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> I'm not sure what kind of cargo cult they have going on over there

Cargo cultism has nothing to do with getting people to see past "straight up awfulness."

Is Uber practicing sympathetic magic in hopes that they'll receive what they're after? And if so, after what more-technicially-advanced society are they patterning their behavior?

Maybe you meant something like that (e.g., [tech figure/company] is predatory, they were successful, therefore being predatory might bring success–could go the argument), but I have no idea from your comment whether that's the case.

For anyone who isn't familiar with cargo cults, they're pretty interesting, yet for some reason the word "cargo" has become this word we prepend to "cult" when we want to make a cult sound more scary, but it has nothing to do with that, and everything to do with what can happen when certain societies make contact with ones that are more technologically advanced: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult
Gitlab is hosted on Azure and like many startups received six figures worth of free credits to be in the cloud.

As the credits run out the architecture reverts to the natural state - architectures tend to be the derivative of organizational structure, code base, and processes of a company.

Through this lens these decisions start making more sense. It is a reactionary process. Sometimes when you start small you bounce around like that and are lucky enough to grow for years and years until you hit a wall.
I find that interesting as well. Furthermore, looking into deploying containers with cheap cloud hosters , I was curious how to share data across various nodes by looking at how Google and Amazon do it. Turns out it's still NFS. I've never looked into networked FS before, but I thought they'd move past NFS to something more advanced...and newer I suppose.
Possibly the values are all with range. It was just that this operation only worked on elements that were a subset. No amount of validation will catch that error.

You could feedback a clarification, but if that happens too often nobody will double check it after they have seen it over and over.
It has to be this bad or worse! You dont hire ex attorney general who is corrupted on record (currently works for clients that he initally was investigating as GA and of course never got anywhere) if you dont need a player that has "get free from jail" card.
I'm remembering tools I've worked with where the cheeky dev required things like type the sentence "I know what I am doing and wish to proceed." in order to perform unsafe operations.

I've always wondered why ops hasn't adopted some of the best practices that have been around for years to avoid fat finger errrors. Like why don't we have systems where to do something dangerous requires two separate people run the command, or there's an approval step, or whatever.
What I don't understand is now there are two repositories for ubuntu for docker: apt.dockerproject.org and download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu. Will both of these continue to exist?
What roads would public busses use if the ones created by those subsidies didn't exist exactly? Do you propose some sort of all terrain bus? Or shall we build train tracks to everyone's home? Won't that be lovely in the dead of night.

FYI: a great deal of the funds for highways come in the form of tolls or gasoline taxes. A great deal of the cost of public transit on the other hand is subsidized by state and local sales taxes and income taxes. It is public transit that is subsidized in the real world not the other way around.
I completely agree with you -- I just haven't actually seen any AR yet come close to doing (for real) what you describe
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> to appease the hair-splitting armchair-lawyer

Or the people who asked actual lawyers, and got as a response that this is something that’s very risky.

I’ve got code in my repos from third parties under the explicit condition that I can only distribute it with attribution, so I can’t give GitHub the right to distribute it without attribution in search results.

I can’t grant GitHub rights that I don’t have, what they’re asking of me would require me to do the equivalent of "I’ve got a bridge to sell you".
Agreed that the goal is to not get invaded. That's why a country that has been recently invaded by two different countries is a poor example of someone for whom deterrence worked. Perhaps the threat of a war of attrition is an effective way to do this in general, but supporting that argument requires identifying countries for whom it worked, not a country for whom it failed spectacularly.
I suspect that Fowler may very well have done that (and then some) before even writing the blog post. Looking back in retrospect, the timing was uncannily excellent and very media savvy.

This situation would require immense courage from anyone, and she's been handling it perfectly. I don't think she needs a pro-tip !
As I keep saying, there are people who screw up big time and people who are too scared to touch the system. I managed to gun down three productive clusters by deploying NTP by accident along with a tiny change. Kerpow, 12 minutes of downtime, full network outage due to DHCP and such. Great fun.
Yep, that's exactly what it does, and indeed, we've worked with quite a few NGOs and nonprofits! If you're interested, send a note on the website's contact form. Mention that you found out about it from Nathan on Hacker News, and I'll make sure you get priority treatment. :-)
But do you think their actual sources of revenue (all the ads and paid stories) are focused towards older people? From what I've seen, it's mostly gossip and stories aimed towards younger people.
The idea here is to be lighter-weight than profiles, or the similar feature in Chrome. I've got three different containers going right now, side-by-side in one browser window. In addition to the per-tab basis, providing separation within a profile also means you don't have to set your preferences, addons, etc. independently each time.

