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The most ancient religion we know of, that of the ancient Mesopotamians, featured a war between the god Marduk and the god Tiamet, who symbolize light/darkness chaos/order etc, much in the way later religions do.

My personal belief is that the religions are all describing the same real phenomenon: the way the individual draws order out of chaos to create the world.

In the Mesopotamian myth Marduk (order/light) cuts up Tiamat (chaos/darkness) and casts her pieces across the universe, creating the world.

In the Judeo-Christian myth Yahweh separates the earth (order) and the heavens (chaos) to create the world.

I don't know of a religion that does not repeat this as a central theme.

Personally I see this as evidence that they were all describing the qualities that the ancient believers saw embodied in their worldly heroes and immortalized them through an oral tradition describing the modes of action (a dramatization) which made those heroes admirable, and those phenomena thus appear wherever there is an ancient myth.
> Lesson 1: Build Your Own Competition. This lesson is reminiscent of Amazon’s move ... and Uber’s move from town cars to UberX. If you don’t create a culture of disrupting yourself, then a competitor is likely to disrupt you.

That is more or less what Travis Kalanick explained to the driver Kamel their decision to introduce UberX after UberBlack during that controversial video shot in an Uber ride 2 month ago.[1]

[1]: https://www.recode.net/2017/2/28/14766964/video-uber-travis-...
Avoid over-using point-free style. For example, this is hard to read:

-- Bad:
f = (g .) . h

heh
Data visualization on differing tastes in beer across the US
> Certs help with administrative things like HR requirements, contractual obligations, audits, etc.

You're pointing out things that are generally considered to be failures in our sphere anyway. I don't think that's unrelated.

HR brings us terrible candidates? Certs (currently) don't help that, and when HR over emphasizes them, we can blame the certs. (In theory, certs COULD help, but the people that get the cert instead of the experience are the problem ones, and those are the people HR brings us)

Contracts are an attempt to preset agreements between two parties, and in the tech world usually one of those parties are at a disadvantage in the tech space (otherwise we'd not be making the contract). Certs are used as a means of asserting competence in the employees, but the other party has every incentive to focus on the cert instead of the competence. So when it goes bad (as it often does), we can blame the certs as not achieving the goal.

Audits are likewise, trying to filter for competence (in action or in people, depending). But again, if the incentive is for the cert over the competence, it is the competence that suffers. We blame the cert (or more correctly, the emphasis on the cert).

IT definitely has a bias against certs. And it's not really against the certs themselves...it's that emphasis of the certs is harmful, not helpful. So we argue against that emphasis, which sounds a lot like hating the certs.

> The problem most IT people have is thinking that certs address technical issues, when in fact they address business issues.

But those business issues are "how do we ensure the technical issues are addressed?" And it turns out Certs in practice do a terrible job at that.
> Not exactly a fountain of wisdom and good judgement.

But certainly a font of great insight into base human desire, according to many traditions. It's why "a deal with the Devil" is a trope: the Devil knows exactly what to offer humans in exchange for corruption. So, the GP's quote is apt: an offer to "rule in Hell" vs. "serve in Heaven" is indeed a tempting one for many people.
Many companies frequently build a hierarchy of "direct reports". That hierarchy really loves having people they oversee being local. It's kind of a cultural thing, but it requires a very, very patient and rational manager to oversee people they can't physically interact with. In my experience, most managers don't fit this bill.

Add to the fact that most of these direct reports are done via a direct 1:1 meeting, most company cultures just really, really want to do critical communication verbally.

I've rarely encountered a company that puts quality written communication at a high priority. The last few I've worked at have these half-assed wiki's (e.g., Confluence) where pages are written poorly and then forgotten about about 15 minutes after the page is updated. And then random email blasts.

It's this focus on verbal instead of written communication that is a blocker for remote work. As a remote employee, if nothing important is clearly written down, it's difficult to be a "self-starter". You can't just research a problem yourself, you frequently need to be handed work. Thus, in most businesses I've found, the remote employees end up in this strange "in house consultant" style role.

I suspect companies where everyone is remote also prioritize written communication.
Even if it wasn't a passenger overbooking, it was overbooking in that they failed to properly account for the likelihood of having to ship crews around their network.

