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Well as the saying goes, "It is always new to someone." :-) And that is largely true. Here in the second decade of the 21st century people are getting funded who were blissfully unaware children in the dot com crash, or the semi-conductor recession, or the great social is the new webvan pullback.

A publication can get a lot of clicks and buzz from folks for who it is new, and so they report it as new.

But the articles are all part of the system which trains and educates entrepreneurs. It provides examples and stories of people who bring to market real solutions, those who bring "fad" solutions, and those essentially bring "me too" type solutions. This system also trains investors, where each cycle has a few winners which spawns some additional limited partners (or general partners) in various VC firms who also look at how their money is spent and where its going.

As much as it would be great, there isn't really a course of study you can take that will teach you this stuff, you kind of have to live through a cycle or two, absorbing all the experience you can. If you want to be able to really internalize and understand the stuff that someone like Danielle Morrill is talking about you need context, and the context comes from experience both in the good times and the bad times.

So to answer your question about the point of these articles, it is the same reason they teach freshman Calculus or Composition. Everyone needs to know this stuff and every year there are new people trying to learn it. The message that value is always appreciated over hype is pretty timeless but sometimes it takes a couple of cycles to really understand and distinguish between the two.
These aren't exactly comparable with Kubernetes. While there's overlap between the ultimate goals, we're fundamentally talking about two very different things.

Kubernetes, Mesos, Swarm, Fleet, Marathon belong in one category (orchestration tools).

Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Salt belong in another category (configuration management).
Here we go with this absurd argument again: "They're giving it away for free, so they can do whatever they want, and you can't complain." Sure, we're all free to develop software and dump it on the internet for everyone to use. Many people do, and most of it is useless and ignored. However people who want others to use their software, as I think the Python devs do, need to provide some value to their users. The value they get in return is less concrete, but it's there: reputation boosts, job opportunities, warm feelings from sharing, license to verbally abuse people on mailing lists.

Developers aren't obligated to please their users in exactly the same way that users aren't obligated to use their software. Just because there's no money, it doesn't mean there's no transaction, and popular free software is based on benefits to both parties.
I'm sure not the first one to ask -- can you share??
The really sad thing about this is that nature has a remedy for the grip of opiate addiction, iboga, yet it is illegal as well.
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Have you fond a better search engine? I keep failing to find what I need on DuckDuckGo or it's kin and having to go onto Google, where I find what I was looking for.

Of course, one can always suggest that I am just better attuned to Google (I have Google Fu from long experience with Google and wrongfully expect DuckDuckGo Fu to be the same skill and have not developed DuckDuckGo Fu).
Feinstein has never let the constitution stand in her way.
I had around a thousand of hosts and one small virtual machine, and my SSH
call to each and every one (and running something trivial, like `uptime') took
less than a minute in total. Though this was a custom script that used
Erlang's built-in SSH client, and had some unpleasant trouble when hitting the
limit on file descriptors (1024, bumped later to 4096 just because of that).
It annoys me often in articles that they switch between units in the same sentence. I often read things like "Less than 40% of people did this but an amazing two fifths of participants did that". Most people have no idea how to compare the two. I bet a lot of people don't know whether a 1000 milliseconds is more or less than eight seconds.
Yes, but the point is that you 're not going to brute-force this. If it's finite you can hope to approximate it. If it's not finite, you can't even approximate it.

Look- take Monte Carlo methods. You can sample a very big number of events and hope to get some useful information from that. If you sample infinity, though, what do you get? Infinity.
I always wondered what stopped the legislature passing laws that are unconstitutional, having it canceled a few years later by the supreme court and then passing a similar law again and having that take a few years in a large cycle. Unconstitutional laws basically become laws with informal sunsetting clauses.
I agree. She needs to have all of her personal information made public as an example of why nobody has anything to hide.
GoCD is very difficult to version-control and the interface is, to put it politely, in need of some love.

At Pivotal my colleagues working on Cloud Foundry poured a lot of engineering effort into making GoCD scale across multiple teams, repos, sites and so on, and it just never worked out.

Alex Suraci wrote Concourse, dogfooded it on a project team, and now pretty much the whole of Cloud Foundry is being built with Concourse pipelines.
This simply is not true.

Oh, wait, you're spreading your subtle forms of influence.
> I notice for instance that StackExchange almost always beats out Expert Sex Change links these days.

True, but they very often don't beat out numerous websites that have taken the open StackExchange content (or other similar, more specialized forums) and rehosted it on a new domain. This behavior should be easy to kill, Google should consider this blacklistable behavior and have an easy way to report any site doing it, with the number of StackExchange users out there these sites would be blacklisted within hours of being launched and before long peolple would simply stop doing it. But for some reason it is allowed to continue.
This is amusing accurate. Wayyy too many startups, even YC funded ones, have products that are difficult to profit on, or worse, don't really have a market in the first place.

