skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An alternate idiom that avoids the "cult" versus "cargo cult" confusion would be "I don't know what's in their [corporate] Kool-Aid over there...".

That evokes the image of Jim Jones People's Temple Jonestown mass murder-suicide, using poisoned Flavor Aid beverage mix. In a corporate context, "drinking the Kool-Aid" means to uncritically embrace the corporate culture, even if it is actually toxic.

Anecdotally, companies that try to impress a culture upon their employees always do it to obscure the otherwise obvious shortcomings in the business itself. Without fail, it is continuously reinforced propaganda, designed to create an irrational emotional attachment to the workplace. Subtler versions use "we" or "us" to refer to the employee labor, rather than the owners and managers.

Everyone does it to some extent, and once you can see the fnords, you can't stop seeing them.

The literal cargo cultists were south Pacific islanders that saw temporary military airfields constructed in World War 2, and planes filled with valuable cargo landing on them or making airdrops, correlated the two, and then built their own mock airfields so that the goods would once again rain down from the sky. The business of running a working airfield was transformed into a religious ritual to call down manna from heaven. In a modern figurative sense, "cargo culting" is something like instituting a daily stand-up meeting when your development process is not actually Agile Manifesto compatible.

While "cult" is in a literal sense nothing more than a group with a common religion, the word has acquired a derogatory shading that implies practices hostile and predatory to the membership, secrecy, and insularity. If your religion severely punishes heterodoxy or apostasy, attempts to supplant or replace your supportive institutions such as family, friends, and government, and encourages you to liquidate your own wealth and transfer it to the religious leadership, it will probably be referred to by non-members and the news media as a cult. Some businesses employ cult-like practices, and often replace the direct tithing with less obvious schemes, such as multilevel marketing or sweatshop labor.
Technical Debt as a Core Software Engineering Practice
Imagine being THAT guy.......... in that exact moment...... after hitting enter and realizing what he did. RIP
I have heard that Kernel 4.10 is the one you want to take full advantage of the new chips.
I have the exact same thoughts as a white guy, but instead of "is it because I'm black?", it's "is it because I'm weird?".
>Now imagine you're a country with less than 10% of the population and need to produce a force of 200k soldiers in order to have a credible deterrent against an aggressive neighbor. How do you do that without conscription?

Just go without, and tell the population that you don't have enough forces to serve as a deterrent, so if the neighbor decides to invade you're just going to voluntarily cede any territory they ask for.
An MBA doesn't teach you to be a dreamer. Neither does an engineering degree.

But consider what personality types are drawn to different businesses...and I think you'll find a larger (but still small) percentage of the dreamer type within the business community than within engineering.

This is not to say that there aren't also engineers who think this way, of course there are. It's more about demographics, and which personality type is attracted by which type of work.
Viable - probably.

Will we like it - definitely not.
> XML syntax is very simple

Assembly is also very simple. Basic is also very simple. Why don't we program in these "simple" languages?

> has very good IDE support (navigation, autocompletion - thanks to xml schema, etc.. can any IDE autocomplete dependencies from repository in .sbt files?

Just like .sbt sources, since it's Scala + the SBT API + some operators.

> 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.

SBT is a dsl in Scala. It's at least 10 times more powerful compared to java & xml. Even the dependency system is far simpler in .sbt files. XML is just bloated, full with noise and primitivity. Just like java.

> or gradle - which I find superior to both

Why?

> Here is a list of few glyphs from there: ._ := () ++ ++= ]( % target := target.value / "sbt-routes-compiler",

If you don't have a clue what's "++" and such operators and you're too lazy to search for it then you're not a programmer just a joke. Seriouly, how can you complaing about a few operators in a dsl?! "](" isn't even an operator, "[]" is the generic parameters' syntax while "()" are just parens. This is the problem with you java devs, you're too lazy to learn. And that's what hits your quality.
Full disclosure: I am Russian.

Even Belarus and Kazakhstan don't really want to join, forget about the rest ex-USSR countries.

Taking countries by force makes even less sense - there do not exist resources or territory that make it profitable enough to offset military spending and new rounds of economic sanctions.
Your view of how government work or sources of resources and power in the country and dynamics between the two is not something i can agree with.

In any case there is nothing state can do to please you: censoring specific types from accessing media is bad (and rest assured you would never know if they are ultra-right, libertarians or whoever they are from western media), allowing them is endorsing.
Note that's durability not reliability. You might not be able to get at it with every request (I think 99.99% is the target) but it'll still be there if you try again later.
We are anticipating great things that year.
We believe that DevOps encompasses 3 areas that must change: people, processes, & technology. We’re seeing evidence that the people/culture is already changing organically because companies must change in order to compete in the software era, and the velocity at which we see software-first companies entering traditional spaces like banking/finance, real-estate, hotel is also accelerating.