For example, one of the major use cases for this sort of separation is being able to use multiple accounts on a site like Twitter or Facebook (which don't support multi-account) or Gmail (which does, but it's a bit rough). There's no reason I should have to have separate windows or separate addons for each of those accounts.
Nitpick:

From the article: "At the same time, I have been always fascinated by Mark Zuckerberg – the Bill Gates of our time."

I'm pretty sure Bill Gates is the Bill Gates of our time. While trying to improve human living conditions in Third World countries, and without promoting Orwellian surveillance and data-mining capabilities.
You still have to pay... and who's going to do that? I don't care about saving most of today's game for posterity, and most of the more notable and unique examples are not tied to something like Battlenet.
Minor nit: résumés. I generally need to look it up myself.
> seem to have any ethical problem with conscription.

Here's my personal perspective:

I was born in 1991, in South Africa. South Africa was involved in the South Africa Border War[0] from 1966 to 1989. Because of this war, we had conscription up until around 1994.

So I have no obligation to join our military, nor do I want to. (It has become really shitty since after the war). I look at my father and his generation. None of them wanted to go to the army because it seemed like a waste of time, and no one believed in the war. But they went anyway because it's better than going to jail for 2 years.

Reading up on the war, I also don't agree with the justification behind it at all. Nevertheless I would have loved to be conscripted into the army. A 2 year (paid) break from studies and/or work. A time to get super fit, learn new skills, make new friends. And the best part of it, is that no one can give you shit for it because it's expected of everyone.

I really wish I had the time/money to just take 2 years off (where I am provided with food and shelter by someone else) and I can just focus on self improvement.

I mean, I could join the army voluntarily, but it sucks, we are not at war(less to do, less to learn, less exciting etc), and it puts me back 2 years in my career. (But if everyone was forced to do it, I wouldn't really be 2 years behind)

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_Border_War
That might not be the best comparison... GoPro is fighting for life and if it's not acquired by Snap it may not be long for this world.
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But an NN can complete mess up when a new refrigerator is used, that wasn't part of the training set.

Also, the training is very asymmetric, since there are many more things NOT coke cans than there are coke cans.
Yeah, I think my memory may be inaccurate / hazy since at this point, it's been almost 13 (!!) years. Boy, I feel old now.

I think I was referring to: http://www.eqemulator.org/forums/archive/index.php/t-11175.h... and similar. So not even an emulator, just a leaked, crippled version of the game earlier on. Thanks for the correction.
> For instance there is a condition in mice that lives on the male chromosome. It causes all of it's offspring to be male. So all of them also carry this condition. Thus the condition spreads itself twice as much as the competing genes. And so it quickly fixes itself in the population and then there are no more females.

Only if the offspring of regular males can't compete well enough to keep producing females! I don't recall the name offhand, but there is a species complex of fish that live stably in a similar situation- effectively, there is one species that consists of normal males and females, and another species that consists solely of males which parasitizes the other's females for reproduction, and thus steals genes from the "normal" species.
> How to handle PRs/forks when you work merges/combines more than one original repo ?

What i meant here .. is that you might end up merging code from multiple repos together. To elaborate more, your work is based on two repos X,Y .. you might end up committing code from Y into X and code from X into Y with your edits in those, which will result in license conflicts that maybe the original repo owners do not want to adhere to .. so maybe a fork would be more suitable here as you will be the one responsible for that. I hope i was clear
It's more that Bezier curves are questionably useful for audio parameter automation.

If you're automating level and panning you need assorted log/lin/exp curves, not Beziers. You also need to be able to see the waveform you're automating, which is something Bezie fails to offer.

Parameters automation works better with standard ease in/out curves and keyframing. Beziers are a special case of a more general problem.

This looks very nice, but I'm not sure how useful it's going to be to most users in practice.
pdeuchler expressed skepticism about Docker's current compatibility statements based on Docker's historical compatibility practices.

Suggesting that this could be "a past problem [he's] still pissed off about" comes across as tone-deaf when the underlying issue is Docker's credibility when it comes to backwards compatibility.
I'm interested in something like that, too! I've got a few destructive Ansible commands that I check a few dozen times before running. But There's always a chance that I'm tired/distracted/whatever and run something silly anyway. Typically I put in things like config test checks and prompts, but damn it's scary how much power I have with this Ansible setup. I definitely don't want to be in this AWS position.
John - please fix your blog. The black title bar at the top takes up more than 1/3 of the page.
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is it fair to say that when you are in a public place, you are regularly a few feet away from someone engaged with snapchat?

i concede your point about pfizer, and i also recall that i had a bofa account in college, but i think the point still stands.
A complete restart of the index subsystem would require downtime. Note: they are not saying those servers have never been restarted - it's highly likely they get restarted regularly. But, a complete restart of the index subsystem implies that you shut everything down first and restart it all at once, which is what was forced to happen two days ago.
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> Conscription seems counter-productive to me.