If their occupancy ratio was lower, then there wouldn't have been a problem, they could have fit the crew in. If they reserved 4 seats for crew on every flight, again there wouldn't have been a problem.

If they had even reserved 2 seats and run sufficient flights such that the crew got to the target airport in time there wouldn't have been a problem.

If they had brought crew in from two different starting points - it would have been fine.

It's still overbooking, just not oversold tickets.

The airline played the game, ran too lean and paid the price.

Much like an ISP having all their IP traffic going down one pipe, and not having enough room to send out the customer invoices because everyone is watching Netflix.
I genuinely cannot figure out what "playing the pronoun game" means in this context.
Nope, it is in fact the certifications. Strongly agree with the tptacek quote here.
There's both some truth and some falsehood to the 'certifications don't prove anything' argument:

Answer a multiple choice test for an MCSE or whatever? Doesn't prove much.

Receive a server that's been wrecked and won't boot, turn it into a load balancing HTTPS server, SMTP server, a bunch of required cron jobs and a boat load more requirements for RHCE? Proves you can do those things.

Disclaimer: used to work at Red Hat. Still love their stuff. Cisco has task-based tests too.
Interesting on a sociological level perhaps, but is it really HN material? Would similar articles about about other religions be OK?
That and their relative amount of money is greater. Would I rather have 60% more money than someone or half as much as someone?

I'm not saying it's the best decision but there are rational explanations.
Patreon allows content produces to make content available for free while a subset of the audience pays for it. If you do it well, that subset gets additional benefits without leaving the larger audience out in the cold with hollow teasers and no real substance. Tip jars allow the same thing: For the content producer to make some money without charging a fee to poor people, who are free to access it.

I will always have ads on my homeless site so that homeless people do not feel like leeches. Traffic alone can put some money in my pocket. But, I would happily remove ads from other sites if I genuinely thought this would lead to a better outcome for me. I have done a lot of nice things for people online for a lot of years and mostly not been paid for it.

This is partly a function of the problem spaces that I am involved in. Some problems are inherently trickier than others. But it is partly a function of being a woman, which both cuts me out of the "old boy network" such that I have difficulty accessing pertinent knowledge and skills and also makes other people prone to thinking I should do it out of the goodness of my heart and my dire poverty is not their problem, which is all kinds of fucked up.

So, at this point, I am more concerned with figuring out how to line my empty pockets with money than I am with the criticisms of other people. They mostly haven't given a damn about what I need and I am at a point where I feel "Yeah, whatever. This resource can absolutely go away. You are not entitled to benefit from me while I get nothing back, assholes."

So, you know, if people want to give me solutions for how to get money in a "good" way that actually improves my bottom line, awesome. If people want to bust my chops about it, not really caring at this point. Being super giving and virtuous does not have a track record of keeping me fed.
Good point. I said app market, but I specifically meant messaging app market.

Still a good point, just because they don't have Signal or Facebook (not that I'd trust it) doesn't mean they don't have strong competition in their own field of approved apps.
Having worked from home and on remote teams... I didn't like it as much as working with others, because I never felt attached to the team.

A shocking amount (to me, anyway) of my motivation comes from caring about the people involved in the organization... That attachment just doesn't form with people I hear on the occasional conference call or daily slack messages.
>Jewish Monotheism was most strongly advocated by the Prophet Isiah. While this was done in Babylon, it was done prior to the birth of Zarathustra.

Not True! Scholars put Zarathustra 1000 BCE or even as far back as 1700BCE but [0] but Isaiah at around 700 BCE [1]

Also many aspect of Judaism like the story of flood or creation were copied from Epic of Gilgamesh [2] that goes even further back.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroaster
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaiah
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_of_Gilgamesh
You can opt out of Facebook though, or set up a fake account.
Our flow is like this:

1) Person pushes to dev branch

2) Chat log shows the feature pushed

3) Chat log shows Jenkins received push and is downloading

4) Chat log shows whether tests were successful (yay) or not (boo).

^^ that's the basis. It helps keep everyone up to speed on what's going on, especially for testing.

One more example: Notifications when merge requests are made / merged in the chat.
I'm excited for the day that I can put on VR through my phone or computer and shop Amazon with hand gestures and voice. Or look through all the pictures and videos I have stored and fly through memories.

