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Do you mind me asking if you are self-employed? The rhythm you describe very exciting, but impossible in most work places. What you are doing though is probably the only work pattern that surely qualifies as "a sprint".
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this is the core of the problem between Devs and sysadmins. Sysadmins come from a mindset of a polished working system which never needs to change. They deliver stability and reliability to the business.

Devs come from a mindset to actively create change. This is to add new features and deliver new value and product to the business. As a Dev I do have to say that many Devs don't have enough experience in operations to understand properly how to help sysadmins, many don't understand the complexities of that job.

These two perspectives are at odds, and they should be. The new tools, like docker, start giving everyone what they want... Devs pick their dependencies, and in theory, can't stomp on the sysadmins pristine environment.

To respond directly to your question: because there are new things available in new libraries that allow us to develop new features!
As someone who frequently works on teams of 10 or less this is exactly what I'm worried about. Trello is a great tool for our needs. I've been in bigger orgs that used JIRA and understand why that made sense, but I'd resent having to use it on a small team.
Pick your poison.

If you run into a bug or problem with a 3rd party component (open source library, commercial tool, whatever), one of the first things they are going to ask you to do is upgrade. The fact you're on an old version of some library is an easy (and sometimes correct) scapegoat for problems.

Put yourself in the 3rd party's shoes: if you spend a bunch of time trying to fix a problem that turns out to be a bug in a separate library that's already been fixed, that's entirely wasted time.

The same goes for direct usage: you're likely to spend time fixing problems that have already been fixed.
It's pretty disheartening to know that the Swedish press won't touch this with a 10-foot pole; they're busy digging/drumming up the "good ole" Russian Scare from the 60s/70s right now amidst the sabre-rattling coming, frankly, largely from the West.
If that 'collective of one's legitimately only needs one worker, then that isn't a problem. If someone else joins him later then he has to share the MoP.

I fail to see the logical inconsistency.
What everyone forgets when they're trying to talk about how to be as effective as Jobs is that yes, he was a tryant ruling with an iron fist, he was a crazy asshole, etc, but he was also right, almost all the time. He knew what he wanted and he knew what would work and he knew what what in his power to create, and he made sure it got created. People try to replicate his management style without having that last quality.

If you're a madman tyrant asshole and your product is OnLive[1], you're just a madman tyrant asshole with a failed product because you didn't realize that your company's problems are far outside your scope of control.

If you're a madman tyrant asshole and your product instantly destroys two of the only three major smartphone OSes on the market at the time, you're Steve Jobs.

[1](I'm just picking on them as a failed startup, I have no idea what their CEO's management style was.)
Germany will extradite in most cases. Here is the treaty if you want to read the fine print http://www.mcnabbassociates.com/Germany%20International%20Ex...
A lot of communists posit that capitalism (and perhaps in some cases statism) cause and/or arise from something kind of resembling a mental illness. Marx's "Alienation" and especially Delueze's "Desire" have this flavor. I think this is one reason why there's a whole brand of communism that's closely tied to Freudian/Lacanian style psychology.

That psychological aspect usually plays some role in transitionary theories for certain brands of communism, especially anti-statist brands. Although nailing down exactly what role it's supposed to play is usually pretty difficult, it's fair to say that the answer to your question would -- for a lot of anarcho-communists -- boil down to something related to these psychological theories.

This post may sound uncharitable to those communists. And I don't agree with their theories. But I also think that their work contributes something very important to discussion of fringe political theory:

Flipping a psychological switch in the minds of the masses is an absolute pre-requisite for most anarchist theories.

IMO that includes anarcho-capitalism. The communists at least recognized this way earlier than everyone else and are very careful about identifying psychological theories that match well with their sociological theories.

We can argue whether psychological switch-flipping is a realistic expectation -- I'd argue not. But any time I read political theory, I try to identify where the author invokes a form of switch-flipping. 99% of the time the author just makes overly charitable assumptions about human psychology -- that's usually the case in mainstream politics. Communists sometimes have some Freudian psycho-analytical flavored theory. Anarcho-communists like Molyneux prefer weird pseudo-logical reasoning about moral axioms.

Implicit assumptions of switch-flipping show up in mainstream politics as well (IMO "drain the swamp" and "black lives matter" both make implicit assumptions about switch-flipping that under-estimate the stubbornness and importance of human psychology...)
If you take Medicare patients, the fee you charge them is the floor for everyone else. You can't charge anyone less than you charge Medicare.

