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Bookmark this for when some makes an impassioned argument about how the market can independently solve problems without regulatory intervention.
This account has been posting a lot of unsubstantive comments, but this one is right out of nowhere. Please stop.
I was the only one that laughed out loud reading the title while seeing Twitter and Facebook share buttons on top of the article?
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I suspect Smith was ahead of Russel at his best. As I recall, Smith gets good treatment by many other historians.
We primarily use Java 8, but I'd imagine a lot of people have raised it
+1 for Arq. I use the 1TB of storage I get with my Office 365 subscription to backup my Documents, keys, photos, and other volatile files. Everything else gets backed up to AWS Glacier.
Well if it is 20% of the total green house gas effect then we should be willing to sell them carbon tax credits. Looking at how creatively Tesla used them I'm guessing you could entirely offset the cost of feeding the cattle with credits.
The thing is to recognize them as demons and ignore them. That's the ... fundamental idea behind Stoicism.
"After I was done They relocated me to a tiny basement room and kept 'forgetting' to give me any new tasks until I quit out of boredom."

That sounds like a reward to me. If it weren't for the ethical cost you mention in the rest of your post, I'd take that job in a heartbeat.

If someone wants to pay me for doing nothing, I can find plenty of things that interest me to do on their time.

On the other hand, I guess "doing nothing" doesn't look too great on your resume. And if you don't learn new skills or work with new tech, that would cost you in the long run. But I could at least work on some open source projects or learn a new language or something. That way I could have something to show for my time, and have fun as well.
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Don't use it if you require low latency - performance is abysmal and the bottleneck is Lambda overhead that you cannot influence.
Also, if you don't have a high traffic function, cold start is also an issue, at least when using Java. There is a "hack" to avoid this issue: create a cloudwatch check that triggers your function every minute or so. This sounds weird but if you consider that this is good practice, this gives you an overview how production-ready Lambda is. Nice thing is that is's pretty cheap though.
I was asked a couple of time to write illegal code or hand over log data to management which they are not allowed to see. In Europe we still have working privacy protection laws, you know.

I always said no, and management always reacted professionally and accepted it. Maybe they just don't know software or privacy laws that well.

Having a clean conscience trumps all, and in the end you will have troubles, not your management.
Its enough to believe you may lose your job. Most people can't afford to find out if that's really the case.
I used to work for a place with serious ethics issues. We'd sell customized software packages along with a hardware solution, used by cities and counties. Once I was told that, per the contract, we were supposed to hand over the hardware and software for a system the next day. The software hadn't been customized or prepared in any way. Because of a loophole in the contract, it specified only delivery, not installation. So I was ordered to rent a van, load up the hardware, drive it and the software down to the county in question, and hand it all over. They handed me a data tape with the name of the county printed on it, we loaded the van, and sent I headed down.

You can imagine how well it went. I got there, and the two heads of the project down there were waiting, and expecting not only to take delivery, but to see it all installed and working. I had to explain that wasn't my task, and they got more and more upset with me. I had to tell them to call my boss to get answers, because I was just a drone. After yelling at my boss, I was instructed to do minimal setup to verify the hardware worked. I did so, but then they insisted that I prove that the tape had the software. When I did, it unfortunately showed the wrong county name, because whoever had made the tape just took another installation tape and put the "wrong" name on it. I had to tap dance a bit there, but I finally got to leave. So, unhappy me (which meant nothing to my boss) and unhappy customers (which I got blamed for).

Another time, they told me to put a label on a blank tape and ship it to a customer, to pretend to meet a delivery milestone. I refused. I think my boss did it himself.
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Another link: http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2016/11/15/wal-mart-tell...

Interesting:

Wal-Mart has instructed store managers to tell their employees
that the app wasn't made by the company and described it as a
scheme to gather workers' personal information, according to a
document viewed by The Wall Street Journal.
Just to play devil's advocate here, this is from the article:

> The app, called WorkIt, invites users to register by providing a name, email, telephone number and ZIP Code. Users can also s hare (sic) their job title and Wal-Mart store number....

That is a bunch of personally identifying information. You can easily steal somebody's identity with those bits of information, or at least have a good idea of who they are. I see how Walmart's corporate line is at least somewhat believable upon further thought.

And there has been no disclosure on how they're storing this information. Are they storing it on AWS/GCE/Azure or Linode? Or do they have their own locked down racks that safeguard this information?

Look, I'm not saying that there's anything malicious about this, or the Walmart isn't trying to bust worker collaboration. But, in today's security conscious world, you really should ask these questions when you're requesting PII to sign up to your app.