"The Chiefs of Staff do not want a conscripted mob of punks, freaks, and junkies and riff-radd, a quarter of a million hooligans on its hands with nothing to do except peel potatoes at Aldershot. The generals are afraid that this would turn it into an ordinary army. [Like the one that won World Wars I and II - Ed.]"

- The Complete Yes Prime Minister: The Diaries of the Right Hon. James Hacker
That's why I qualified it as a "bleeding heart liberterian". I don't believe the government should mettle to much in what private corporations do with a few exceptions, but I do believe its first responsibility is to its citizens and to provide a safety net. I don't mind my taxes going to help others who got left behind

As far as exceptions to when the government should mettle: it shouldn't allow companies to actively harm people (pollution), it should force companies to give consumers all relevant information on whatever they are trying to sell, and they shouldn't allow mergers that decrease competition.
I know people who look at the discover section daily and read through all those articles in there...
Thank you. I think you buried the lede at the bottom of the page though - the certification program is free currently.

On the other hand it looks like you have to purchase an EE license to test your code for certification: "Content that runs on the Docker Community Edition may be published in the Store, but will not be supported by Docker nor is it eligible for certification".

So looks like a minimum of $750 for one node EE license to play?
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Yes I do prefer XML.

XML syntax is very simple, has very good IDE support (navigation, autocompletion - thanks to xml schema, etc.. can any IDE autocomplete dependencies from repository in .sbt files?). Maven itself provides good easy ways to reuse the configuration across multiple modules.

If you exclude dependencies than for more complex projects the no of lines in pom.xml build files is somewhere between 50 - 100 % more, so it is not like .sbt (or gradle - which I find superior to both) is 10 times less verbose.

Look at play https://github.com/playframework/playframework/blob/master/f... Here is a list of few glyphs from there:

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Seriously?
Or if you want to get real old school a checklist.
You shouldn't have to make a claim - this should be handled by them automatically.
It's a simple UI version of Profiles.

The choice of container is no more or no less complicated than the choice of profile for links in external programs (or within Firefox)
I am looking forward more to their Naples cpus for servers.
The wording of the article implies Amazon is shifting the blame entirely on the individual who typo'd: they indemnify themselves with "an authorized S3 team member using an established playbook..." ("don't blame us, our process is perfect!")

There are process-fixes for this, such as requiring a two-person rule when at a production shell and modifying tooling to detect potentially unintentional commands (e.g. a SQL UPDATE without a WHERE) - but given what I know about Amazon's internal practices (i.e. the brutality) it wouldn't surprise me if they did terminate the unfortunate operator - not because they want to, but because AWS simply has too many large-scale customers who would demand immediate action like that.
seems more to be making the claim that one can't predict hat will happen. not that uber will actually but worth 1 trillion.
I am unpleasantly surprised that they do not mention why services that should be unrelated to S3 such as SES were impacted as well and what they are doing to reduce such dependencies.

From a software development perspective, it makes sense to reuse S3 and rely on it internally if you need object storage, but from an ops perspective, it means that S3 is now a single point of failure and that SES's reliability will always be capped by S3's reliability. From a customer perspective, the hard dependency between SES and S3 is not obvious and is disappointing.

The whole internet was talking about S3 when the AWS status dashboard did not show any outage, but very few people mentioned other services such as SES. Next time we encounter errors with SES, should we check for hints of S3 outage before everything else? Should we also check for EC2 outage?
> Is it possible to build a UI that will not allow you to make a mistake?

no, because developers still produce code with bugs.
I'm not sure about that. The new GAN models over the past 2-3 months, like LS-GAN or WGAN, all seem to train much more stably. I've beaten up on WGAN with all sorts of strange tweaks and hyperparameter settings and while it may not work well, it's never catastrophically diverged on me the way DCGAN would at the drop of a hat.
Happens quite frequently from what I'm told. Judges have quite a bit of discretion sometimes and try to sentence intelligently.

[anecdote]
I used to know someone who was an addict. Judge gave her the choice of going on probation for a year, or 45 days in jail. The catch was if she took the probation offer but was picked up for drug offenses in that time, it was an immediate sentence of a year in jail.

She took the 45 days. Better the devil you know than the one you can't control!
[/anecdote]
What means validated in this case? It's not certified by AMD to work, so depending on the memory and motherboard combination it could work, or if you are unlucky it doesn't work?

btw: someone asked about coreboot: https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/5x4hxu/we_are_amd_crea...
spinnaker as a service. pretty cool idea. what is your planned pricing look like? spinnaker is not cheap to run yourself.

Also I tried the "try spinnaker" link and it looks like it timed out at armory.formstack.com
Yes they are.

I don't follow what protected classes have to do with this. Class protections stop someone from being denied employment, denied services, or discriminated against. It doesn't make it some kind of secret, or "don't ask, don't tell."