The reason most facilities take Medicare is that Medicare typically covers the marginal cost (and then some) of whatever services the patient is using. You can't sell yesterday's hospital bed, so better take the pittance from Medicare than get nothing for it.
I'm British and I didn't recognise either term. I had to head for Wikipedia to translate to British English ("central reservation").
Ask HN: Do we still need browsers?
Yesterday it's been discussed about AMP protect and now seems clear to me that restricting access to publishers equals to better experience for the user --along w publishers not having a revenue stream (side note: that's another big problem and probably needs to be part of this conversation, but I'll purposely leave that aside just to focus on the user's POV)

This also could explain the ad blocker rise, which is just restricting access to publishers.

So the idea that came to me was, why do we need to consume publishers' content using regular browsers?

More so this question leads to: why do we new to use gmail client to use gmail servers?

Could browsers allow to choose what client code will load whenever I access facebook.com?

Do we need a new breed of browsers? Or can they evolve into this?
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I don't disagree with this, but very small teams (or sometimes just myself) is exactly what I use Trello for. We use it at home for shared to-do lists, idea boards (way better than Pinterest for us), etc. I realize this doesn't make them much money, but I hope they don't ruin that use case because I haven't found anything I like as well.
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That's a bit naive. If you look at World War 1, you see a series of decentralized conflicts and power struggles that snowballed into a global conflict killing millions.
My favorite is being told I can't store stuff I need on some enterprise storage solution because it is running out of space, when I know in my head a couple more terabytes of storage costs way less than the amount of effort that went into discussing it by all parties involved, and there's no effort to help me find an alternative. So it goes into a different bucket, like S3, which is what we were trying to avoid (for various on-premise benefits) in the first place.
Pfft. Amateurs!

> Once upon a time at evening I have decided to properly brake the famous browsers communication problem and as a result you have landed in here. I have created implementation of BNC networks model with simple TCP/IP layer, that as transport packet it will use browser's cookie object.

http://theprivateland.com/bncconnector/index.htm
I don't know. All these examples from the OP with bouncy animations are much too busy for me, and make the application/website feel childish.

I think Google's Material Design strikes a good balance regarding use of animations. They sometimes have very elaborate animations, but usually in very small areas where the animation becomes an easteregg rather than an annoyance. (For example, how the hamburger menu icon transforms into the back-arrow and vice versa. Or, on the Android notification panel, how the cogwheel rolls away as it fades out. That's cute.)
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My comment to you two is -- why not both?

Stability, sanity, all that is amazing, and a must have.

But also bug-fixes, security improvements, and performance improvements are wonderful too, which tends to come with using up-to-date dependencies.

The problem with the latter, as you mentioned, is when it introduces breaking API changes and is wholly not backwards compatible. This is not a "kids playing with toys wanting to experiment problem" this is a bad software problem, which is why I like Go, and why I liked Java when I was doing it full time. If the language you use has backwards compatibility as a first-class citizen, most likely the package authors will act that way too, and then the maintainers, and eventually the developers. Limit your software choices to those who care about not breaking everyone's shit every 2 weeks. Heck even when I write my own API's now that I know only my company is going to use internally I am thinking about this.
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> Only if you ignore non-monetary costs and benefits. Risk reduction/mitigation is a benefit and has a value. If it had no value, people would not bother buying insurance.

As mentioned below, expected value here refers to the flow of funds. Yes, it is different from the utility of the (guaranteed) value, which is also different from (and greater than) the expected utility of the risky action.

The monetary difference between what I'm referring to and what you're referring to, incidentally, is what economists call the premium. (The naming of "insurance premiums" is not a coincidence.)

Arrow wrote the seminal paper on understanding insurance, for anyone who's interested in how this is calculated.
Going solar is great, but we need some base-load power generation, and nuclear is brilliant for that.

The options for base-load are: nuclear, gas, oil, coal, dammed rivers. Pick one. Of that set, I prefer nuclear.
>I still have teams starting Dockerfiles with "FROM centos:latest" because that's just the mindset they have: "Latest will fix any problems" rather than "Latest will introduce new problems".

Well there are two ways to approach this IMO.

One be proactive. Create them a vetted centos or whatever OS environment for them to base off.

The problem is, if you don't keep on top of it as a sysadmin, the developers will just figure out another way to wall you off.

