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Oh the irony of poorly articulating one's smartness. This is smart in the "excellent sheep" Deresiewiczian sense (1). That's what goog/face/harvard is a safe harbor for. Oh and smart people don't sit around thinking about who's smart. That's just some garden variety vestigial junior Olympiad wannabe BS in action.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/08/24/books/review/excellent...
I will add my inputs on RDS. I gave this comment on the GitLab incident thread. I actually managed to delete an RDS cloudformation stack by accident. The night before I pushed an update to Cloudformation to convert storage class to provisioned IOPS. Next morning I woke up really early, drove my girlfriend to work. While waiting in the car I wanted to check the status of the update so I went on AWS mobile app to check. Mind you I have iPhone 7, but the app was very slow and laggy. As I was scrolling down to find out the failure. But there was a lag between the screen render and my click. Damn. I clicked on delete. Yeah, fucking delete. No confirmation. It went through. No stop button.

There was no backup because the cfn template I built at the time did not have the flag that said take a final snapshot. If you do not take the final snapshot (via console, api, cfn) you are doomed: all the auto snapshots taken by AWS are deleted upon the removal of the RDS instance.

This was our staging db for one of our active projects which I and the dev team spent about a month working to get to staging and was under UAT. Fuck. I told my manager and he understood the impact so he just let me get started on rebuilding. The next morning I got the DB up and running since luckily I compiled my runbook when I first deployed it yo staging. But it was not fun because the data is synced via AWS DMS from our on premise Oracle db so I needed to get sign off from a number of departments.

So I learned my first lesson with RDS - make sure final snapshot flag is enabled (for EC2 user, please remind yourself anything stored on ephemeral storage are going to be loss upon a hard VM stop/start operation, so backup!!!).

I also learned that RDS is not truly HA in the case of upgrading servers, both minor and major upgrade. I've tested major upgrade and saw DB connection unavailable up to 10 min. In some minor version upgrades both primary and secondary had to be taken down.

Other small caveats such as auto minor version upgrade, maintenance windows, retention for automated snapshot are only up to 35 days, event logs in RDS console doesn't last for more than a day, converting to provisioned IOPS can be expensive are just some small annoyance or ugh kind of things I would encourage folks to pay close attention to. Oh yeah, also manual snapshots have to be managed by yourself, kind of obvious but there is no life cycle policy... building a read replica can take up to a day in my first attempt of ever creating a read replica.

Of course now I learned these lessons so we have auto and manual snapshots and a better schedule. I encourage you take the ownership of the upgrade even for minor version so you know how to design your applications to be better at fault tolerance.....in the end hing I liked RDS the most is the extensive free CW metrics available. I also recommended people not to use the mobile app and if you do, setup a read-only role / IAM user. The app is way too primitive and laggy. I still enjoy using RDS, the service is stable and quick to use, but just make sure you have the habit of backuping and take serious ownership and responsibility of the database.
I've noticed a lot of other positive activity and press for Gitlab for in the past month.

It's unfortunate they had this technical issue, but it's good to see others ( besides Github ) operating in this space. I should give Gitlab a try sometime.
I'm guessing because for many operations that are a few characters to type in JS actually require many, many byte code instructions to represent.
Also not sure those are batteries in his left hand. The power brick indicates the backpack is still plugged into the wall.
Well, you can use the Read Replica only, and if you have an outage on the primary, promote the Read Replica to recover... (will take a few minutes though.)

In general though-- TANSTAAFL
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Most people consider the 4 fundamental forces to be 'part of' the Standard Model, even if the field equations are not complete. But like I said, i did understand what you meant by 'silent on gravity' after your first clarification.
What if what you described was done by an algorithm rather than by human trickery? What if that action was discovered "per chance" through machine learning? I myself don't feel there is anything morally wrong with that. Why should I feel differently when a human does it rather than an algorithm at an HFT firm?

Genuinely curious of your thoughts!
Chomsky's reasoning is that the arbitrary complexity (recursive structure) of human language implies some sort of low level computational engine to do the relevant computations. I don't have an opinion either way. We can see that LSTMs can emulate this kind of logic, but they also make mistakes. Also, I'm not sure that human reasoning is as logical as it might seem. E.g. I read somewhere (lost the reference) that the earliest languages may have lacked the ability to arbitrarily nest clauses. So maybe humans only emulate logical thinking.
My solution to this is to have my servers' console plugged into a separate switch and LTE router than their ethernet cards so not only do I have a redundant WAN, but a redundant router and switch as well.
From: http://www.nx-framework.com/bundle.js , with the surrounding js trimmed off for easier reading.

