skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems to be arguing that since sudden windfalls don't make people better off, money is not the deciding factor in various markers of high quality outcomes in life.

Yet there is a huge difference between someone who was born to "wealth" and someone who won, our whose parents won, a lottery. And many of those differences specifically relate to safeguards that protect and grow a wealthy-person's wealth.

Various differences between the "wealthy"and those who just happened to come upon a large windfall of money:

* The wealthy usually have an (often inherited) network of financial advisors, people investing their money, and lawyers, all of whom stand between them and bad decisions

* The wealthy are typically surrounded by a culture that has always been rich, so has always been able to afford universities and good health, and so can afford to value these highly

* The wealthy are usually surrounded by other wealthy people, who are not usually expecting (justly or not) financial favors (e.g. a brother who needs medical debt paid off)

* The psychological difference between growing up rich or working for a high salary, versus a sudden unexpected windfall our of the blue, must be immense.

Clearly there are differences between lottery winners and those who are wealth by other means, so you can't take the former, see that their life outcomes don't improve, and conclude that money over all doesn't have an effect on these measures. Just that lottery money doesn't.
What are you on about? Stop straw manning me. When did I ever say saving will get your hearts desire means being able afford a 350 a year should afford you 1200 after 3 years? If you want to nitpick, you will see that I said one would have to save AND get a better job for the above to make sense.

My point was prices for casual entertainment vs occasional entertainment (computer games/movies,etc/ vs holidays/niche sports/etc) is dissonant when it comes to computer hardware + titles.

Yes, the hardware itself has better value than the holiday, because the results last for 4 years (best case for the games we're talking about), but the hardware is the medium -- it still requires paying extra for the actual game(s), plus all manner of extra circumstantial costs. In fact one may gain for more from holiday -- in terms of life experiences, satisfaction, well being, etc, in the long run.
I was unemployed for 10 months recently.

I think a lot of it is the new "100x developer" mentality.

Companies have become insanely picky. I've had lots of interviews, many of which went really well that never panned out. I've completed significant projects for companies, and I have some open source software out there too.

Companies have become convinced that 99% of developers are as valuable as a pile of dog shit they just stepped in, and its changing things. If you're bad at marketing, you're in for rough times ahead.
The comment about the SAS came from an active AFO, who worked in London at the time. I don't want to give any more information than that. I'm probably risking too much by just saying that.

The comment was quite specifically, "we aren't trained to do that (execute suspect by putting the gun to his head and pulling the trigger), but they are at Hereford".

It's hearsay, but far from your usual conspiracy theory.
Not even close.
Second on beanstalk...

I'm no sure why anyone would even bother with raw esc - just let aws manage it all using beanstalk. It certainly still relies on elb/dns and whichever env vars for "discovery" stuff, but it beats rolling your own infrastructure management using ecs/cloudformation etc.
A post-exploitation powershell tool for extracting password info from memory
> ECS doesn't have a way to pass configuration to services

I believe this is the recommended way:

ECS container instances automatically get assigned an IAM role[1], with credentials accessible via instance metadata (169.254.169.254) [2]. Containers can access that metadata too. The AWS SDK automatically checks that metadata and configures itself with those credentials, so all you have to do is give your IAM role access to a private S3 bucket with configuration data and load that configuration when booting up your app.

That way there's no need to copy/paste variables, and no leaking secrets in ENV variables. You do have to be careful though (as with any EC2 instance) not to allow outside access to that instance metadata endpoint, e.g., in a service that proxies requests to user-defined hosts on the network (but if you're doing that, you've got a lot more to worry about anyway).

[1] http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/i...

[2] http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/iam-roles...
So the "platforms" are 2 game consoles?
Zarch was the first game I played where a mouse was mandatory.
Our experience with ECS (at instacart) is not the best but we managed to get it work.

Here is how we get around the issues mentioned in the article:

* Service discovery: built our own with rabbitmq (we use that before ECS anyway).

* Configs: pass a s3 tarball url as environment variable, download it in containers.

* Cli: built our own with help of cloudformation

* Agent disconnecting: we did not see situation where all agents disconnected. we use a large pool of instances, there was never an issue to start containers because of agents.