That said, in order to make this rate of change to happen faster, instead of trying to convince people through debates, we have to show proof that moving towards a true DevOps model is successful, not just because you get to deploy more, but because it matters to the business. We want to show that CI/CD helps meet SLAs, new valuable features are added and allows the business to address new markets.
From the reddit AMA today with Lisa Su (CEO):

7th) Will all Zen products have all of the instruction sets and platform extensions, or could lower end chips lose features like virtualization?

A7: In the consumer client space we have no plans to turn off virtualization or features.

9th) Does AM4 / consumer ZEN support ECC memory?

A9: ECC is enabled on Ryzen and AM4.

[https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/5x4hxu/we_are_amd_crea...]

edit: added link
Yeah they've slashed fares and a huge part of their losses are driver subsidies. It's all a farce.
It will not be certain if you have fucked up or not until you actually go to check.
Directly? Nope. Indirectly? I guess.

Google stores information about you to make the ads more relevant to you. If someone is using/have used g+ and have liked a few profile/pages(not sure what they're called) then google surely is more confident about this data than other data, so it might help google drive more business by targeting better.

Again, as someone else pointed out, most of the google products are operating at a loss only at individual product level. You can think of it as another example for 80-20 Principle.
> Multi billion dollar subsides subsidies.
Thanks. The most useful advice was shared in private. People coming to our office to share war stories of regretting moving to bare metal. I also received dozens of people sending direct messages via twitter because they couldn't share their stories publicly. Some of the best advice are things that we can't share publicly. For example a major company going bare-metal and then spending a lot of time to set up an authorization system that you get for free with AWS IAM.
It's not possible to be perfect, but you can certainly do better than taking down S3 because of a single command gone wrong.

One thing I have been doing for my own command line tools is making a preview feature for what a command will do and make the preview state be default. It's simple, but if the S3 engineer first saw a readout of the huge list of servers that were going to be taken offline instead of the small expected list we probably would not be talking about this. There's obviously a ton more you can do here (have the tool throw up "are you sure" messages for unusual inputs, etc).
Be that as it may, without an extended analysis of the possible multiple interpretations and conflicts with copyleft, it leaves the author looking somewhat shrill.
So this week the poor soul at Amazon, along with the Price-Waterhouse guy, are the poster children of Human Error.
S3 uploads can be very dependent on what the network looks like between your systems and the endpoint. We introduced S3 Transfer Acceleration to help address this. This uses our edge network as your endpoint, then sending your upload across our backbone rather than traversing the commercial internet. It comes with a small fee, but the fee only gets applied if it improves on what the time to transfer would be otherwise.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-storage-update-amazon-s...

If you have lots of data that needs to be uploads (TB/PB worth), then I'd take a look at AWS Snowball. https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/

Also, if you're using the AWS CLI to upload, make sure multi-part upload is enabled.

Why use S3? It scales without any user interaction, is highly available (yes, I cringe saying that, but this is the first, and hopefully only time this has occurred! =D ) and extremely easy to access; it's as simple as an HTTP GET. Being able to address objects directly and not have to worry about managing file systems simplifies a lot.
Whoops! Nothing. Total misfire. My apologies.
Both of the increments in my example depend on sentiment analysis of private communications. That tech opens a whole brave new world.
> What if their "hobby" is to work for a political interest? What if it is religious in nature?

Would those really be considered a "hobby"? Generally a hobby is an activity done for pleasure during leisure time. You can get pleasure from such activities, but that's rarely the only motivation.

Regardless of the definition, I don't think it's very difficult to come up with a vanilla answer for this that doesn't necessitate lying. I do agree that's a dumb question that doesn't result in any useful information for the interviewer.
No. But a good UI can help you see the mistake you're about to make.
"I have no plans to travel to the US while Trump is president."

Statements like this baffle me. Literally no-one in any position of authority cares if an individual doesn't want to come to the USA.

Also, if you exclude the USA for its border policies then you also have to exclude the majority of countries in the world, most of which have stricter controls, especially in Muslim countries. You are basically restricting yourself to Europe.
I have not use this package, but looks to be pretty helpful with figuring out stack traces.

https://github.com/mmcgrana/clj-stacktrace
Only on the first order. Say population is 90% conditioned male (ie, only male children), 5% normal male, and 5% normal female. Only 1 in 19 males mate, while 100% of females mate. Only those females that mated with normal males produce female children. Which means that barring some sort of mutation or drift, the population will eventually go extinct.

One possible solution is that a normal male may have a distinctive feature that a percent of females find attractive which could be selected for.
Conscription is a form of taxation. Many say taxation is slavery, but the argument doesn't hold very well.
why not?