"Please reopen this page in the latest Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge or Opera browser.NX relies heavily on the unshimmable ES6 Proxies, which means that it only supports Safari 10 and no version of IE yet. This is probably the biggest downside of the framework, but it also allows for some powerful features, that differentiates it from the others. With the release of Safari 10 and the replacement if IE by Edge, all major browsers will be supported."
> Case studies? Towns in the US before zoning, and much of modern Europe?

And Houston. There are many case studies, and they point in many directions.
IIRC many of them use SPI flash or EEPROM, which you should just be able to pop off and replace with a similar part.
as a ruby dev that constantly dips into irb over syntax and semantic questions, a tool like this really helps me think at the same increment with elm!
I don't like that it forces me to go to a page to see everything they've posted. The whole reason I subscribe to things is to see all of those things. I can choose to hide things, they don't give me the choice to see everything. To me Facebook is fundamentally broken in that way.
I'm a huge fan of Mumford, but I think he's stretching a bit when he says that natural images have grammar like language has grammar. The production processes for the two phenomena are enormously different. A natural image is formed when a collection of objects is illuminated by incoming light, and the resulting image is projected onto the retina. The human brain is not involved at all in this process (leaving aside nitpicking about how humans may have shaped the environment). In contrast a natural language sentence is produced when an idea occurs inside the brain, and then various linguistic production processes transform the idea into a serial form, as text, speech, sign language, etc. The latter process involves constraints, capabilities, and eccentricities of the human brain at every stage.

Maybe you could argue that human brains perceive images using grammar-like structures.
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And with all the reliability and security of code. See, for example, the DAO fiasco.
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WiredTiger is a great way to correct from the original 'wrong turn' mongo took when they decided not to build on an existing (RDBMS). WiredTiger may be vastly superior to the MySQL codebase, afaik, but i would tend to doubt it. And you know the code overlap would be at least 80%, in terms of what's going on, which proves my original thesis, which is they should have built on top of RDBMS to start with.
I've often thought that Usenet binaries would be perfect for podcasts.
Agree. One of my friends is pretty smart (at least, above above-average) and works in the tech industry. When he was young he had to "simulate" his emotions to "look like a normal person." He had to think what normal people would feel under his situation and tried to feel that way (or tried to make himself looked feeling that way in front of people). For example, he thinks that crying on funerals is illogical, because the dead are dead already, nothing can bring them back and the dead would surely rather see people they love live happily instead of in sorrow. But no. Until he escaped from the environment he was born he had to live like a normal person, and tried to cry on funerals.
Perhaps if everyone started from the same point this would be true. However, not only has everyone not started from the same point, there are forces -- those who already have money -- who are spending money in an effort to brainwash those who do not into doing things that benefit them indirectly.
I was never especially wowed by SLC when I used to visit there semi-regularly though the nearby skiing is hard to beat.

One issue I have with a lot of smaller cities with walkable cores is that you run out of choices pretty quickly. I'm familiar with a number of places in that vein and they're fine to visit once in a while but I think I'd tire of them as an example of "city living" pretty quickly if I were looking for that sort of thing.
There is also no reason you can't buy insurance.
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I love your tag line here on HN! Some 15 yrs ago I was hired as a UNIX administrator at some larger company. Despite being fresh from school I already had plenty of experience from spending the 90's hacking and programming on whatever UNIX system fyodor or rootshell.com had an exploit for. When the DBA was leaving for vaccation they didn't hesitate in letting me take over his daily routines. On this particular summer day, I had a simple job: dump the production database and load the data into the test environment. I had to make sure the dump was finished before 4pm when the daily production run started (which, FWIW, continued well into the evening). This was an Oracle shop so I believe the commands were mostly "exp" and "imp" -- with the caveat that the imp command would need an additional parameter to select the test database instead of the production one that was the default.

Yeah, you see where this is going. The prod dump finished in time and shortly before leaving work I started importing the data. Then I sat around for a while before I realized I had forgotten about that additional "use the test environment" parameter -- and now I was importing a several hours old dump into the production database while the daily production run was running. I had to call company execs and explain the catastrophe to them, who in turn had to call in the vendor that sold us the system. Those were some pretty scary hours for a 20 yr old kid. Luckily it was just a matter of aborting the production run, reload the prod dump and then reschedule the production run for the day.

