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My title is DevOps Engineer and I still don't know what the hell that actually means – but who cares, I was hired to bring a new mindset, not a new toolset, to the development team I sit with. You're right, there's lots of devs here that don't know how to deploy code well or what configuration management is, but part of my job is spreading awareness and continually asking the question: how can we do this better. That is the spirit of DevOps, and that will never die.
In Memory of Andy Grove
Bill Could Spell the End of End-To-End Encryption
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Because I wanted to see the content? Is that what you're really asking? Am I supposed to feel some kind of moral obligation to see the ads just because they want me to, even if my browser is perfectly capable of blocking them?

Sorry, but it's _my_ computer. I control it. Publishers don't get to decide what it does or does not do. I do.
Sorry, I have to downvote this as an ad hominem comment that ignores the article's content indicating that Microsoft is making a measured, useful, and intelligent step forward.
You're right, and I sold vim a little short there, compared to something like emacs.

More accurately, I meant that when someone wants to combine vim with a functionality they tend to implement it as a plugin with vim as the host and interface. I won't speak for anyone else, but my vimrc tends to accumulate a lot of behavior such that it's still a kitchen sink--it just wasn't included with the initial distro.
Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face-to-face conversation. Avoid gratuitous negativity. - Hacker News Guidelines

If you are opening up for incivility, I doubt there is an end what people will start calling each other. Do you really want to go down that road?
>Another huge problem for us is that we are in talks with a very large Chinese IT company (triple-digit $Bn market cap), and if there is a clone growing in their backyard they might pass on us.

If what I've read about doing business in China holds a sliver of truth - both from stories linked here and elsewhere - it's not a chance they will pass on you but almost a given they will pass on you. I'm almost so suspicious of business practices in that market that I'd be willing to wager a small sum that maybe somebody in the very large Chinese IT company actually prompted another entity to get the clone up and running, or at least is aware of the situation.

If there's a way to take your idea and leave you nothing, I get the feeling that is exactly the path that will be taken. Unfortunately I can't help with direct advice to address, but I do wish you the best in your efforts to stamp out that terribly dishonest approach.
Simply make the ad networks liable for the damage caused by malware they distribute - this would solve the worst problems caused by ad networks.
The issue is that Amazon is the largest online retailer in the world and they are refusing to carry items that compete with their other business units.

Your example misses the point. People reasonably expect Amazon to carry electronics. Amazon is abusing their position as the largest retailer in world to suppress competition. That's illegal.

But with your example, Ford does not control 90% of car dealers in the US, so they are not in a position of power. Now, if Ford owned 90% of car mechanics in the US and they refused to repair Chevys, that would be abusing their position of power to suppress competition.
I have been thinking about this one a bit more. I believe the idea is to remove various sources of friction in the system. You may be able to get away with not scanning. Again, pretend the store has a system to send you the grocery bill in a processable electronic form. The assumption is most stuff is purchased from a large supermarket. Typically stuff like lot numbers, expiry, best before are know so those could be included. This information could be included into something like Google Calendar and reminders set out. Imagine someone has Amazon Alexa (was "listening to Too Embarrassed to Ask" podcast about Alexa). It would ask questions about the food: "you bought Arugula two days ago? Have you used it yet?" Privacy aside, this may be much more usable.
Was wondering if it was happening again or what the deal was. Just a months old article popping up again for some reason.
02:00 UTC seems a bit of an odd choice if the goal is to have people update quickly. Something like 15:00 UTC would be better as it's 08:00 PST & 18:00 Moscow.
He dropped out unfortunately. You guys may hate GWB, but he sure kept Putin in check. I think he used to call him something like "pooty-poo", in person!
It's funny, it feels like the opposite to me. Going to a regular store is pretty simple. Buying with Prime is a pain in the ass, since half the stuff they sell isn't eligible. Amazon is rarely the cheapest option anymore, too, so I no longer have the luxury of skipping the price comparison and knowing I'm getting a pretty good deal anyway.
http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1329374

Google Preps for IBM, ARM Shift. ARM is not powerful enough. But big boys are preparing themselves to pull the trigger whenever it becomes ready.
Dividends are included in the returns when computing correlations. Hedge funds make bets on stocks over performing or under performing compared to a benchmark. If all stocks perform the same, there is no hedge because the weight of a stock in the portfolio does not impact portfolio return.
I was done after a year and a half.

Owed them for moving expenses, etc. but I really didn't care.

I spent 6 months doing nothing before I even considered getting another job.

Easily the worst experience in my life and completely colored my entire impression of the tech industry negatively. I went from loving what I did to just doing this as a job for a paycheck (even at another company now that is leaps and bounds "better") with an ever-present need to get out of the industry entirely (but no real plan to do so).
Meh. Be loud and proud about it.