For every "next Uber or Airbnb," there's hundreds of Shutdownifys.
ES6 is beautiful
innovative solution. I'm fine with it.
I can take some risk.

That would be ideal for me. How would I go about getting myself into such a situation?
I feel that I have wasted too much time chasing new and sexy.
This sounds reasonable, but is oversimplified.

OD deaths are up by a factor of three since the feds cracked down on cheap vicodin and oxy. The drug war has also killed huge numbers of people in other countries, harmed civil liberties at home, and cost a lot of actual dollars.

I think it doesn't look like agood deal unless you omit some of those costs.

Friedman addresses this point better than I can. You might enjoy this debate on drug criminalization between Friedman and the former governer Pete Wilson of CA:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIznGX7sCqQ
It seems you are not catching the point of the article. Did you read? The problem is addiction and people turning to illegal drugs after becoming addicted to legal RX.
Why?

1) Racism. In the early part of the 20th Century, various drugs were made-to-be-correlated with "undesirable minorities". This very much in sync with the impulse from William Randolph Hearst ( who owned a huge ranch in the Mexican state of Chihuahua and was partially responsible for an invasion of Mexico to go after Pancho Villa ).

2) Out-of-control heroin use in Vietnam inspired Nixon to first "golden flow" test returning service(wo)men and then
declare the War on Drugs.

2a) Doctors in the '60s and '70s prescribed many, many, many pills. See also Betty Ford ( the person, not the clinic ).

3) Drug users are the perfect out group. It's possible to construct all sort a narratives out of this, so it's far too politically useful to do anything pragmatic. And people who don't know anything about drugs are then entitled to feel superior to those who do them.
Tell HN: My project is turning into a death march
Ugh. My software project is turning into a death march.

It is not ending.
The todo list goes on and on.
Things always take longer than expected.
I'm losing faith in the project ever coming to completion.
I'm now just grinding through the tasks in a state of numbness.
I seem to add three tasks for every task I complete.

Classic deathmarch.

Unfortunately it's MY project and I'm the only developer.

It's disheartening. I have reduced scope once already. I think maybe I need to do so again.

I need a few slaps on the back and cheers of support from other developers to spur me on to completion....
it cant, the first company that gets asked to comply with this law will challenge it and it will be struck down. Past eaves dropping laws have only required that companies give the Feds access but they provide their own man power and resources. This is how NSA and others have employees with offices inside ISP datacenters. The ISPs merely provide them with full access to their datacenters but the government must provide all the workers who actually go through the data
But it seems to me that as a basic rule of information ethics, the salience of information in a given information system should not be biased by monetary influence. Full stop, the end, no exceptions.

Luckily, the world does not have to conform to your standards. What you are arguing for is authoritarianism, that your opinion be forced upon actors. This kind of thinking is exactly what erodes the basis for innovation and liberty. Google is the top search engine because their results are just unmatched in quality. If you don't like the results of google, then visit another search engine - or better, create a better one that conforms to your puritan principles. But please don't tell others what to do, and for goodness' sake, please don't involve the state and more legislation in this.
Try to sell a bad product? It's done all the time. Heck, a tube of wax called "HeadOn" managed to sell pretty well with an ad campaign that stopped just short of claiming it helped headaches.
Salt is awesome. Very easy to reason about, very powerful to use, very simple to control.
I would be interested in a concrete example of how you found command line R in Linux to be superior? I personally use R with RStudio on Windows and on the command line in a Linux cluster. I have found no differences, and am happy to use either, but tend to use RStudio because it suits my workflow better. Memory management in command line R on Linux seems better, but I don't run into that issue very often.
Could you expand a bit on what the nature of integration with Excel might be?
At 7nm spacing you could draw 100,000 lines across the width of a human hair. About 70 silicon atoms lying next to each other would be 7nm wide. I know the end of Moore's law has been predicted before, but this time has to be different.
I agree. In particular, I wasn't arguing for anything special to happen at p=2/3. I was hopeful, though, that p=2/3 might be a tolerable approximation over a reasonable range of skill levels.

Having played a bit with some toy models, I've changed my mind a bit; my guess is that p=2/3 is a reasonable approximation for few-dan and few-kyu amateurs, but that outside, say, the 5k-5d range it's far enough off to make a substantial difference.

