skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DevOps is like programming: unlimited/infinite.

First things that come to mind:

- You can create puppet modules, Chef recipes, SaltStack formulas (not familiar with Ansible but sure as hell has similar features)

- You can get certifications (Chef, Puppet, SaltStack, Ansible, etc.)

- You can get DB certifications and write your experiences about master/slave configurations, etc.

- Orchestration and schedulers tools, k8s, mesos/marathon.

- You can get certified for AWS, GCE and Azure.

- Became proficient in Bash, Fabric/Capistrano. Display some automation scripts on your blog/github-repo. Can you configure a firewall to fetch a list of IPs (say porn websites) from the internet and block or redirect access to these IPs using bash?

- Study distributed systems, replication, possible problems (split brain, etc.). How does consul/etcd/zookeeper reach consensus. When to use one tool over another, why not use Redis instead of consul?!

- Study big data on Coursera (hadoop/cloudera/HDFS/MapReduce)...

It's a never-ending story. Just take a look at look[1] at what companies are requesting. A devops should be able to write code (with varying degrees of expertise) and understand architectural/design challenges. I'm not saying you need to know everything - you can't, there are simply too many tools around - but you have to learn at least some of them and you can explain what you learn via blog posts or github code.

[1] https://weworkremotely.com/categories/6-devops-sysadmin/jobs...
Which is why this would be a dangerous precedent for the kinds of political comedies that rely on copyright protection for their existence. Unfortunately, that's pretty much all the ones that matter.
> Charity has been shown to be less efficient than just giving money directly to poor people.

Can you provide sources for this? Also, what do you mean "efficient"? If you mean there's no overhead, sure, so long as you don't spend any time trying to determine where the need is and just hand cash to the homeless guy you see on the street, but I care about effectiveness, and that's very likely not going to be "give money to the guy on the street near my office".

GveDirectly is better than most charities (which is mostly just giving money to poor people, but is a charity that does it intelligently). Additionally, the Against Malaria Foundation probably has a higher effectiveness.

The problem with depending 100% on people giving to charity is not that it's worse than depending on them giving money to the poor. It's that it completely ignores the various externalities that can be corrected through taxes and government spending. Would the world be better off if we cut government spending in half and send that money to AMF, GiveDirectly, and similar programs? Sure. But would the world be better off if we just cut government spending and hoped rich people would become more altruistic? Probably not.
The very link you posted refers to the problems that human rights lawyers face in China. They are estimated to number only a few dozen, in a country of 1.3 billion citizens. (This info is right there in your link!)

It's absurd to compare this environment to the ACLU.

In 1986, Gorbachev released Andrei Sakharov from internal exile. I guess you would have been saying: "That's it, the West can stop harping about human rights in the Soviet Union, it's all equal now"...?
Seems right. Since we already implemented 1984, the next logical step is to make Black Mirror a reality. I'm looking forward to retiring as a social media coach.
Agree. Every article doesn't need to recap the context. The average Times reader is no doubt familiar with China's and the UNCLOS's conflicting definitions of territorial waters around the South China Sea.
Make no mistakes I have my own bias. But the more interesting point to consider is that, as the article points out, Chinese government is actively trying to build trust with the people. Yes, every government tries to do that, but not many actually succeed. See http://www.pewglobal.org/2013/05/23/chapter-1-national-and-e...

Yes, there are corruptions and scandals every now and then, but those culprits get dealt with whenever a large percentage of the people are concerned about it. So in the end, majority of the people are indeed happy with the government.

So having said all of these, yes, my comments come across as propaganda to you, but consider it the other way round, would you defend your government's controversial policies? In other words, are you willing to "spread propaganda" out of your own will for your government's policies (on abortion, taxes, immigration, surveillance laws)? Chances are, about half of the population would not (based on approval ratings and voting patterns).

So you see, while some countries focuses on having people constantly challenging and keeping the government in check, others focuses on building trust between the government and the people. And hence, to answer your question, yes, it's propaganda, but I do it out of my trust in my government. That is something I see most foreigners struggle to understand because it goes against their belief.

Think of it another way, every government is simply trying to make their country great, and that includes making people happy and maintaining their mandate. Just because one approach is different from the rest, does not mean it is ill-intended or evil. There is no reason at all for any government to do something unpopular with majority of people. The only chance for something bad to happen is when the government is completely out of touch with the people. It happened a few times in the past in China. It is happening now in the U.S. But I don't see it happening in China any time soon.
Republicans voted for Donald Trump. He is a true reflection of your principles and priorities arrived upon after careful reflection.

You have left no doubt for which a benefit could be given.
I bet winning in a lottery feels a lot different to receiving your regular allowance the same as everyone else. I think this would affect behaviour.
No nukes were fired.