I bet half of those people left the South and are fronting about it.
Get rid of the drivers and we can let go of the safety limitations

Not entirely. There have been a number of horrifying wrecks where spectators have been hurt and even killed. We need to protect against that.

Example:

The 1955 Le Mans disaster occurred during the 24 Hours of Le Mans motor race in Le Mans, France in June 1955, when a crash caused large fragments of debris to fly into the crowd. Eighty-three spectators and driver Pierre Levegh died and 120 more were injured in the most catastrophic accident in motorsport history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1955_Le_Mans_disaster
Satisfying theorems is generally for the purpose of friendliness, by ensuring consistency. In this case, they had two options:

(a) be consistent as if the language had type-level literals, which resulted in nicer code in the usual case, but some unsafety on unchecked edge cases, or

(b) give more safety, but force everyone to check for the empty list even when they don't need to.

They went with (a) - it's the type of decision Haskell is (I'd argue incorrectly) criticized for not doing - people complain about having to prove things to their compiler. Of course, in hindsight, and given the language ecosystem now (and that option (b) is instead consistent with all the monad-centric libraries, etc.), (b) seems like a better choice. Which one is better could just as easily change again if empty lists became distinguished at the type-level in Prelude in the future. This is also something that would either crash, or be similarly inconsistent (just return null, causing eventual crashes instead) in any other language. It's notable, though, that the community is making effort to fix these tiny inconsistencies, rather than punting on it for backwards compatibility, as so many other ecosystems do.
It's incredible how prolific Diane Feinstein is in proposing laws that ruin technology or are based on fundamental misunderstandings of it.

Like this one: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/114/s1608/text/is

And of course this one:
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/s2102/text/is
Indeed you do. Many years ago I had a business. One year the state decided to audit my business. No biggie, I had paid all my taxes as required. Except I hadn't. My business was located near a big box warehouse and you could order on the website and go pick it up. This was when almost all online orders were claimed to be "tax free". I did that for a few hard drives and some other stuff. I ended up owing about $150 in back taxes and penalties because I hadn't manually figured out the sales tax I was supposed to pay and reported it. I was a little annoyed at my accountant whose reaction was, "Yeah, nobody pays that, though technically you're supposed to." Needless to say, I have a new accountant.
as opposed to this article's clickbait bullshit pseudo-journalism?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11455718
The Pockulus VR Headset May Look Funky, but It’s Only $49
Only about 60%[0] of the American Cancer Society revenue goes to charity to begin with so that is to be expected. Most of the cancer charities I've seen (Susan G Komen et all) are rather bad.

[0] http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary...
To me, the advantage of a certification is that it is independent of a person's current job. For example, a front end developer could use certification as a tool toward work in dev-ops.

Of the listed options, anything to do with AWS is likely to have the most widespread appeal to employers. I'm not sure the DevOps Foundation has the same sort of century based clout as an organization like the American Bar Association or the Royal Institute of British Architects.

Good luck.
I had a hiring manager make me an attractive offer--and then in the next breath tell me that he was planning on leaving the company, and I should run. The gist was "my boss is watching so I have to make the offer, but he'll pop into your office at 4PM and tell you you're working until 9PM on a regular basis and otherwise interferes constantly. I've been unable to protect my team from this. You can do better."

I sent him an explicit "thanks for the generous offer, but I've chosen to go elsewhere after consideration" email so he had something to forward, thanked him kindly privately, and ran like hell.

It's pretty amazing what you'll run into across a career. I've probably seen more WTFs from the hiring side of the table than from the people I've interviewed to hire.
What would it look like?
Oh sorry—that's confusing. You'll actually have two accounts. One for the Cardiogram app using your choice of Facebook / Twitter / Email, and one for Health eHeart study (our partners at UCSF) using email.

When you sign up for mRhythm on health-eheartstudy.org, create a new account, and then you'll be guided through a few survey questions and have the ability to link your Cardiogram account with your Health eHeart account. That link is what lets us do the research.

Does that make more sense?
Daily chart: Facebook, the world’s most addictive drug
This is a simple GUI which I made for this script: github.com/yasoob/youtube-dl-gui. I hope you guys would like it :) All bug reports are welcome.
Will IIoT bolster industrial automation investments?
I put my dog's bed next to my desk at home and he just lays there, sleeping in there next to me :)
This is more or less the old print model - take a topic, create quality content, take money from very specific relevant advertisers.

It's such an obvious model that it's amazing the ad industry hasn't understood how well it works. Instead they persist in using crappy non-functional trackers and ad blocker blockers and all kinds of other bullshit techniques - because apparently they'd rather game readers than provide something good and useful.