In addition to these, we also do the following to make ECS work as we want it to:

* built our blue-green deploy solution (structure provided by ECS is very limited)

* built our own solution to integrate with ELB (ELB allows only one port per ELB)
I like how he's training a neural network to, in turn, train the cats to avoid his lawn.
Anybody has insights about using Docker Swarm? I imagine Kubernetes has been battle-tested way more in production, especially by the likes of Google. But from what I understand, Docker is really pushing swarm. I'd be curious to hear if others even considered Swarm before choosing K8s..
Hey, not all outdoor cats are pests! My cat is too incompetent to catch any birds and she just grazes on grass, so she's actually improving my yard by making it so I don't need to mow. Now if only I could get her to consistently eat it all to a certain height...
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How unfair that you're expected to sign an NDA on the spot. I'm sure that Amazon and other software companies have spent tens/hundreds of thousands of dollars to protect their IP, yet you don't even get the most basic legal counsel. Why couldn't they mail it out after the phone screening? This almost feels like duress.
PaaS Is Amazingly Helpful, but at What Point Do You Need It?
You might be a more experienced person give you also regularly interview but for someone new I think 8 weeks is a good time to prepare.
Because desperate people tend to do desperate things like hanging government officials from lamp posts. I agree governments like to capitalize on uncertainty, but Venezuela is way, way past the point where it works in the government's favor. If this goes on for much longer they're going to have a bona fide revolution.
How to Overcome Fear and Greed in Forex Trading
Planning for the wrong kind of scale
Cryptsy’s Big Vern Allegedly Speaks to Press
Apparent Amazon breach yields 80,000 Kindle logins
You aren't being coerced, so it isn't duress.

You want to interview? Sign an NDA. Otherwise, Amazon is under no obligation whatsoever to offer you an interview. Nothing is being taken from you, because you are not entitled to receive a job interview.
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I meet a lot of different engineers in different situations around SF all the time. Recently met one who is at a point that he owns several (>2) Teslas... Someone with $400K in liquid assets could do it without being embarrassed. I would be surprised if there wasn't as least one person reading these comments in that situation. Would that person care deeply enough to say "Here! Just finish it!" ?? Not likely. However, I'm very surprised that there isn't at least one multi-million dollar company who would value this higher than few person-months of internal engineering time.
Could rustup use PackageKit/yum/dnf to do this on Fedora? It would be really nice to be able to point to one command in the documentation that would work whether installed directly by the developer or provided by a distro.

Debian specifically provides it's own alternatives system to handle symlinks in a global manner, but nothing for directory-specific ones. I'm not sure about Fedora. With `rustup` replacing `multirust`, it would be useful to point to a common command that in turn would call the distro-provided facility for global links.

Also, congratulations on 1.10! Looking forward to servo.apk in the coming weeks as well.
> It was never communicated which languages the coding test would be limited to before I started it. Those I could choose from were C, C++, Java and a couple of others, which ruined my plans to use Go or PHP - the languages I was the most proficient in. So I ended up choosing Java.

I never get this. The first thing that should be understood by the combination of the resume and the phone screen is the candidate's preferred language.
If legit, a lot of those Kindle credentials are likely tied to identical info on AWS accounts. Update your passwords.
Only a few of the fancy private cars but it seemed like people were just hanging out talking to each other.
How much are those assets worth? Wouldn't the bonds be worth more if these assets were that substantial?
> instead of relying on OSS to fulfill this niche, or at very least put more effort into supporting OSS.

From whath I hear from people working there, OSS is king but there is also little contribution back to OSS so fits with what you mentioned.

(But I only know about a few AWS services, maybe it is different for others).
>We need ways to run "antivirus"

and this is where you already failed. Antivirus software is pretty much snake oil in 2016, it was already snake oil in ~2010. Running antivirus as your main security policy is how you recognise technically clueless CIO/CSOs (not that you will find many competent ones, all the education is leaning towards compliance over real security)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzC8jJ0ESJ0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z7L498dNB0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdgDr1CIoqU
Typo on the "its" here:

> Right now Verve runs on it’s own Virtual Machine (VM)
We have better oil in the US that is much cheaper to extract. Their oil is pretty low quality.
Did you run ECS on a custom AMI, or use the stock one?

We've been running with vanilla EB + ECS for months and haven't seen this at all.

From an outside perspective, it sounds like the primary issue you referenced here (the agent disconnecting) could have been due to a mismatch in configuration between the agent and docker, or maybe just a permissions issue. IIRC, the ECS agent tries to clean up containers every few hours so perhaps not being configured correctly caused it to get stuck?
"It was never communicated which languages the coding test would be limited to before I started it. Those I could choose from were C, C++, Java and a couple of others, which ruined my plans to use Go or PHP - the languages I was the most proficient in. So I ended up choosing Java."

Similar thing happened to me. I was never told or asked which programming language I would prefer. I click the link, filled some info and I landed on programming question with only two choices C or C++. I was like wait?! Though, I tried to solve the problem, but couldn't finish on time. I contacted the recruiter about this and I never heard anything back. All I got was email, Sorry you didn't qualify. I really liked the Hackerrank interface, but I was disappointed in lack of language options I was given.
Although they have committed questionable tactics in the past, they were not threatening to 'expose customers who dispute bills' based on what I see in this article.