Propaganda is a very good way to be informed. Precisely because the first law in good propaganda is "you never lie, just do not say anything about what you don't want mentioned". A lie like the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq is going to backfire when people realize, and they will.

I found very useful watching RT propaganda along CNN, or BBC propaganda.

If a group of propagandists fail to state a very important issue while the other do not, let's say they omit the official conclusion about a plane that went down months ago that you accused the other party of shooting down, well you know this party is lying.
Looks great, coup successful by AMD. Takeaways after a few of the reviews on this list[0][1]:

- If you're buying a desktop quadcore processor in 2017, you're doing it wrong. May as well buy a laptop.

- Kabylake sucks as a workstation chip but is ok for gaming if your PC is solely a glorified Xbox.

- Vast majority (90%+) of gaming rigs are GPU-bound. Think very carefully before giving up 8 cores and 16 threads at the same price.

- Intel's margins and lineup are utterly destroyed especially once you consider how expensive Intel HEDT boards are on top of it all.

- AMD made CPUs Great Again. Bravo AMD!

[0]https://videocardz.com/66826/amd-ryzen-7-review-roundup

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wJQEHNYE7M
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Author here. There's some truth to what he's saying. One thing I've been meaning to do is get my hands on all the Maven pom.xml files that exist, so I can load them into a Guava Multimap (my graph database of choice) and figure out every single artifact that will transitively inherit vulnerable collections on the class path.
Bicycles for the bumbling mind.
it gives political momentum-as did Hitler's blitzkrieg in Poland

Military wise you buy large buffer between US ground & air forces based around there.
Docker CE and EE are based on the Docker open source project and work the same way. You can also use a Docker CE client to talk to Docker EE host or swarm, and vice-versa.

The Docker Cloud team is working on improvements to reduce segmentation too - stay tuned.
But they don't bundle SMS and 'HoIP' any more, and aren't they killing it in favour of Duo & Allo? But with ~~poor~~ no marketing, and no web UI...
No search?
Yes, but be careful. UIs like that tend to accumulate "--yes" options, because you don't feel like being asked every time for 1 server. Then one day you screw up the wildcard and it's 1000 servers, but you used the --yes template.

Which is why I'm pointing out that to design UIs like these you should fall back on slightly different UIs depending on the severity of the operation.
What? I've never run a parallel op on the GPU but I do on my CPU multiple times a day. GPU acceleration besides games is still extremely rare. You're grasping straws here.

You're also missing that even on chrome the js and layout engines run different threads. Same with audio and video rendering. Same with downloads. The average page is probably running things on 10-20 random threads. And the average user has multiple tabs open.

Multicore CPU is so common these days that any performance critical code that can be parallelized, is. This includes GZIP and HTTP which are used heavily by web browsers. The network stacks underneath those in the OS are also multi core capable.

Single thread performance is not all that important anymore. It's better to have 2x the number of fast cores than half the number of slightly faster cores in almost every situation these days.
Performance out of S3 is generally really good. However, if you're looking to say, serve up a global website and your content is in a single S3 region, then you can leverage CloudFront CDN to serve up those objects. CloudFront integrates seamlessly with S3, and you don't pay transfer charges between CloudFront and S3.
One more tune
Beyond a typing mistake, it's not really very similar. The Gitlab incident was one avoidable problem after another, ending with a giant WTF when they found out that no-one had even tested the backups were working.

This is a case of someone slipping on the keyboard, removing more capacity than intended and the recovery process taking longer than expected. The process actually seems to be working (to a given value of working), but the amount of downtime was way above acceptable. They've already put more safeguards into the tooling to prevent the situation from happening again.

S3 is also orders of magnitude more complex than Gitlabs infrastructure, so while the amount of time the outage lasted for is not acceptable, it does show that they at least have working processes for critical situations that allow them to get back in service within a day, which is pretty impressive.
If they do they'll save a lot. But they aren't going to.

You can check the IPO filing where they state that they'll be using web services by the leading companies and have also estimated the value.
Exactly - this person is now the expert on the error, and they can now impart this valuable knowledge to the organization.
Please do not take the author's advice.

Deleting text messages from your phone before getting to any customs is a terrible idea, it makes you look like you are hiding something.
Can we take a second to laugh at the guys wearing spectacles on the trading floor at 9am?
Is there any relation to https://github.com/matejlatin/Gutenberg?
Jason Scott, the heart attack guy, here.

During the weeks I was with my dad, at Duke Hospital, I got to see extremely excellent care - because he'd been a transplant patient, they took his medications incredibly seriously. Everything was charted and they were always on top of it. There were arguments about his exercise needs, but mostly between him and the nurses, who exhibited a wide range of bedside manner. I definitely think having an advocate with you at the hospital is critical.