Postscript: a minor bug. I'm using OS X Chrome, and the ad bar keeps twitching when I reach the end and try to scroll down further.
Open source contributions aren't as useful for a hiring decision as you imply. Did the candidate spend several days working on a small change? Does the candidate only do quality work when it's something that is personally interesting to them? If yes to either of those then they might still be a bad hire.

Don't get me wrong, I love to see open source work, it is a plus and it definitely helps paint the picture of what the candidate is passionate about. But just having impressive open source work alone is not enough to make the technical interview unnecessary.

> and ace the technical interviews

If there's an IQ test after they ace the technical interviews, then that's a really weird order to do the interview, but I don't think that's the situation that the above comments were talking about.
Do you have a SLA with Google? Do you have any plans to proceed if they just shut down GAE within of a few months?

This has happened with Parse, and this will happen again.
We do plan to support other devices like Fitbit and Android Wear. The reason we started with Apple Watch is that 1) the heart rate sensor is quite good, and 2) we can target millions of people with one platform (iOS / Watch OS).
"why not simply teach all developers how to utilize the infrastructure tools in the cloud?"

You need someone to liaise with the Cloud company, set everything up, test it, organize changes, and update the system regularly with new functionality. Even if a Dev had 10 years experience managing infrastructure, they still shouldn't be doing it because they should be developing products. If only there were someone whose job it was to manage Operational changes, and liaise with the Developers... Hmm.

And by the way, not everything is moving to the Cloud. We've had managed services in one form or another since the early 90's, and the result is always the same: the service provider is blamed for things working shittily and the company brings services back in-house.

And his continual refrain that "QA is dead" - does this guy understand product development lifecycle? Whether you're designing a brand new product or just bringing out a new version, you have to have QA. Can you imagine a medical device or medical web service being developed without QA, or QC?

Thanks for the troll, TechCrunch.
The barriers to entry in these kinds of status/credential fields are extremely high. Starting a new asset management firm is extremely difficult, and no customer is even going to talk to you until you have a five year track record of performance and a ton of marketing machinery surrounding it.

Whether it's my grandma at the local bank or a huge endowment for a state teacher's union, people still want a handshake and a white-toothed car salesman smile when they hand over their money -- they want a false sense of security even if they are knowingly complicit in its falseness.

Since you can't pop up overnight and start claiming "Hey, we've been around for X years so trust us" it makes it very hard.

One exception is with small hedge funds that are created with a direct tie to a wealthy individual. That's almost always how small hedge funds start and few other types survive. Basically, there will be some semi-rich hot shot finance types who want to start a hedge fund, and then they have to convince some wealthy business contact, someone with usually > $100 MM in assets, who doesn't mind fronting the significant costs to get a small strategy up and running. Then, if it works, that wealthy person will effectively be the marketing department for a while and will recruit other wealthy connections to give somewhat small amounts of money, growing AUM slowly.

If you really succeed beyond the 5-8 year mark, then you can start trying to tap into more traditional client streams.

But basically, without a close connection to a significantly wealthy person, the status-based barriers to entry for things like management consulting and asset management are just too high.
It is such a cool principle. I think it can be extended to all manner of fields. As a process engineer, I am convinced that the best machine operators are the ones actively doing nothing. The active bit is key: they must be alert, watchful, understanding, and for-God's-sake don't push nothing unless you need to.

Somewhere along the way operators think that if they don't push a button every fifteen minutes they aren't earning their pay (I blame bad management and production pressure). So when in doubt, look busy. It has awful and confusing effects on processes, leading to long term hard-to-diagnose noise in otherwise stable systems.

I think the same principle applies here. We want vigilant, patient, and wise did managers. Not just super active and excitable ones.
which is great. the idea is not to do them a bad turn, it's just to partition them off into a "doesn't belong on my internet" bin and then let them go their own way.
Recipe for disaster right there, that is like asking for vulnerabilities
That's my favorite quote from Atwood! People are so prone to forget that while cryptographic algorithms are provably secure (under practical constraints) in a mathematically rigorous way, their implementations are subject to all of the shortcomings of any engineering practice. Makes quick work for an attacker trying to figure out where to start.
Yes - and that's the point. I wasn't being sarcastic in my comment of being courteous. I have three options. Ignore their plea, disable my adblock for them, or don't visit at all. They expect me to choose option 2. Out of the other two options, I choose the more courteous one.

All it is doing is slowing their death. News which doesn't get consumed will die out.