The next day I had to start my day at the vendor's place to get some shaming, but also a good piece of advice - "always say destructive things out loud before doing them". Then they continued to tell me stories of people they had worked with who really messed things up, and we all had some good, evil laughs.

Mistakes build experience, and hard learned lessons even more so. You now have a pretty good conversation starter to put on your CV. Personally I'd rather hire someone who was a "removal" specialist over someone who hadn't learned the skill yet. :)

I believe both GitLab and the community in general will come out stronger from this incident. Thank you all for being so transparent about it.
This reasoning is flawed at best and malicious at worst. Anyone can do anything "if they wanted". So why don't they? Don't you see how ridiculous that sounds? It's as if people don't have a life and real obligations preventing them, or something.

--

Homeless people can go to Harvard [1]

This guy build a hotel for $9000 [2]

People familiar with statistics can consistently win the lottery [3]

"Anyone can do it, why can't you?" /s

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

[2] https://www.littlethings.com/9000-dream-home/

[3] http://www.businessinsider.com/4-time-lottery-winner-not-exa...

* There are thousands if not millions of examples like this. Pointing to exceptions has never been a good argument. People who work in nail salons generally have a socioeconomic background that doesn't give them the privilege to be "wasting" time curing cancer. Suggesting that they can, or even should be doing this is insulting, at best.
> Ever since I saw that, every single time I wait for people getting off a crowded train, I wonder "Why?".

Cost reasons. Wherever you adopt this, you need two platforms to serve a train instead of one. Not saying it doesn't make sense to do, just that someone probably sat down and did a cost/benefit calculation.
That doesn't matter if two groups have to have a conversation about something over a period of time so they can come to agreement about something.

Usually this happens during that 'advance planning' stage. It adds an unavoidable lag time to come to some sort of decision or plan, especially when there is a conflict.

And if people have to wait on a decision to get started on something, that adds more inefficiency.

Another solution is to live close to work, build high-rises and subways, or you have 'core meeting hours' and people come in from 9am-noon.
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My driver's ed teacher would have dinged me if I pulled that. True the car got there a smidge after the POV car, but when turning and going through another car's lane you should always yield to that car before going into the intersection. I think a human driver would have said, "Yup, I got here 0.5 seconds before him... but I'll let him go before I attempt the turn."
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I just moved to a new, big building in SF that has literally all of these things. This is the new market rate housing that Yimby groups are fighting for in cities, it's being built.

At least part of the issue is a chicken and egg type problem. Older city housing stock mostly does not meet your criteria (or it does but costs several millions of dollars and has no density), so people oppose dense urban housing, so it doesn't get built, so we never get to see how it actually can meet the criteria people care about.
Well one thing people always love to overlook. Married couples just might not have employers with sites near each other, employers can also move, and you can change jobs.

most people just cannot pick up and move to make it easier to get there. all the solutions usually involve telling people where to live and how which is completely the opposite our society wants.

I am still waiting for a viable arcology to be built, might take a big religious group to do it but I doubt technologist ever will except off planet
Another alternative (still requires willpower, but significantly less) is to ask yourself "What is the smallest step I can take in the direction of finishing the task" repeatedly.

It looks simple, but the answer to that question isn't always easy. Sometimes the "smallest step" really isn't; then you have to drill down to get to a smaller one. Sometimes its not clear which step should be first; a list of potential steps is beneficial in those cases.

I think most procrastination stems from a combination of unclear goals and getting stuck; for me the above method gets rid of the second aspect and lets me move without having a clear idea which direction I'm going.
Exactly, I feel like it was nobody's job to make sure everything was resilient to failures
>> ship code with tens of thousands of requests per second

Define "request"

If the "request" is to deliver some static file, that has been solved many years ago with CDNs and server caches and so on.

If the "request" is to do something other than static files, it has nothing to do with Web.
It could be request to your bank's COBOL app or a request to their Java app or to their Node.js app. Nothing to do with Web.
It's not a democracy when some people have exponentially more votes than others.
sorry, i came across way too bluntly. i really should have noted how suprised i was the an expert thinks its a misconception to think of ourselves as apes.

in any case, i think the author is very much in favour of science.
The title's the boring part. The interesting bit is this:

> Procter & Gamble, with brands including Gillette, Crest and Charmin, is the biggest advertiser in the United States, spending $2.4 billion in marketing last year, according to Kantar Media.