At St. Vincent's, I really dealt with superior nurses. Only one was short with me, and that's mostly because she was asking me a question and my answers were too fru-fru for her; she wanted a number, and all I had was a guess. When I finally guesstimated a number, she went away; never saw her again. Meanwhile another walked me though a large post-heart attack education patiently to make sure I understood everything.

The hospital, I'm sad to say, makes a big difference.
9 to 12 months is short. The first six months are lost to training. The US used to draft people for 2 years (Vietnam) or, in WWII, "for the duration, plus six months".

About 75% of the US military-age population couldn't qualify for the US Army today. Too fat, too criminal, too sick, too crazy, or too dumb. This worries some military manpower planners. What are Sweden's stats like?
The latest virtual reality headset sales we know so far
I use Chrome most of the time. It's devtools just can't be beat at the moment.

I'm excited to hear Mozilla is getting back on modernizing Firefox though. It'll be nice to have options again.
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It's not that Sweden or Finland could alone stop Russia from conquering their territory. It's that they would make it costly to achieve, and much, much costlier to maintain.
It's the opposite, actually. With less selective pressure on good eyesight the selective pressure on having nice hair or a charming manner is more pronounced.

Same reason why all the fish at the bottom of the ocean are blind.
It's a difficult problem. I did it in '97 which was one of the last years in which all (men at that time) were required to do it, and more than half actually did. We were many who hated it. The budget wasn't enough to train that many, leading to lots of down time and low excercise budgets. Pay was ~$10 per day iirc. I envied those who could go to university instead.

Fun fact I got the same model of heavy iron sight carbine that my dad used in 1970 (not all units were equipped with the newer ones in 97 - ironic considering we now probably have 5 guns per soldier...).
The basic training was good and I don't regret doing it even though I hated it.

I'm thinking this is a necessary move if we need a large fraction of the population trained. If the pay is half decent and the selection is small enough that volunteers are enough - then it's only a pseudo conscript system imho.

> you should fix that.

I think there are people who would be very interested in solutions

I think very high minimum wages, low unemployment and free higher educations doesn't help - the military is having a hard time competing for people coming out of school.

I think this particular system will work because attracting just a few thousand should be possible if the pay isn't silly and the training gets a reputation for being good even for people who don't pursue a career in the military.

One key is making it an attractive career. That idea has been utterly ruined by the turmoil of recent years, now no one trusts that they can have a long term career in the military. Who knows what size the military is in 10 years ? Can be 10x smaller. Or bigger. We were too quick to scale it back. A stable organization is key.

Another idea is to let people 18-25 choose when they want to do it. Having an opportunity to do a conscript year when you happen to be between jobs etc would be perfect. I wasn't really ready when I was 18.
Well I had not yet deleted the Uber app, but now? Gonzo! And it's not just Susan's account, but all the revelations of how crappy their company culture is, the immaturity and general misbehavior of their CEO (who clearly doesn't understand how being a CEO of such a huge company means he needs to grow up super fast and act like a decent moral human being).
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This is the risk you run into by doing everything through the command line. This would be really hard to do through a good GUI.
I love seeing prototypes like this. Excellent job!

One suggestion: I would implore you to add undo sooner rather than later.
To add on to that: The best way we've found to work with large enterprises (aka Global 2000) is to start w/ just one team & app, show success with that, and then expand from there.

We've found that big companies need to see one team achieving success before they'll adopt it throughout the organization.

We've employed this approach successfully with our first several customers. They're going from from one app --> 5 apps --> "GA" rollout internally.
You don't. Because it is spam.
Germany wanted resources and territory, "living space for the aryan race". Russia has more than enough of both.
Not snap, but maybe applicable in the same domain - know a single 30 year old who has much more success on Instagram than Tinder.

He's handy with a camera, so lots of content, introspective comments, tripod pics of his profile while staring out at the sea or what not...

Every new follower brings him a couple more.
> Nobody ever deploys kub alone in production.

Uhh, we do. And we're not alone as we work with several other companies that do. That's quite a big nobody tent.
Is there any evidence to support that? Did the phone usage prices in Iraq really surge after introducing zero-rating for Wikipedia? How much did they surge?
Both styles have their place. Doom 2016 was an amazing game, easily a favorite of mine. I appreciated the incredible, realistic graphics. It worked for this game.

Would I want Zelda, or Minecraft to be that way? Certainly not... Their aesthetic fits their world.
Accusation put forth against Cosby and Trump did not follow your assumptions.
Every sysadmin at my previous job (a Fortune 500) would stop the moment that number is off the expected by a few machines, just long enough to verify it's correct. That may be due to having made a mistake like this once. I know that's true in several other large shops, as well.

Source: I'm was the one the one they would call for our team... usually at 4:00 AM because one of our team members (which was also frequently me) didn't document something correctly.