Only by some divine Providence. Or this guy:

Vasili Arkhipov
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili_Arkhipov

Thank you Vasili Arkhipov, the man who stopped nuclear war
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/oct/27/vasili...

You (and Almost Everyone You Know) Owe Your Life to This Man.
http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2016/03/25/you-and-a...
Why can't we compile it to native? Lisp wasn't even designed to be run by computers, but that didn't stop Steve Russel.
Ask HN: Why so many dupes of the article “Oracle finally targets Java non-payers”
If you look at submissions from theregister.co.uk (https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=theregister.co.uk) you'll notice an article has been posted not one, not two, but five times in the past ~48 hours, and by real accounts that have existed for much longer than 48 hours. Maybe I'm just too new to HN, but I don't think I've ever seen something reposted this many times and with such frequency.

Any ideas why there are so many reposts?
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It also could be that Oracle realized the customers had some degree of perceived lock-in, so they jacked the price up to milk the customers dry on license renewal time. The customers paid once because they had little alternative, but started their transition to something new as soon as they could. The well will run dry quickly. They do the same thing with Oracle DB license audits, and burned CIOs pay the penalty and instruct their teams to start removing as much Oracle as they can as fast as they can so it doesn't happen again.
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>"That's mathematically impossible."

It's not. Increased profit can be made from the sale of fewer goods. There's nothing impossible about it.

>"Increasing the velocity of money is actually inflationary. Your proposal to solve inflation is...to have more inflation? That's like saying the cure for hunger is to not eat."

Is it though? Velocity of money does not necessarily move inflation in a single direction. Prices can rise and fall, based on supply and demand. If what you're suggesting is true, how does the liquidity of a market always result in inflation? It's also worth noting that healthy markets rely on a moderate level of inflation to counteract the value taken away from a market by inactive assets (such as housing).
I've never seen a database that has a extra tool for configuring and managing listeners for tcp/http whatever + the wierd syntax for configuring those.
And who here thinks that LinkedIn, FaceBook, Google aren't gathering similar data points? Just a matter of time...
I don't believe that; it's a roundabout way of saying that you have no interest in political conversation at all. Yet here you are.
Except no one gets to higher rate tax by working more hours. They get there by working approximately the same hours and being paid more for them. So they're not "taking a pay cut per hour", they're just not getting as much benefit from raising their rates as they would otherwise.

No one is going to refuse a salary bump because it will increase their marginal tax rate.
It is the opinion of almost every other country in the world that these are international waters. China doesn't get to change the facts of international law just by claiming there's a "dispute".

I looked back through your comment history. I don't mean to accuse you of anything, but if I were someone from the Chinese government whose job was to argue for the positions of the Chinese government on HN, I think I would sound...a lot like you.
While the War on Drugs wasn't completely rooted in racism, it is a verifiable fact that it's inception was heavily rooted in it: http://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_income_tax

Negative income tax (more emphasis) + basic income (less emphasis) would be a better system. A negative income tax would encourage people to work. Basic income by itself may just remove some barriers to working but may not result in a change (basic income > costs).
SaaS that is open source makes sense when you provide something that would be
difficult or troublesome to achieve with running the thing on-premise. Good
network connection with high uptime is one such thing. Keeping the software
updated, populated with plugins, or a management panel for spinning up many
separate instances could be another.
Yes, I think they are wrong. I understand your point, but not your intention.

Cultures are different. Some cultures are better than others. I think western culture is the best and I would like everyone to experience the same freedoms we do.
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Does Galileo change this at all? Or is it just more better GPS,GLONASS,...
Oh, sorry, I never bothered to change the function name. It's just an interesting loop.
The US is headed for a similar system:

- Class A : US citizen, registered voter, passed scrutiny level for Global Entry, gun license, or security clearance. Gets to use fast lane at airport security. Eligible for national security related jobs.

- Class B: US citizen, registered voter, not approved for Global Entry or gun license. Gets to vote.

- Class C: US citizen, non registered voter. Gets to live in US permanently, but can't currently vote. Can hold most jobs.

- Class D: US citizen, felony conviction. Cannot vote, ineligible for many jobs, cannot serve on jury or hold public office.

- Class F: US permanent resident. Cannot vote, ineligible for many jobs.

- Class G: Non-US citizen with temporary visa. Cannot vote, jobs limited or work prohibited, behavior monitored by ICE and CBP.

- Class H: Illegal alien. Deport on sight.
Sorry, nope: back in my student days, I tried that combination on more than one occasion and greatly enjoyed it!
I would have liked to see a discussion of "maximizing shareholder value".
Exactly. It's not important... Except for the interview - Which is my point.
Do China's claims really extend to where the drone was seized? According to reports, it was about 50nm northwest of the Phillipines. As best as I can determine, it happened outside the nine-dash line, which is what the dispute is over.

