/test-case for a particular product without needing to get management/finance departments involved (which is often a stumbling block).

It's not 'freemium' but it's close enough.

That's usually enough of a wedge in the door to get management interested in a wider deployment.
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I couldn't disagree more. Everything in Theranos' marketing and PR collateral was all about finger-pricks and nanotainers. And it was all one big fat lie. You couldn't pay me to take a blood test at one of their facilities.
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It seems a gentle enough introduction and yet not over-simplifying.
I think your comment was informative, your manner of linking was fine, and that you should ignore the downvote(s) in this case. I guess it might be slightly clearer to use the full "amazon.com" in the URL, and I suppose someone might argue that it's safer to indent it two spaces so it's plain text rather than an active link, but seems good to me as it is. Maybe someone clicked the wrong button, didn't like something else about your wording, or was just in a bad mood.
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i do highly recommend that book, but yeah, i'm not sure it exists in ebook format. Though, personally, when it comes to dense reading material, I prefer a book or even pdf that's a bit easier to page through.
I believe the usage of the term among science/technology folks has a lot to do with Feynman's use of the term:

http://www.lhup.edu/~DSIMANEK/cargocul.htm
git blame was figurative, I don't even know if they use git, I basically meant the person who is responsible for injecting that line (if they ever find out). And as you said, yes, the first thing someone would do who would insert that is of course put someone else's name there.
I thought a link tag sends a request to get the contents of the href attribute, and then the server sends back the file or a 304 header, if it's cached. That seems to indicate that the server is getting a request from the browser. Also, isn't Google caching AMP pages on their own domains? I've read that Google doesn't send people to your site, but just to a copy on their own site.

When I try the demo for the NY Times, I see a banner there that takes me back to the search results. Did NY Times decide that they want to use that above-the-fold real estate to send people back to Google.com?

What specific code enables or disables this giant back button on an AMP webpage: http://imgur.com/GpBqgnx

AMP is a somewhat-forced restriction on what people can publish on their sites. Providing guidelines on how to make mobile pages faster would be a more reasonable solution. One could argue that no one is "forced" to use AMP, but if AMP pages appear at the top of the SERPs then that is a form of coercion, since fewer people will scroll beneath the fold.
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"not the first time..."

What other product/company has not lived up at this scale, and with this capitalization?
And there is this great story in Wired on the history and popularity of this game, especially at tech conferences: http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2010/03/features/wer...
I assumed OS research would include improving user experience, performance and security.
Wish they could break the rules and get away with it like Uber. I guess the sky racket, unlike the city-by-city taxi rackets, is still too big for the Valley to tackle.
I believe Theranos was almost on to something, and it didn't pan out. You know, science.

So they used smoke-and-mirrors instead. Countless startups have used the same strategy - using hubris to hide failure long enough to either fix problems or get sold.

Most startups don't mess with people's lives. Theranos deserves every bit of the scrutiny they're under now.
Fair point. I was going to say Clinkle, but they were no where near this valuation.
Thank you for bringing that up. I realized the other day I don't know what "cargo cult" means despite having looked it up many times. It's one of those words.
This is a rather shallow article with barely any real points. Talking about all those externalities only serves to create noise rather than support any arguments against the ad model. You can just as easily argue that images and CSS should be removed to save even more bandwidth and processing power. Why even go online at all actually when you can get a newspaper for a few cents?

Here's the reality - We only have 2 options to enable the value exchange of content: direct (via you moving funds to the publisher) or in-direct (monetizing through ads). It's a binary choice. It's one or the other, that's it. There's no magic 3rd option that's available (today).

Here are a few reasons why advertising is still a better model:

- It's fast. Faster than money transfer.

- It's efficient. Money is not cheap to transfer, even today.

- It's passive. No mental energy expended or decision making required.

- It's anonymous. No need for payment details or 3rd party to handle funds.

- It's secure. Again no need for payment information, there's not much ads can do. (Malware is a different problem.)

- It's accessible. Your wealth doesn't determine the amount of content you can get. Everyone can access everything equally.

This is fundamentally a question of human behavior and the common reaction is to take things for free when possible. People just do not value content that highly, if at all. You can already see the reaction to rising rates for netflix and spotify even though they provide so much value, certainly more than an equally priced cup of coffee.

Add to that the amount of willpower and decisioning it requires to judge whether a piece of content is worth it or not and it's clear that this is not a scalable system. Perhaps a "cable subscription" for the internet with time-based billing for each domain might be something that works as a direct-payment option in the future but this is a massive technical, security and privacy challenge the way things are now.

I do agree that ads have gotten out of hand recently - however this is an implementation problem. Regulation and standards and enforcement are what's needed to fix this. It has nothing to do with the ad model itself which is still the most universally scalable and viable monetization system for content.
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Why have so many people down-voted this? Lots of major news outlets openly regard the development of an Apple EV as factual. And one can see why after reviewing the evidence. Is this all wrong? What am I missing?
Taxi prices have nothing to do with the availability of plates - taxi rates are fixed, not demand based.

Lower availability of plates would be linked somewhat to higher profits for taxis though (since it should increase their utilisation if the taxi is deployed in high demand areas).

Taxi plate owners did complain at the time the supply was increased (iirc saying mainly that there were already too many taxis), but there was little they could do other than make some noise.

I'm a Sydneysider and semi-regular taxi user, and given how far out I live from work - well aware of how expensive Sydney taxis are.