CPS have been given the power to investigate US Citizens for other criminal infractions (like smuggling, identity theft, and terrorism) so they can ask invasive questions and refer it to other law enforcement.
By the way - what a stupid logic they apply.

Similarily it would be fine to say that I blame the cop for losing my job because he pulled me over drunk and now I cannot drive to my work with suspended DL.
For some reason I wasn't very into TF2 despite trying many times, and am thinking Overwatch is a newer and better version of that. I would probably be playing it if more of my long time gamer friends were into it.

And I totally understands skins being fun. I've probably poured more money into Dota 2 than any other game I own, for 0 in-game advantage (only hats and tournament viewer tickets). I regret nothing :)

I think the best multiplayer I've experienced was 4v4 Left 4 Dead (1 & 2). Everyone was talking about the co-op-campaign, but versus was a hundred times more interesting.

I've been waiting for L4D3 for 7 years now. Evolve (made by the turtlerock team of L4D1) wasn't any good, unfortunately.
You can also have the program tell the user what's going to happen (if it can be computed beforehand), e.g. "This will affect 138 server(s)."
Computers are devices built to amplify human error.
You are right. It is a practice that has to start from the wealthiest. Of course, this is why artist communities thrive near centers of wealth. I'm not sure how to kickstart such a larger trend.
This reminds me of Asimov's characteristically tiny story "Fault-Intolerant" https://unotices.com/book.php?id=38686&page=15 (You can ignore the story at the top about Feghoot, the real story is below.)
What if a group of conscripts decide that they'd rather "save themselves" by blowing themselves up, along with $100mm of your materiel? And then this becomes a meme—something other conscripts hear about and copy? I could see that happening if conscription ever returned in the US—we have an awful lot of "violent pacifists" (picture what happens if you draft some of the police-brutality protestors.)
The tweet (2 hours old) this businessinsider.com article (1 hour old) is about was submitted directly to HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13775624
Thanks, that is a fair perspective. In our case we're using ELB logs as a redundant trace and it isn't critical that our traffic stops if the access logs fail. It would be nice if this behavior became a toggle in ELB settings, but think we can set something up to disable access logs programatically if we start seeing S3 issues.
The problem is that (1) is, to me, invasive. What if their "hobby" is to work for a political interest? What if it is religious in nature? What if it is sexual/adult in nature? What if they have no hobbies because they take care of a dependent relative?

In these situations, the interviewer has backed the interviewee into a corner. They must either lie, evade the question, or expose their private life to a complete stranger. In not a single situation is this a good thing.
I don't think this is 100% fair. Docker (the infrastructure)is relied on by SO MANY people and projects that I don't see it going away, even if Docker (the company) shut their doors tomorrow.

Now, it's not clear to us in the public HOW MUCH of Docker (the software project)_would fall into that category. From the outside, it appears that there is a lot of community around the infrastructure, and somewhat less community around the higher layers (e.g. SwarmKit).
A plant has to collect sunshine for a whole season to produce a couple of fruiting bodies that you can eat in minutes. I'd say heterotrophy wins.
So, GitLab based a crucial part of their company on some random comments that were just quoted and could be said the other way around as well? Were is your own thinking and your own decision making?

Bare metal doesn't mean colocation. It also doesn't mean going bare metal only, you could go with a hybrid approach and save the base costs while maintaining the cloud scalability.
Why not just invest in corporate bonds then? At least then you're safer from bankruptcies.
Anyone who works on large complex systems will read this is and go "this was all preventable, but also completely understandable".
Engraving the SSN on things was commonplace before the internet and identity theft became a big thing. Drivers License numbers were used, too.
More like:

SHUT DOWN S3? ARE YOU SURE? ("I'm absolutely positive."/n) :
I'm truly amazed that it took so long for this answer to be posted!
Ben is going to talk about the 'as a service piece' in a minute. Here's pricing info: http://go.Armory.io/pricing
What? 1 bitcoin is way less divisible than an ounce of gold!
I've seen older people (30+) use it to share trivial moments of their lives to people who don't live with/near them. The barrier to sending a disposable short moment is a lot lower than having a video chat or sending a permanent video file, so there's definitely utility to it.
A language that is spoken by 80 million people is not dead, and is not dying. The colonial two-step when coming to languages existed for a long time and its just matter of time, people with help of machine learning will provide support in multiple languages etc.

For much large part of Mughal period the court language was Farsi, but Hindi/Urdu survived, you are underestimating the ability of people to straddle multiple languages. For many Indians its just a necessity.
I assume if they were unauthorized they would be fired, but since they were authorized shit happens.

"Fire you? I just spent $10 million training you!"
Does anyone know if apps get a chance to phone home about their deletion?

Is the owner going to see a specific stat about this action?