If their claims go that far, that seems almost absurd.
not really. russia hacked our election and we did nothing
Rockin' the desktop.
I like the artistic gradient these downvoted comments created [0]

[0] https://sli.mg/QxRQuL
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I gotta get a giggle. Not that I'm mocking 60 hour work weeks, that's still a lot of hours no doubt. But whenever I read 60 hour work weeks as a big deal I just think back to my time as a chef. I think the max I capped out was 120 hours a week, and I did that for 5 weeks straight before contracting pneumonia due to a cold I got sometime within that period. Never again. Hell...10 hours of work per week is enough to discourage me these days heh.
Russia, China, and other nations regularly send ships much closer to the US than this ship was to China.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/04/25/pentagon-russian-...
https://www.rt.com/usa/russian-nuclear-sub-gertz-097/

The US response was:

> "We respect the freedom of all nations, as reflected in international law, to operate military vessels beyond the territorial seas of other nations."

Here are reports of Russian plans and ships patrolling the Californian coast in 2014:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-jets-fly-to-california-co...
Is "in association with the geography" a tacit admission that the Chinese claim[0] appears ludicrous when you look at it? I could jot down lines on a map[1] too, and it wouldn't make it any more sane.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_disputes_in_the_So...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine-Dash_Line
"Off the coast of California" isn't really a good comparison though.

The sub was seized something like 50 miles from Subic Bay in the Philippines. In international waters. A long way from the coast of China.

So it would be more like a Russian sub cruising around Venezuela or something.
The Heimlich maneuver is one of those things that's much more recent than I imagined. (Another is the bicycle, the modern design of which is only from the late 1800s, just a few decades before the automobile and airplane.)
I am by no means denigrating the man's accomplishments, he certainly was a great man. However, it is worth noting that he became something of a quack, advocating that the maneuver could cure various ailments unrelated to choking.[0] The linked Radio Lab episode provides a full picture of the man and is very interesting.

[0] http://www.radiolab.org/story/273532-heimlich/
I agree. The article isn't consistent. It references the

> Lemon, cocoa, and curry don’t sound great, but it’s not too hard to imagine a decent lemon mole sauce.

> Salted cucumbers, sugar, and yogurt might work, but if you count the salt, that’s four ingredients, not three.

Mole sauces seem to contain quite a bit more than 3 ingredients, such as chili peppers [1]. If salt counts as a single ingredient, then surely a mole sauce is extremely disqualified. Sugar should also be considered an ingredient.

> Tiffany Inglis, a programmer and digital artist, took some time a few years ago to design a lemon affogato, in order to patently prove that a top Incompatible Food Triad contender—espresso, lemon, and milk—wasn’t so bad after all.

Here is the list of 5-8 ingredients in that affogato [2]:

- 1 cup milk

- 1cup sugar

- ¼ cup condensed milk

- 5 egg yolks, lightly beaten

- 5tbsp lemon zest

- ½ cup fresh lemon juice

- 2 cups heavy cream

- 1 shot of espresso

In my opinion, the only reasonable way of approaching this problem is to strictly limit what counts as an ingredient and to carefully limit the amount of preparation involved to count ingredients as "paired". This way, pickles actually count as two ingredients, due to the vinegar involved. Sugar also cannot be assumed as a glue to bind the triad together. "Curry", being a mixture, could also not count as an ingredient. Therefore, I propose my own solution:

chili powder + espresso = spicy espresso

espresso + lemon juice = sour espresso

chili powder + diluted lemon juice = spicy lemonade

chili power + lemon juice + espresso = spicy sour espresso (bad)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mole_sauce

[2]: https://www.theguardian.com/science/alexs-adventures-in-numb...
Except you can just barely live on student benefit. Either you take debt or work, so I don't think the two can be compared.

For me I was bumping on the limits while on receiving student benefit, so it made no sense for me to work any more hours than I did. Had I worked any more, the pay would have been effectively zero, which is crazy in my opinion.
The problem is that the Times takes a side rather than reporting independently.

It's a glaring editorial error to present a dispute as being concluded with your own opinion. That's what the Times has done. Whether its readership is aware of it or not.

I furthermore disagree with the assertion that the average Times reader is no doubt familiar with the context.

I find it troubling you present the context improperly yourself (China v. UNCLOS) in writing your opinion here.
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If everything still has to go through an X server, what has Wayland accomplished? Is Xwayland just going to become a more easily maintained substitute for Xorg? I can't imagine writing anything other than a twitch game as a raw Wayland client that's completely unusable except on the one and only small computer under my desk.
The Gulf of Tokin involved an actual "attack"/rounds fired not seizure of equipment. It's a different order of magnitude.
that is actually a sign of a smart and high functioning engineering team

Do you know what auto makers do in this kind of situation? They build a test track and a workshop at the test track and probably a larger facility adjacent to it, and situate the engineers there. They don't say "well, our engineers live in one of the densest urban areas in the country, let's just test our new car there to be close to them".