They were actually warning customers that when disputing charges with their CC company, they will receive bills from the credit card at their billing address.

It's not really the fault of Ashley Madison that the customer has decided to be untruthful to the person living at their address.

I also suspect that on the other end, there were tons of people that signed up, used the service, and when someone else reading their CC bills found out, claimed it must be a 'fraudulent charge'..which is why they have a company policy of disputing all disputes.
Looks like writers won't be losing their jobs anytime soon!
And in their situation, it helps that it was mostly the wealth of foreigners that was lost. Iceland would have been much much worse off if most of the country was involved with those banks in a meaningful manner.
I think the issue here is flagging a story without bothering to check the story. Excluding obvious dupes, the recent article posted for Greek sex escorts, and similarly irrefutable garbage, you have no defensible basis for flagging on title alone.

Real-world example:

There have been a couple articles recently posted with titles such as "Do X with all the things using this one weird trick". The articles were solid, informative, and on-topic, despite the otherwise regrettable titles. I even complained about the titles in the comments, but not the content. I could only make this judgment by reading the articles and denying my flag-hammer until I knew they weren't garbage.

I think we're disagreeing on a difference between the proverbial letter and spirit of the law/guidelines.
Why aren't these data structures also good for main memory?

Is the gap between L1/L2 cache vs main memory not large enough? (1ns vs 100ns)
Bear in mind two things if you're looking for a software dev position: 1) most software dev is fairly boring, but often you can make of it what you do. You can make it boring or interesting. 2) it's not for life. Every job is a stepping stone.
everything is annoying and productivity-impeding compared to tiger-repellent rock
it's insteresting
Thanks for the advice. Seems like an appropriate-sized net would cost around $10.
U.S. Regulators Ban Theranos Founder from Lab for 2 Years
But it says 99%! That means it must be true because there's only a 1% chance it's not true!

/s
What a big fall from grace. Really wasn't expecting this to happen :( I think now the elephant in the room is that just how much of the actual company is built on substantial, tangible, and valuable assets. Unlike some people here, I really don't believe the entire thing could possibly have been a massive lie/fraudulent venture. This is probably textbook "overstretching the truth" and failing to deliver before everything implodes in a massive blaze of glory.

Does anyone here that actually has even slight first/second hand knowledge of the inner workings at Theranos know just how much of it is an 'actual, tangible business?'
Here we have it gentlemen: HN bingo.
Mine was more fun (I shared this before, so sorry if you have to read it again):

Didn't call on the agreed date for phone interview. Then when visiting on-site, future manager, probably the main person I should have been talking to, wasn't there. Quickly assembled together an interview schedule in 20 min with people who , except maybe two, seemed distracted and just wanted to go do something else. Forgot about me during lunch. So was left sitting in an office for an hour without anyone checking on me (eventually got up and started wondering the hallways hoping someone would stop me and ask me -- "Hey I don't think you belong here" and I was hoping to reply with a silly joke about trying to steal AWS's root CA private keys). Then of course they promised to call back with a decision in 2 days, which was more like 2 weeks. Didn't get an offer, no surprise (I did get snarky about the "leadership principles", they probably didn't appreciate that), but it did make a good story I like to tell every time interviews come up.
DRAM Class action checks being mailed
I don't understand the distinction you're trying to draw. On a personal machine, a directory path might look like /usr/bin/vi whereas a command would look like /usr/bin/vi.

Command invocations require you to identify what command you want. So we provide locations.
Watching that youtube clip of the 70 degree temp moving up and down the US really puts thing in perspective, one small tip of the earth's axis and we are all f#$$ed
Having an interest in security is a huge win for you. Hiring people into that field is impossibly hard because there are a tiny number of people employed in that area (I came from that field and it's very hard to find people to hire). That doesn't mean you're guaranteed a job, but if you want to be in that field, seek the jobs out. They exist.
We visited in September, and the warm clear water was a very pleasant bonus.
And for completeness here's the one for Firefox:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=577084
I have had an idea concerning error handling, but I don't really know if it makes sense. There has been a push in the functionality community to do error handling with Maybe or Either monads or perhaps something similar to them. However, this creates the situation where many functions return these monads(two track values), but most functions accept as input simple values(one track values). So there is a constant need to lift functions. I just know a little bit of Haskell so maybe the burden of constantly lifting is not so awful, but it currently seems that way to me. I was thinking that a language that could detect this and then automatically lift the functions might be cool. However, the normal case is simply to push failures through the system, by skipping all functions after the failure, and this is not always the behavior needed. Perhaps it is ok to continue if only one of a set of functions succeeds, or perhaps one wants to retry some number of times or for some duration of time before giving up. It would seem possible to use monads to handle all desired cases, but not with auto-lifting. In any case, I really think that a better system for handling errors would be that killer feature that would make a language worth while. This is something that would pervade the languages library and thus make sense to have a new language. This video partially inspired the idea. Scott Wlaschin - Railway Oriented Programming — error handling in functional languages. https://vimeo.com/97344498 The other one is the language Icon where every expression has a success/failure property with automatic backtracking.
I don't honestly think you're going to get much more than Fibonacci in a one day pair programming session on an unknown codebase. It's just too much to learn before you can really accomplish anything. Beyond one or maybe two days it just becomes an unreasonable request, regardless of whether they pay you.
I did edit it a little, but only to make it (slightly) more tactful.
Sorry, I shouldn't have implied you were intentionally misleading. I'm simply pointing out that by describing your language as without dependencies, you're just swapping out the explicit IR layer with a hard wired ISA layer (and linux abi), which is no less of a dependency.