I know we're still a far way away, but this is definitely a step in the right direction - great job Google!
Animate Components V5
Thank you so much for clarifying! I really appreciate it. This is all pretty shocking to me. I'm gonna have to get used to my blurry showers again. :(

I knew it was very bad to shower with contacts on but I figured the daily ones would be no big deal.
In some cases people literally point their camera at a whiteboard!
i believe the benchmark is set by R and it's RData format. It saves everything in the R domain. ML models, dataframes, everything.

Works pretty well - I know of large financial firms that are using this in production to load large trained models of size hundreds of GB
Let me tell you from my experience as somebody that didn't see the inside of an office for so long I forgot what bad coffee tastes like that the "headphones means go away" rule is not respected by significant others at home.

Actually just playing the music loud over speakers works much better. But YMMV depending on your music taste, mine is perceived as too intrusive by most.
Oh nice articles
MPs worried Brexit vote website wobble caused by foreign hackers
You seem to think the authorities are worried about the truth. Luckily, there are many countries where that is the case. But, almost by definition, oppressive regimes aren't so worried about the details.
A lot of the bigger certs have all kinds of high-dollar prerequisites and accounting that only larger firms are going to bankroll. Perhaps the certs aren't so much an expression of how "good" you are as much as they're a token of how much faith "the man" has that you will stick around long enough to recover the investment.
Since taxis also operate via apps & the drivers are the same people, this is simply no longer true.

While I'll agree that Uber used to provide a higher quality experience (nicer cars etc), this is no longer the case. The rating system is also broken-eg it now offers too much power to drunk customers. Uber now operates only to benefit itself-not its customers, not the drivers and certainly not the public. Perhaps you'd prefer to be regulated by the whims of a corporation & their pursuit of profit extraction rather than the democratic legitimacy of government, but thankfully, most of us would not. Hence, even if its taken some time for local & national governments to get up to speed, Uber is being banned, taxed, and forced to abide by the public & workplace safety rules every other company must follow.
Burger King's new television ad that triggers Google Home
Oh come on. That is a terrible argument. I meant of course in respectable web sites not the kind of nutty place that trolls use to derail perfectly valid opinions.
Little People, Big Woes in Hollywood: Low Pay, Degrading Jobs and a Tragic Death
Honestly, the fact that step 3 works surprises me more.
I think the main reason is good software design.

It's so modular that it's very easy to extend.

A new fluid sim algorithm? A few months later Blender is shipping it.

That's also the reason it's fast. It starts in one or two seconds.
Ohio inmates used salvaged computers to commit credit card fraud from jail
Having lived in China for 6 months I can say: if you build a mobile OS to just run WeChat embedded. It would work for 90% of what average users (so no, not you here on HN) want from a phone.

Seriously. you can message, voice chat, call, video call, order plane tickets, split bills, order stuff online, buy movie tickets, pay utility bills, share photo's like FB timewall, create publics chatrooms, pay in physical stores and so much more.

That app was ridiculous. Miles ahead of even the biggest dream of any app-central company in the Western world. They built up an entire ecosystem in one app.

Obviously, it drained a lot of battery on Android. But Android itself is miles behind iOS anyway, since there is no Google in China and Android today is pretty much an empty shell without GPlay Services / Framework.
Maybe we should make our own sterile water?

To make sterile water, you must do the following:
1. Use a pressure cooker, a hermetically sealed pot or an autoclave. Make sure that the temperature rises above the normal boiling point of water.
2. Fill the cooker with water.
3. Place cooker with water on a heat stove.
4. Boil water for a minimum of 20 minutes.
5. The temperature within the cooker should be maintained at 121 degrees Celsius or 250 degrees Fahrenheit throughout the boiling period.

http://www.cascadehealthcaresolutions.com/How_to_make_steril...
"I realized then that open source isn't free, someone else is just paying for everyone who is not."

someone else = contributors

everyone who is not = mainly corporations
> Welcome to America - we shoot first, ask questions later.