Uber should get a test track out in the desert or something and relocate some engineers to it. And maybe without the distractions of the SF office they'd manage to get some basic stuff tested, like "recognizes red lights" or "understands how to turn from the rightmost lane".
China has a pretty big problem of corruption and in general people doing bad things (with the smallest being line cutting). Probably why they're resorting to such drastic measures, and obviously such measures will be abused or have side effects of being used to silence dissenters.
I think he's suggesting that you could add the same functionality using lisp as a preprocessor without having to write what is objectively C semantics weapped in s-exps.
Nope.

The point I was making is that across US broadcasting, there has been an attempt to associate the geography "South China Sea" with the term "International Waters."
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Ask for permission to publish, or do interviews of those that sent you messages about their own process. Ask them for their criticism of what on the site helped and didn't help and publish that, too. That might help others.
> I think western culture is the best

I thought that Westerners finally agreed that cultural imperialism is bad? Yet here you are proclaiming the superiority of Western culture over all other cultures.

It's wrong to judge another culture without having lived in it yourself for some time.

I don't even mean this on a just moral level, but simply on a practical one -- if you've never lived somewhere, how do you know if their society works well or not? It's very easy to get incorrect impressions from news or talking to people.
Well, that's because it's international waters.

There's also an attempt by China to associate the geography "Taiwan" with "China", when it's obviously a separate country.
This is a great question. And 6 months after the last update is a good time to be asking it.

It's much less efficient for both YC and individuals if every interested individual started emailing and asking for updates. Much better this way - after all that's why broadcast or pub-sub systems exist. HN is kind of a curated broadcast system.

It often happens that people who're working on the project might not find 'right now' to be the ideal time to share updates. This could be either because they're immersed thinking through a particularly challenging aspect of the problem/solution, or they feel a little lost (which is a normal feeling in the middle of ambitious projects). Sharing an update at that point makes you feel vulnerable, but that's exactly what you need to do.

Or it could be that they have a really promising angle and want to see more data before writing something up. The 'more data' approach is usually a mirage (promising approaches start showing potential even at early stages/small scale) and sharing progress helps the project even in that case. (For example, you might learn that a similar approach has been tried before, and here is what someone learnt).
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If you made $32.05 dollars per hour for 30 hours a week (50K a year) and paid 10% tax on those dollars, you would earn an effective after tax hourly rate of $28.84. If all dollars earned after 50K were then taxed at 15%, your effective after tax hourly rate for working more than 30 hours would be $27.24. A one dollar and six cent reduction. I believe the purpose of time and a half overtime is partly to correct this problem.
My understanding is that despite a lot of hilariously vague statements, the Chinese have never made a formal claim to this area, and what limited claims they have made have been rejected by tribunal in the Hague.

Thus, international waters.
>> Salted cucumbers, sugar, and yogurt might work, but if you count the salt, that’s four ingredients, not three. You might not like the thought of potatoes, mayonnaise and cabbage, but someone has invented a corned beef salad that has all three.

>So, which is it? "More than 3 ingredients doesn't count" or "it counts as long as it contains all 3"?

Not sure what the confusion is, but neither of the two examples counts as "three foods where any two of those foods taste good together, but all three combined taste disgusting". The first example fails (if you count the salt) because it has four foods, not three. The second example fails because someone has made a (presumably non-disgusting) recipe with all three combined.
That sounds a lot like an accusation.

I have been accused of being a Clinton Supporter, a Trump Supporter, a Communist, a Fascist, a Liberal, an American, a Russian, a Chinaman, Greek (I was talking about Cyprus), and a number of other things. I have been accused of being paid or not.

I have told everyone the same thing. I am an American. My opinions are not for sale and have never been bought.
I'm pretty sure you can make a dessert from ricotta and espresso. A coffee canoli sounds delicious.
Russia and Cyber: Challenges and Opportunities for the Next U.S. Administration
Even incognito mode doesn't work for me with the web link, on chromium, linux.
IMHO it's dumb to limit the libraries to just two files. Whether or not a library is included in the list should be determined on a per-library basis. Some header-only libraries simply require more than one header file or the source code becomes an absolute mess.
Reporting both claims equally when one of them is clearly bogus is ruining US politics already.
It's not just for dead code elimination that externs are needed but also for identifier renaming (for minimisation).

This is a very welcome feature!
It actually makes publications LESS credible if they were to publish chinese government propaganda.