And malice vs carelessness doesn't matter when your personal information is leaked all over the web.
This is very reasonable. Technically, today, it is a bit of a challenge to ensure it gets delivered in such a way as to not hurt more than it helps, and to ensure it remains active. But at this point that kind of auto-manufacturing of a therapeutic an 'engineering problem' rather than a 'scientific problem'.

as an aside: Curiously, in the lab at least, most of those therapies are delivered using a 'gutted' version of HIV (precisely because it is so good at delivering genetic payloads to humans). So there's a pretty good chance you'd be using an engineered version of HIV's own machinery to deliver a permanent anti-HIV payload to the patient's genome.
Out of curiosity, I wonder how it compares with computer power used for ad placement prediction.
The Iron Ring is mostly symbolic and a tradition, but protection of public is the whole idea behind the Professional Engineer licenses in a lot of countries (I'm mostly familiar with Canada).

Unfortunately, laws seem awefully traditional and outdated, and at least some of the system has turned into a form of rent seeking. Even as a mechanical engineer, most of my work is not really considered as engineering work to the letter of the law, because the law was written in the 1960s with mostly civil works in mind. I get the feeling it's either going to take a long time or a huge catastrophy for legislators to catch up to licensing for professional software work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_and_licensure_in_en...
Exactly. Blocking sites doesn't solve the issues, if anything it makes things worse. We need to be able to respectfully debate people we disagree with, not shut them out.

This video pretty much outlines what I think about the recent US election and how I think we should look to move on from it:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GLG9g7BcjKs
Appreciate your feedback very much, and apologize if my opinions were a little too bombastic themselves. I saw an AWS employee disparage a customer opinion, without disclosing their allegiances, and wanted to set things right :)

For what it's worth, James Watters (Pivotal VP) agrees with the overall sentiments of the article[0].

To the folks on this thread, please don't hesitate to reach out with any feedback or suggestions directly.

[0]https://twitter.com/wattersjames/status/800030791954677760
> If one of them were to get too invested in the ideas described here, he'd be chastized by the other, or by a manager, or the rest of his team collectively, and potentially replaced.

But at least they'd then be in the clear, ethically speaking, and their employer will be on notice that this is not cool, even if they do eventually find someone willing to carry out their unethical deeds. If no one stands up for what's right, the managers will just be reinforced in their belief that they can do whatever they want.

Most developers are in a much better position to stand up for this sort of thing than people in industries with less worker demand. If my company asked me to do something unethical, I could quit on the spot and have a new, better job in under a week. No, not all developers are on such good footing, but there are many, many categories of job where employment security is so low that quitting over an ethical quandary would be unthinkable.
> The app, released on Android phones Monday

Why Android only?
We're actually both right: there are two patients referred to as "The Berlin patient." The first one is a man who was given an unusual ART regimen and has been able to stay off of it for an indefinite time, with low circulating levels of HIV. But this isn't the person that most physicians think of when we talk about the Berlin patient. Rather, we're thinking of the man who had a bone marrow transplant and has been truly cured.
And have been for years the late Daniel D. McCracken do work on this way back.
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> Bare with me for a second, would it not be better to somehow overlay a meter or light indicating that this story is likely false. Even better, some sort of indicator that showed the # of sources (if any) and devised some sort of rating of quality/truthfulness.

This is an interesting idea. Perhaps we need a public PageRank algorithm and database of pages and domains that could evolve over time. Then the browser addon could just overlay the score of the current page's public rank (and perhaps have a menu showing a list of known outside pages/domains that link to the current page/domain).
Well, it's more that it's a passive aggressive response to Trump winning, by timing, wording, etc.
We gave it a run in prod and abandoned it quickly. We were using it for parallel file processing (S3->lambda for CPU-heavy task->return a few numbers in a JSON).

Last I calculated, it's nearly 5x the cost of comparable t2 on-demand EC2 instances. That can be mitigated if you have spiky traffic where you'd need to turn on several EC2 instances for less than an hour but are stuck paying for the full hour, or if you can scale to zero for extended periods of time.

Critical to us: you don't have the ability to serve concurrent requests from a single lambda worker, so if you're waiting for async IO (e.g. downloading from S3) then you're wasting money you wouldn't be wasting with EC2. You end up with one file per lambda worker, whereas we could handle about five files concurrently on a normal VM because of async IO. -- For us lambda was prohibitively expensive at scale. I suspect a fair number of people reporting significant savings vs EC2 had over-provisioned instances.
Disable any adblockers when watching that.
Helpfully providing us with an example of survivor bias, though!
It's hard to buy an iPhone on Walmart wages.
I find it fascinating how paternalistic this whole topic is, and "Stop the Bullshit" is part of this. The goal is not developing independent thinkers, but merely ensuring that blind trust is given to the "enlightened people".