In other words, P&G is setting $2.4b (3% of the Education Department's budget, FWIW) on fire every year to fight over the fixed-size market for commodity goods like disposable razors, toothpaste, and toilet paper. I don't see how this ends well.
> I assure you my daughter is very real and ceased to be a hypothetical about a year ago

Heh. "Hypothetical child or children of unspecified gender".

> Calling it "weakness" to gravitate towards something that other members of your gender are doing is misplaced

There's a difference between doing something and discovering that most of the people doing it are your gender, and doing something that a higher-power (the event organizers) made gender-segregated.

And I don't mean there's a weakness in the person choosing the activity, I mean there's an apparent one you the parent are compensating for. Like if the event in question was basketball camps and you put your child in "Basketball for Short & Slow People". All the female-only events have a real taint of keeping out the strong performers so the weak can win too. imho it changes things from a primarily female-centric event which happens to cover programming to a people-centric event which forbids the "obviously" superior boys. What better way to make people feel second-class?

> I'm not so naive to think that those were exactly welcoming enviornments for women.

Agreed. But that seems like the problem to solve, by making sure that the events we organize aren't hostile to anyone. But anyone is far wider than women, and the offenders are far more diverse than men.

> I don't really understand what "handicaps" the existence of an all-girl coding camp represents to men or boys.

Not that there is a handicap, but that your son would feel like he's being given one so that he's on equal footing - just because he's male.

> Who is getting really, genuinely hurt by this, in your opinion?

Everyone. Both children, and all of society.

Your daughter would feel less sense of accomplishment, your son would feel that his success is less important to you than hers or that he's already good so why strive. Children of either gender who don't learn in the stereotypical way the group leaders think they should and are thus less-served by the program. Trans kids would suffer from more physical-gender stereotyping and all these gender-specific camps would just prolong gender segregation for everyone.

It's not an either-or question though. I don't think you should ignore traditional sexism, which I agree is huge pretty much everywhere including many classrooms. But I think we should do more-inclusive things, not less, to combat it. Things that help everyone, not that exclude.

There's a real reason to have mentors who look like you, in whatever ways you see yourself, but not I think, to be separated from those who are different.
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You sound like a good person. If you're ever in Chicago hmu. We can Judo in the park.
I thought California DMV rules only said you had to treat a red-light right like a stop sign. Make a complete stop then move. I don't recall reading anything about 6 seconds and the article doesn't mention that either.

NB: you should always make a complete stop when turning right on red (even if state regs don't require it). And slow down a LOT when turning right in general. There's always a risk of hitting a pedestrian or bicyclist coming up from behind you.
Being bought doesn't mean it had the ability to turn a profit. I don't think WhatsApp would have been able to do this on its own at the donation-ware level prices they were asking for ($0.99/year).
This is an inversion of cause an effect.

Successful people are emotionally invested in the idea that there is a strong correlation between personal behaviours and outcomes - On the other hand, unsuccessful people are more likely to believe that there is little correlation between the two; that it's mostly random and that skill only plays a tiny role.

Successful people will often try to argue that unsuccessful people who believe in luck don't succeed because their feeling of helplessness inhibits their actions (e.g. makes them lazy). From my personal experience, I think that this is not the case at all - In fact, I know many serial-failures who keep working very hard and are extremely driven in sprite of the terrible odds (and their keen awareness/first-hand-experience of those odds)... In fact, I find that serial-failures tend to work harder and smarter (have better critical thinking skills) than people who were successful at some point in the past (probably because unsuccessful people are more hungry for achievements and because they are more likely to identify and acknowledge flaws in their own plans).

Humans are hard-wired to gamble and accept terrible odds. People know that it's almost impossible to win the lottery and yet so many of them keep buying tickets every week - Terrible odds don't inhibit behaviour; especially if the media keeps priming us with the idea that we have full control over our destiny... That's pretty much the basis for all the superhero movies which are so popular these days.
It doesn't scale, by definition.
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Hi HN, I'm about to start on a project involving C# and .Net. I've worked with these technologies in the past but it's now been many years since I last touched them. Now trying to orient myself around the best practices, tools, etc.

Anything you'd like to recommend? Favorite books, screencasts, courses? Awesome tools & libraries?

Thanks in advance!
I am three miles from my office. There is a lovely river trail running from my back yard to my office building. There is regular bus service from my front yard to my office building.

I drive a motorcycle to work because I damn well feel like it. Unless the weather is bad -- then I drive a car.