So, what does this do to those (anyway fairly bogus) "depth" figures? My crappy toy model suggests that for a 2/3 win probability you need a 3-rank difference around 24k, a 2-rank difference around 12k, a 1-rank difference around 2d, a 0.5-rank difference around 8d. And I estimate God at 15 amateur dan (if Cho Chikun is 9p and needs 4 stones from God then God is 21p; if, handwavily, 9d=3p and one p-step is 1/3 the size of one d-step, then God is 21p = (3+18)p = (9+6)d = 15d). So we need maybe 20 steps from God to 5d, then maybe 10 from there to 5k, then maybe 5 from there to 15k, then maybe 5 from there to 30k. That's 40 steps -- not so very different from what we get just by pretending one rank = one "2/3 win probability" step, as it happens.
Can you draw a covisit graph of people? Who visited the building at the same times as somebody else. The strength of the connections could be visitedboth^2/( visitedwithouttheother1+1)*(visitedwithouttheother2+1)))
I agree entirely.

If I root my phone and accidentally brick it, nobody here would say, "Gosh, that's terrible, it's all Motorola's fault!" They would say, correctly, that if blame is to be assigned, it'd all be mine.

I think it's even clearer with something where even small errors could be fatal. Anybody rooting a car is betting both their life and those of the people they encounter on their technical skill. It might be an excellent bet, but they should be entirely aware that they're betting.
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It's weird the author uses git submodules. Ansible has a requirements file you can use for dependency management.

http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/galaxy.html#advanced-control...
Are all Netflix Originals produced like House of Cards? If all the Originals were produced aided by machine learning methods, can we say that machine learning methods are not that effective?
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> Patients have told me it's become increasingly difficult to get prescriptions for quite modest doses of opioid agents they've used for years without dose escalation. The tendency to throw babies out with the bathwater is not unique to this situation, but no less problematic.

I have experienced this as well. Not only are doctors now reluctant to prescribe opioids, but you as a patient are suspected to be a drug-seeking addict by everyone in the chain: doctors, nurses, and pharmacists. People complaining that it's too easy to get pills clearly haven't had to manage a chronic pain condition in the past couple of years.
Uhm I don't think so.

I consider Mr. Donald a special case. Who would have had audacity to sue an airport over plane's noise... twice!

His Wiki read is really a material for a good movie. From over 150 lawsuits Mr. Trump is involved, the most hilarious seems to be his feud with Bill Maher.

Wiki does a better job at describing it...

Trump sued comedian Bill Maher for $5 million in 2013. Maher had appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and had offered to pay $5 million to a charity if Trump produced his birth certificate to prove that Trump's mother had not mated with an orangutan. This was said by Maher in response to Trump having previously challenged Obama to produce his birth certificate, and offering $5 million payable to a charity of Obama's choice, if Obama produced his college applications, transcripts, and passport records. Trump produced his birth certificate and filed a lawsuit after Maher was not forthcoming, claiming that Maher's $5 million offer was legally binding. "I don't think he was joking," Trump said. "He said it with venom." Trump withdrew his lawsuit against the comedian after eight weeks.
Less than 3 years from generating a half of watt of power in the Chicago pile in December of 1942 to blowing up a city; 4 if you count the previous year. Nobody said, "give us 20 years and we'll make you an a-bomb." They pretty much knew how to at least figure out all the lacunae in 3 years.
While they may use price as a metric to try to guess if interdiction efforts are effective.... the tale is generally that interdiction efforts are not effective.

Meanwhile, don't look to closely at what has happened with the cartels in Mexico.

It's nothing more than "something must be done; this is something; this must be done." The wave of open drug use in the 1960s was pretty scary to a great many people.
> it cant, the first company that gets asked to comply with this law will challenge it

The first company with enough resources to endure a prolonged legal battle against the federal government, that is. What I wonder is what the response of the average 5 person startup with data on millions of users all over the world is going to be...
Sorry, which category do you mean?
Damn. This is pretty impressive.
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Hey, I wrote a quick module / class for Rails for Mandrill Users trying to go to SendGrid using their SMTP API module. It's far from perfect or done, but it's something to get going...

https://github.com/mcbobo/sendgrid-rails-smtp/blob/master/RE...
I laughed so hard when I discovered that someone gave him karma gold
> The TPP doesn't alter the sovereignty equation, it is a trade treaty.

Except that trade treaties become supranational constitutions when enterprises in other countries can use trade courts to enforce treaty clauses over national governments' own legislation and constitutions since they usually surrender their sovereignty to these treaties. These kinds of effects have already been amply documented with regards to the WTO, CAFTA, NAFTA and others. This is political science mainstream. See: Stephen Clarkson, Uncle Sam and Us: Globalization, Neoconservatism, and the Canadian State (2002), among many others.
I haven't laughed so hard as when I discovered that someone gave him karma gold
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> It would expose companies like Apple Inc.

Apple seems to shift taxes to more tax-friendly countries to avoid high taxes in US.

How much time before they figure how to move headquarters and their legal standing outside of US jurisdiction??
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> if a business can't at least survive without huge influxes of investments then is it really a business that they should be investing in in the first place

Many entrepreneurs have been trained to pursue growth over short-term sustainability. In a market defined by network effects, this makes sense. It also works where one has a shot at winning a significant majority of a research-driven industry's profits (e.g. Apple or SpaceX), thereby starving one's competition of R&D oxygen.