The whole idea behind this sort of filtering and vetting is not about teaching people how better to reason about the world and judging the truth of those that would tell you what is happening and why, but rather it says that most people are incapable of making those types of decisions for themselves and that an informed elite should be in control of what information is available to the plebs. Once you concede this, how far is it before we make "fake news", or rather unapproved news, simply illegal? How long until news simply becomes propaganda?

There absolutely is a problem with "fake news" from all quarters and it is nothing new at all: whether that was "bat boy" at the grocery checkout, the sinking of the Maine, or the news and characterizations during the recent campaign. "Stop the Bullshit" and filtering efforts is not a solution to the problem, merely the creation of new problems such an even less thoughtful populous and a new set of arbiters of the truth that I for one won't trust any more that the current ones.
Those countries have a duty to their own people. American jobs for American citizens.
A couple of companies I have worked for have tried company social networking e.g. with Yammer or Tibbr. It doesn't work because companies are fundamentally not social. Like, am I suppose to follow my manager, and his manager, and her manager? Do I have to "like" what they say even if I know it's complete nonsense? Will it be noticed if I'm the only one that doesn't? Can I ever post an honest status, or comment on anything? Is my "friends" list being used to judge me? Does my "engagement" with this project, which was mandated by the CEO, affect my annual appraisal, because you can bet it's tracked.

And it doesn't help that the software itself is universally bad, if it were ever exposed to the public internet where people had a choice to use it or not, it would sink without trace...
I use rsnaphot, with ssh to backup remote hosts/servers.
Why do browser makers keep implementing new ways for companies to spy on end users? I had expected better of Mozilla.

The response to the web of trust shit show should have been to neuter add ons.
This is simpler to calculate than you might assume - you need only find the velocity after one half life and double it. Doing that gives you 15.4 km/s.

Of course this is considering only the decay of the plutonium and none of the active decay products. I've also disregarded the decrease in mass over time.
While I like the friendly notification/explanation, any tool targeting fake news should do a little better in establishing its own credibility. You want to persuade, not block. I'm not sure the dollar amount is enough. We see it in these very comments: show the user a sample of obvious falsehoods they published. This way you could probably come up with a threshold where you just give up.
All the 4 points are covered by our service.

The workflow looks as follows:

You login at wpdemo.cloud, create a template, customize it as you wish (install your product etc.), click 'Update Template' button.

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Unused demos are also garbage collected.

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It's curious, because in the near future monoclonal antibodies, as produced by your own body, should be the very cheapest 'drugs' (sic; read 'therapy' or 'cure') to make. If your own body is the manufacturing plant, it's just the cost of delivering the blueprints, once (very cheap).

You design the monoclonal antibody, figure out its sequence, deliver the sequence back into your own body (via some HIV-like virus), and now your body has an unlimited continuous access to the therapeutic.

Production of the therapeutic-delivering virus could be done in such a way as to produce a global scale for a small amount of money that would never need to be administered again. For example, in lab I can produce enough (lab quality) purified protein for a single one-time dose for a few thousand dollars and a week's work. On the other hand, I could produce enough therapeutic virus for dozens of people to forever produce their own versions of that same protein for a few hundreds dollars and an afternoon's work. This is very unlike any other 'drug' of the 20th century.
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android is more prevalent in lower income workers. More of the potential users would use android thus they develop on the predominant platform first.
Reading the comments posted on the AWS vs GCE thread, I would say trolling the competitor? It's so obvious they are not even trying to hide it.
"Locked down racks" is complete FUD. It's not like there's HIPAA or PCI compliance issues here. Incompetently managed bare metal servers are just as hackable, perhaps more so, than incompetently used cloud IaaS. Workers should be careful, but storage has absolutely nothing to do with this.
I'm still that guy that is always right some moments. Just hours ago I said Android would absolutely suck as a base OS for a musical instrument and in general any general purpose OS would be inferior to something created from the ground up to have tight audio and MIDI timing. There's stuff running a Z80 from '80s that is tighter than Macs just to prove that.

And I had to correct everybody, reply after reply on reply.

Somebody was wrong on the internet.

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/duty_calls.png

On the other hand I always assume I write code just to throw it away and replace it with something better once I understand what I really should have written. I'm glad I'm not building houses or something. I would have to demolish a lot of houses half way ;)
Dropbox + spideroak.

Dropbox for non sensitive stuff and spideroak for complete PC backup.
People used to read newspapers while sitting on the crapper. In the 90s it wasn't uncommon to go to the bathroom in someone's house and there to be a stack of magazines on the windowsill...
If you are an American based company you should only be hiring American Citizens.
You can say that until you're blue in the face, but nobody believes it anymore. This sort of block list has already been used to justify the blocking of completely legitimate (albeit right wing) news sites from Google.