Alternatively, accept that it doesn't matter what underlying OS they use, because a patched OS >> than unpatched and that when done correctly there is minimal exposure even when the service has an exploitable lib due to the jailed nature of containers.

Assuming "latest introduces new problems" too often builds an aversion to patching which can lead to worse issues down the road.

>And, ultimately, Docker lets that not be my problem, because they have to deal with it when the next leftpad happens. So, yeah: they should have at it.

Exactly! The only one responsible for libs are the parties directly leveraging them. Not that developers shouldn't make that info known. It has to be documented to remove the bus-factor of 1, and if it isn't the sysadmins should work with the devs to get it documented.

> I guess I still think there's something to be said for the cathedral pace, though.

I think it depends a lot on your resources as a department/company. You should always execute as quickly as feasible given your team size and work load. Otherwise technical debt has a way of piling up faster than you can offload it.
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Not common anymore. Now it's usually an ssl proxy that uses a cert on all computers to mitm the connection and enforce policies.
The ticket says "In some cases, some transactions with joinsplits do not get mined." So this does not prove droffels point. He said all tx with only z-addresses could not be mined.

Any other source for this claim?
So "Write Once, Run Anywhere" has become "Write Once, Commit to Two Repos"?
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he probably means its not that big of a difference for him. and sure, if you dont drive a lot then it does not matter.

when i drove 30k per year i drove a diesel, now im driving 15k per year and drive a gasoline car.
Does covertly overthrowing a democratically elected government, installing a dictator only to later invade count as two democracies going to war? Otherwise it sounds like a very big loophole and one the US uses all of the time.
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Haha, I wish! I have a notoriously hard time focusing through the day, especially if personal matters are weighing on my mind.
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>> OP could have done a simple search to verify these claims

- OP (me) actually did do a simple (rather a little elaborated) search before writing that here. Yes, sometimes we do need to take things as 'given' and all, but it's also true that sometimes you do need to confront people when it becomes their habit of making hyperbolic claims.

The truth is, it's the general tendency of people to dislike someone asking for citations against the things they 'believe' are true, be it HN or wikipedia (but facts generally win on Wikipedia). This works similarly in religion.
Because telling someone that you did something because of compliance doesn't help. They still blame you personally even though the compliance standards are usually industry-wide or even defined by Congress as an act of law.
>> sabre-rattling coming, frankly, largely from the West

Uh, the Western democracies have started to do wars in Europe for territory? :-)

After Soviet fell, the NATO forces (and the neutral countries) in Europe melted away; the US/Canadian units in Germany went home and so on. This changed after Russia started to rebuild and do wars.

Edit: This was about the new "sabre rattling". Long, long after the Balkan horrible tragedies. (And I'd really argue if the "West" rattled any sabers there, but it isn't relevant anyway.)
I guess all those colonial wars and government interventions to build and prop up industries never resulted in higher returns. Capitalism is most certainly not just private ownership of the means of production. That is too reductionist. That is like saying biology is chemistry. Technically true, but misses the point.

Because the means of production are held privately there is a class distinction between owners and workers. Owners derive their profit from the labor of their workers. Workers want to work less for higher wages, owners want the opposite. This becomes the locus of class struggle. Because all society now responds to the needs of capital, the superstructure and the state come to serve primarily bourgeois(owners) class interests.

Considering how many wars and coups have been fought to forcibly introduce capitalism into other countries and forcibly extract their resources and labor, to say that private ownership results in higher returns is almost offensive in how it elides the emergent dynamics of capitalism.
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The person who is the subject of this article claims that it was not a hack at all though, but instead a leak. That seems like something significant that the NYTimes should at least mention.
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Also, upstream may have different concerns. For example, they want to be built on various versions of the distribution while Debian will usually only target unstable.

I am upstream for some of my packages and I don't provide the same debian/ directory upstream as I use for Debian.
Anar-caps permit any other form of anarchism - provided you own land.