I mean, GAS/x86-64 is cool, I enjoy toy languages as much as the next person—I just wouldn't describe it any other way than architecture-specific (and therefore useless to most people) so I don't have to click through if I can't play with it.
Someone needs to be the first to make the news for refusing to do so!
> compulsorily

Force people into a classroom, and they will learn nothing.

I see similar things all the time, like various schemes to force parents to go to PTA meetings, laws to force people to vote, etc. Utopia cannot be created this way.
They might have turned it down or off because it was buggy.

Trying to get a password out of my keychain using Screen Sharing completely hosed it (10.11 initial release). Even opening Keychain Access resulted in an instant freeze and spinning wheel. I ended up having to completely recreate my keychain and reset a lot of passwords.
You answered your own question. No, serious threats do not use Facebook Messenger. The reason it's limited deploy is technical (for now) not caging. Metadata is more important than content. They will always have the metadata.
Really great point about cars only taking off once they paved the roads. The government should get involved in building out infrastructure that will make it easier for self driving cars to work better, and get the technology production ready faster. Such an investment in next-gen infrastructure could be a huge competitive advantage for the US economy.
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Yes, but there has been plenty of well-researched, highly-repeatable evidence linking taking supplements of the antioxidant vitamins (A, C & E) with higher cancer risk.

Not to do with synthetic vitamins, of course, but certainly to do with the selling of vitamins as something you need to supplement.
My point is that a URL is often an abstraction of an invocation of a function or class with segments and query parameters mapping to methods or arguments, and that it doesn't need to have any relationship to file paths on the server, despite superficially looking like a file path.
Expertology
Thanks for the shoutout to Convox! I'm on the core team.

I understand these challenges. I wrote about a lot of them here:

https://convox.com/blog/ecs-challenges/

But we have been having tons of success on ECS both for our own stuff and for hundreds of users.

I see the agent disconnection problem too. convox automatically marks those as unhealthy and the ASG replaces them.

It's happening more than I'd like but I'm seeing little to no service disruption. One of the root causes is the docker daemon hanging.

Glad Kubernetes is working well for you. Many roads lead to success as the cloud matures.
purely functional language with no GC!

that's real fun!
Thanks for the response. I forget sometimes that not all customers are reasonable.
> that was not immediately spent was put into tech stocks. And then the dot com bubble hit.

This one kills me. It is an absurdly common belief among laymen that investing == stock picking.

E-Trade advertises on Nickelodeon. Vanguard doesn't.
Is Crossbar.io the Future of Python Web Apps? (2014)
Why would you go to the trouble of placing "bombs all over the city" if not to use them? I would take that threat and the fact that they had not been detonated to signal that the shooter had no bombs in the first place.
Coupled with how buggy its been on the iPhone platform since i got my phone I don't use it at all
If tax revenue stays the same per person, then there shouldn't be any problem funding the justice system as population grows, as long as the arrest rate stays the same.
Can someone please explain how this submission, which has 9 upvotes and no comments (save this one) is still on the HN front page after five hours?

It's far less successful than any other entry on the front page. Clicking to the linked article, it's also not the kind of material that HN is known for.
This breaks the HN guidelines. Personal attacks are not allowed here, no matter how wrong someone else is. Instead, please (re)-read the site guidelines and post civilly and substantively, or not at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
> you're portraying this as a positive fact

That's an exceedingly uncharitable interpretation. Please don't do that here.
Current big discussion (other URL): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12053721 (404 points, 20 hours ago, 267 comments)
I made an account to say that the person who writes this blog sounds like a great person.
> no tech, there's no engineering impact, and it's a dangerous topic

Those are not the criteria for whether something belongs on Hacker News. The criterion is simply that a story be intellectually interesting.

This one is complex in that it has intellectually interesting aspects as well as other aspects. But that's not uncommon.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html