The fact of the matter is this isn't a spam filter, no matter how much you want to spin it that way. Anytime I see the phrase "fake news" I know for sure there's political bias at play. That phrase didn't exist in any real way before the election.
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merb, I apologize for getting a little heated. I saw an AWS employee attack a customer opinion (without disclosing their employer), and I wanted to set things right.

On the feedback, I hear you. Please reach out to me offline for a further discussion (if you want).
As primarily a web developer this wasn't the case for me, but now that I'm essentially all in on VR the problem has become acute.

For the first time in a decade I went out and built a desktop.
A teacher of mine told us, "Don't try to imagine 4D space. You can't. If you think you can imagine a 4D hypersphere, you're wrong. It's just not possible."

And everytime someone talks about how to imagine higher-dimensional space, I have to think back, and I'm convinced that my teacher was right. Our intuitive understanding of 2D and 3D just doesn't generalise to higher dimensions.

A hypersphere is nothing like a sphere, just like a sphere is nothing like a circle, which is again nothing like a line segment.

If you talk about multidimensional geometries, stick to the math, and don't try imagining it. Analogies to 2D or 3D objects (it's smooth, but like a spike) are pointless and don't lead to new insights. We really need to stick to precise, mathematical language if we want to work with higher dimensional geometry.
This seems like literally the stupidest thing they could prioritize.
Time Machine + Backblaze.
Forums tend to become fragmented over time because as the number of active users increases, the diversity of the opinions of the community increases. Such increased diversity results in an increase in opposing viewpoints, which drives users away and increases the frequency of political in-fighting.

There are no moderation tools at present which can prevent this sort of in-fighting with blatant censorship.

In the absence of such tools, the only viable solution is a fragmentation of the community. This is most apparent to HN readers with the rise of lobste.rs
Snowden was leading the public polls for Times Magazin man of the year 2013. They had to put the new pope before him.

And now Assange is leading the public polls for 2016. They will put Trump before him.
try medtitation
When I was earning my CS degree, Ethics was a mandatory course. As it was for other engineering majors as well.

Having been in the industry a while I think the worst thing I have been asked to do was participate in a program that installed our software on the user's machine without their consent. The CEO argued they did give their consent, which was technically true... they could uncheck the "Install partner apps" checkbox before clicking next but it wasn't very obvious.

Thing is, that practice is (was? I hope) common everywhere from Yahoo, AOL, etc... so it was one of those "Everyone is doing it" things.

I pushed back pretty hard but ended up losing the battle. In hindsight I wish I had walked. Ethics aside, none of the customers who got our app this way gave us very good reviews and their lifetime value was way less than customers acquired other ways.
Or you could just mandate all toilets to be open to the public. Like, for example, in Israel.
Like these cases are no much worse than all the people who have been fired for being gay or experienced employment discrimination over their gender or gender identity.
You don't need to have thousands of others appreciate Ice Ice Baby and create an ecosystem of libraries and tooling around it.

But a successful language requires those things, for the masses (not the early adopters). That creates glacial inertia, even for individuals.
Censorship is not the best way forward. People need to adjust (read: acquire) critical thinking skills. But let's start with the media. For example, quoting unvetted tweaks should be grounds for shaming, or worse.

In addition,it should be not that this tool can be used to apply any prejudice, bias, etc. I certainly empathize with the sentiment here but this can quickly becomes a case of be careful what you wish for.
Interestingly enough, a comment above well taken by qwertyuiop924 rewrote the example who is well versed in Lisp. Hmmm. Isn't that interesting?
I don't use OAuth ever, because:

advantages:

1. log in once; be logged in everywhere

2. no password manager required because you have only one (or maybe a few) logins

disadvantages (I'll just keep numbering to give it unique IDs):

3. if the provider is down, you can't login

4. the provider knows when and where you log in

5. if you decide to delete your account at the provider, you can't log in anymore

6. if the provider decides to delete your account because, say, you bought a fake Nexus (or what was the story recently?) or because you forgot to pay or just because there is a glitch on their end, you've got a problem

7. if your account gets hacked, everything got hacked.

I just don't see how that tiny bit of convenience weighs up to all the issues of having a SPOF whose trustworthiness is questionable to begin with.
The author implies that there is no value in social media. It seems to me that there is value in social media. Effective usage of social media can build networks and be an alternative to meetups.

I think a valid solution is to limit social media usage to within specific windows (eg: only use social media for 1 hour per day)