Statism permits any other form of government - provided you pay taxes and respect the law.
It is FUD, because droffel claims no private tx could be mined.
I'm sure guys who have paid for the enterprise version of BitBucket would rather not have to pay $60 for every developer for BeyondCompare on top of what they pay for BitBucket
Some services are built around racks of Minis and Pros. Online tests for iOS apps and I don't remember what image processing service that needs to use OSX.
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I've always thought that the "white boards and post notes" approach to agile work management is the ideal, it's just difficult to achieve on the 'mortal plane' with remote workers, bad handwriting, inability to query / archive etc. With that in mind I really like Trello because it feels very close to a digital version of that ideal. https://cardboardit.com/ is another product in that vein (I am unaffiliated with both products).
>> all the time

Uh? What examples [of deposing democracies then invading when the dictator becomes too oppressive] exist after the cold war?

Edit: Point is, there was a war of influence in the cold war; dictators played Soviet/West against each others for support. E.g. South Korea and Taiwan became democratic after the cold war, to not risk being ostracized.
This is Wikileaks own fault for three reasons:

1) Julian disappeared completely after the internet to the Ecuadorean embassy was cut in October 2016

2) Wikileaks inexplicably changed their policy for insurance file hashes, publishing the hash of the decrypted files instead of the encrypted ones. This meant the hash of the insurance files didn't match the .AES files, giving the impression that they had been altered

3) Wikileaks stopped issuing verifiable proof of life for Assange. A simple PGP signed message would have sufficed.

With all that was going on, it was actually very believable that Assange had been abducted/killed during the internet blackout, and that Wikileaks was now being run as a black-ops site for a three letter agency.
> It's more like capitation, which was tried very early on with PPOs. Unfortunately, people don't like being told "no", so a lot of the discipline required to make it work was removed.

Capitation is still very much alive, and in fact more common than ever. It's just structured now so that it's hidden from the patient.

You may already be receiving care under capitated agreements yourself and simply not know it.
Does anyone have a recommendation for something similar to this but for Python itself? I have been trying to find something that is not necessarily an intro or crash course book but a book with tips, great explanations, and neat examples (which this e-book(?)/site has).

I see that the author has responded to a couple comments here. Thank you for your great work! It's always great to have a nice reference material with concise examples. I think this will be helpful to everyone(beginners and advanced python users alike)!
The reason is it's a completely unrelated product (previously known as "stash") that Atlassian pretends is somehow connected for branding reasons.
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It's mostly because the point of DPDK and similar is to go around a lot of the processing in kernel, and IPVS does exactly this. I'm surprised IPVS isn't more popular, it's built into the kernel and extremely fast.

HTTP proxy type load balancers are slugs in comparison

Scaling app servers to nearly unlimited size is easy to explain but really hard in practice. It basically amounts to this:

1) Balance requests using DNS anycast so you can spread load before it hits your servers

2) Setup "Head End" machines with as large pipes as possible (40Gbps?) and load balance at the lowest layer you can. Balance at IP level using IPVS and direct server return. A single reasonable machine can handle a 40Gbps pipe. I guess you could setup a bunch of these but I doubt many people are over 40Gpbs. Oh, and don't use cloud services for these. The virtualization overhead is high on the network plane and even with SR-IOV you don't get access to all hardware NIC queues. Also, I don't know of any cloud provider thats compatible with direct server return since they typically virtualize your "private cloud" at layer 3, whereas IPVS actually touches layer 2 a little. Do yourself a favor and get yourself a few colo's for your load balancers.

3) Setup a ton of HTTP-proxy type load balancers. This includes Nginx, Varnish, Haproxy etc... One of these machines can probably handle 1-5 Gbps of traffic so expect 20 or so behind each layer 3 balancer. These NEED to be hardened substantially because most attacks will be layer 4 and up once an adversary realizes they can't just flood you out(due to powerful IPVS balancers above). SYN cookies are extremely important here since you're dealing with TCP... just try to set everything up to avoid storing TCP state at all costs. This also means no NAT. You might want to keep these in the colo with your L3 load balancers.

4) Now for your app servers. Depending on if you're using a dog slow language or not, you'll want between 3 and 300 app servers behind each HTTP proxy. You don't really need to harden these as much since the traffic is lower and any traffic that reaches here is clean HTTP. Go ahead and throw these on the cloud if want
What a great punchline!

Reminds of Lenny Bruce's "Christ and Moses" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-J4O-6hANU).

"The lepers are coming!"
The chatbox on the right is outrageous. "The other person is typing" should never be allowed to have this huge and distracting of an animation.

I picture myself typing this on my phone, letting it rest on the desk unlocked while continuing to read HN, but finding myself constantly disturbed by these bouncing waterdrops in my peripheral vision.