Not all markets look like that. Furthermore, the cost of (and risk of losing) financing have not been properly worked into teams' growth-versus-profitability calculi. The time and resources it takes to adapt will kill some and slow others. After all is said and done, we'll have a healthier Valley culture.
Are you kidding me?

Almost all VCs aren't interested in "non-profit" and "welfare of general community."

They want hockey-stick ROI and unicorns.

I know this may be the wrong forum to say this, but let's get real...VC are in it for the money, not to make a social impact, and the last thing most of them are interested in is playing welfare daddy to a bunch of tech nerds.
>Why can't we get political will to do something different?

Who wants to be the demon that wants to make drugs legal? The opposition would eat him alive! It would be tantamount to suicide.
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Well, netflix just migrated all their servers to amazon EC2. I'm sure it was cheaper for them.
Not iirc. But I wasn't around at the time, so nobody told me anything about what was wrong with the 286 in the first place.
We built this printer to take Snapchat screenshots sent to us and print them out at events. It got a little nutty when we decided to put the hardware into a tiny box and 3M-tape it to walls. The faceplate of the printer is the actual Snapcode that users send their Snaps to, and a modified inkless printer (along with batteries, lighting, mifi, ddwrt router, cooling, and other electronics...) is jammed inside.

It was a ~4wk side project.
Free markets in no way preclude torts. If your ... snake-oil medicine kills somebody, that's a tort. Taken properly, this means you won't just lose one lawsuit, you'll enjoy the legal equivalent of being bombed back to the stone age.

Free markets only work if there is good and efficient law. Indeed, David Friedman has written extensively on this very subject. His "Machineries of Freedom" is excellent.
So you think some one paying twitter to get those tweets to show up? And not through the "sponsored" system?
The fact that one product which seems to be a placebo may have made some money does not disprove my point; I never said it was completely impossible to make money by selling a bad product, just that it is vanishingly unlikely. If you think that selling diluted ingredients in wax is an easy way to make money, please go ahead and try your hand at it.

My position is that advertising a bad product is a very bad bet; the fact that someone has won the lottery does not mean that anyone should play it.
That's just not true. Opiate addiction is a very serious condition. There are 100 bigger issues than "price". No study ever found anything to back up that claim.
What can video games teach you about UX and UI?
Google is getting worse. I find that restricting date range in search tools can provide more useful results. But I'm not sure why.
Will she include a special provision in the bill, penalizing companies if they help the government spy on Congress?
http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/13/politics/feinstein-cia-snoopin...
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Technology candidates use for their own campaign websites.

In alphabetical order, by last name:

Hilary Clinton: ASP, IIS

Ted Cruz: wordpress, nginx

Marco Rubio: wordpress, apache & nginx

Bernie Sanders: wordpress, nginx

Donald Trump: php, nginx

http://builtwith.com/hilaryclinton.com

http://builtwith.com/tedcruz.org

http://builtwith.com/marcorubio.com

http://builtwith.com/berniesanders.com

http://builtwith.com/donaldjtrump.com
At least the bellwethers in Colorado et al seem pretty consistent with what libertarians might think ok.
> I really wish Dianne Feinstein would resign

There's talk of her retiring this year.
There are some typical things that apply to just about any software project that you can try.

Avoid feature creep by writing down the exact list of things you need to do, and if you come up with more ideas, put them on a separate list.

Try to build a Minimum Viable Product, which is a vertical slice of the most minimal version of your product that works.[1] If that doesn't work out, build some feature-complete tech demos and refactor them into an MVP.

Find a friend to help you with it. A fresh pair of eyes can help you validate your project and see what you could be doing better!

Experiencing friction means you're learning. Too much friction, however, can burn you. Don't burn out. Take a break. If you find yourself feeling unable to finish a task today, either try a different task on the todo list, or do something that relaxes you instead. Worrying about when you'll finish won't get you any further, nor will pushing yourself past your limit.

Best of luck in your endeavor!

1: http://blog.crisp.se/2016/01/25/henrikkniberg/making-sense-o... (has a really nice infographic that might help you understand!)

P.S. It's okay to fail. Fail forward.
"Mental health" has a troubled past. Many problem abusers are in fact self-medicating.
The big error of the 90s digital utopians was over-estimating how much the Internet would change society and under-estimating how much society would change the Internet.
Ah, how wonderful it will be to live in a world without embrace and extend.

Wait. systemd, kdbus, GNOME and systemd-udevd. Shit.

We have met the enemy, and befriended it. Now we are the enemy.
Dunno. Hard to say. Could be, or could be their algo saying you would like it. They will always claim the latter.