I'm of the opinion that ad-based business models on the internet will not work much longer. I'm of the opinion that only three business models will survive the next decade:

1) Collecting and selling user data in bulk (Massive sites that have access to said data)

2) Paywalls (Most sites)

3) Donations (minority, tight knit communities)

Will the web be worse off for it? Potentially. But I see ads as extremely harmful to people and not something to be tolerated regardless of the reason. From the subtle control over peoples' psyche, serving malware, or even being straight up scams... I don't see advertisements as moral and think the world would be better off without them.
Yes! We plan to support other devices like Fitbit and Android Wear. My co-founder and I both worked on Android at Google, so we'd love to get back to Android Studio.
By forwarding I mean reliable, disk-buffered forwarding. This only exists in the commercial "Premium Edition" of syslog-ng.
I'm surprised this didn't come up with the github script tag DDOS. I know they changed content to try to encourage them to stop, but it was an inconvenience to users, like alert() calls, so of course it was no where near as effective as this.
I'm sure oncologists are aware of the difference.
How is VW's credibility after the emissions cheating scandal?
Also "YouTube Red is not currently available in Argentina."
Isn't web assembly going to help address many of these problems?
I use both accents with people, depending on context. It it not false nor disingenuous in my opinion because different sentences may work better with one or the other.
There are a few places where you can lodge strong protest and send legal notice:

State Intellectual Property Office of China http://english.sipo.gov.cn/lxfs/

China Internet Network Information Center http://www1.cnnic.cn/PublicS/hyzl/

You can send them emails or even better call them. They all should have people who can communicate in English effectively. Getting in contact with them will help you put pressure on the offender, and also gather info for next move.

The best move is to hire someone from China to do some leg work for you, if that's necessary. No need for lawyers at first. There are many Chinese freelancers active in various international elance type sites. Also, http://www.witmart.com/ is reputable, operating from China.

China, at least the central government, is trying hard to implement tougher policies on protecting intellectual properties. The problems are mostly at the local level. If you know how to get the offenders' attention with effective threats on legal action, they are actually _very_ afraid of being caught. The cut-throat business competitions in China force them to avoid legal trouble and damage to their company's reputations, if they are legit startup trying to make it big, not some college students just playing around (in this case then you don't need to worry too much anyway).

Also wholesale copying western ideas is a widespread popular practice, I feel you are fighting the wrong battle. There is no way you can prevent somebody else (meaning hundreds if the idea is really good) in China doing the same cloning shit. Also conquering the China market needs many many other types of fighting, and preventing cloning is the least you need to worry about.
You can commit to an investment with no idea, at all, whether it will cost more than the benefit it delivers. I suppose "not an option" isn't quite the right wording. It's an option.
A binary patch.
I have always wanted this, so badly.
Ask HN: Language etiquette on HN
I'd think calling something or someone "so gay" not only makes you look like an immature teenager, but more importantly it also demeans the LGBT community. I haven't seen that phrase used on HN, which is great.

But at the same time, "so lame", "pretty lame" etc seem to be widely used on HN. That usage of lame as an adjective is insensitive and an affront to people with disabilities. It helps perpetuate the culture of ableism, just like the words "retard" or "retarded" would when used to describe something that seems illogical.

This person explains it better than I ever could: http://www.autistichoya.com/p/ableist-words-and-terms-to-avoid.html

So can we stop doing this and agree to a HN policy that discourages the use of ableist language?
I was hoping this would be an article about why "log in with Twitter" has been broken this morning for everyone :)
Copyright Office Comments from Music, Tech Groups Expose Rift in Vision for DMCA
More importantly than hosting the ads natively is handling media sales themselves. I think offloading that work to ad networks and ad exchanges is the first step in giving up responsibility for what gets shown to a user/viewer.
I have heard this repeated many times and it's nonsense for two reasons:

First, it isn't actually true: Third-party managed services (say, exotic databases) are a mere network hop away. If you really had to you could call out to your own self-managed services in EC2 or whatnot. Even on Google App Engine, which is one of the most restrictive systems, we use a multitude of services running elsewhere in "the cloud". This is occasionally a mild annoyance, but it doesn't significantly alter the value equation.

Second, it's irrelevant: Migrating our application off of GAE would be tough, sure. You can call this "lock-in" if you want, but it ranks somewhere down a distant thousandth after a long list of concerns about my product and how well it is meeting the needs of my customers. Worrying about lock-in is a premature optimization.
Some of the "socialist" programs the US has? Sure. I'm guessing you don't know the difference between a US "socialist" program and the "USSR" kind of socialist, though.
Huge props to the team working on this.

I once maintained something similar in Ruby (https://github.com/rb2k/viddl-rb), and the amount of changes necessary just to keep a hand full of plugins up-to-date is crazy.