Would you please not post grandiose political/national rhetoric to HN? It's unsubstantive and evokes worse.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14095966 and marked it off-topic.
NPR Planet Money: Joseph Bankman / CA Taxes
I have a cert and it goes with my years of experience I like it - the test was free it was grueling to take.
Startup says it can make compressed-air energy storage scheme dirt cheap
>and finally, there is at least one jurisdiction in the world that still offers legit bearer share companies which require no registration. And your entity no longer needs a banking relationship to acquire goods and services.

what does this mean? what is a bearer share company? and which jurisdictions would that be?
No. WeChat started from scratch. None of the QQ users were ported to WeChat on day 1. You had to create a different account based on your mobile phone number just like any other mobile apps. You can, of course, use QQ credentials to login AFTER you created your WeChat account but you still have to create a WeChat account first and then link it to QQ. None of 650MM users were automatically created initially AFAIK. It was a "bold move" to cannibalize Tencent's own users in a way, after all.
The burden of proof (or at least of showing good evidence) rests on those deciding to deploy the equipment. If the best response they can offer is to assert "that did not happen", the system is not ready for deployment.
Your probably playing devils advocate but the issue overall applies to the concept of reasonable doubt being applied (supposedly) in a court of law in a criminal trial (at least a court of law in the US and others).

Certainly if law stated we should convict people based instead on 'virtually' conclusive evidence your conclusion is valid. I just hope they are real, real careful with that evidence! To prevent the worry of getting caught up when you are innocent, we (and other countries) choose instead to base decision on a criminal matter conversely by rejecting a criminal case on reasonable doubt.

With that understood; I ask you as a technical person (assuming you probably are as this is Hacker News); is it reasonable to say that an IP may not accurately tie to a particular individual in at least some non-extraordinary circumstances?

As a technical engineer I already know the answer it does not; and it can happen due to admin negligence at a minimum (admin wipes out the leases or changes the address pool then changes it back because it was a mistake). At least I certainly hope no one was convicted based on their IP in any network I have managed (or at least they had a good enough attorney to know to check in with me!).
> This includes enhanced network capabilities such as persistent connections framework, which allows for one SSH connection to stay active across multiple Ansible tasks. This reduces the total time for completion, and according to Cramer, it improves performance as well.

Can confirm, this helps tremendously.
>This is obviously often incorrect, but given most people set up US entities because they're cheap

Cheap compared to where? EU or UK?
This story illustrates why Tor will never actually bring down a repressive regime. Tor appears to be based on the idea that if you can't prove who actually said something, then you can't punish them. Repressive regimes can punish those people anyway.
It really depends on your use cases.
WeChat fits well in China as it is building a product exactly adding value for China culture and lifestyle there.

You can make utilities payment via WeChat, but I would much prefer to have a platform automate this for me and not part of an IM.

The West has been following the UNIX philosophy of doing 1 thing and does it very well.

Perhaps WeChat is not just an app, but an eco-system. As for UX on strictly IM functionality, I would prefer WhatsApp, FB Messenger, Telegram etc as it is much "lean" and lightweight to use.

I personally don't think WeChat can be successfully replicate their model to everywhere in the world.

However, a lesson to learn for everyone (including WeChat), build local product. Builds product that fits everyone's need accommodating their culture and lifestyle.
I don't know I don't think people care. Look at Google, the web is, in many parts of the Western world, mostly Google.

Many people, including me, use *.google.com as a one-stop shop for all their software needs.
I thought I remembered reading something about apple frowning on apps-within-apps?

I guess Wechat either sidesteps it by having everything be a 'profile' effectively just making it a chat app interfacing to other apps? Or maybe apple doesn't care about that restriction over there...?
Half of mobe, broadband customers unhappy with how complaints handled
The problem is the antivirus software, not the kernel features that the AV software is using. I can't imagine that MS would cripple their OS just so that someone who mostly uses WSL can bypass the AV software that their sadistic IT people force them to use. The only solution there is to just not take jobs where someone can force you to use such machines.
Certainly, I agree that there's a savings in not being beholden to the same regulatory fees as a traditional car/taxi service. I guess I see that as also part of a subsidy. I think one reason they feel emboldened is because they know they have a huge pile of VC cash at their disposal form which they can pay legal representation.
Many channels are seeing their revenues plummet as big companies pull their ads out of fear they will be shown in more controversial videos ... Strictly speaking it isn't censorship when Youtube removes a channel for being politically too extreme.

Ugh. It's not remotely censorship to stop funding something. You don't have any obligation to pay me to jabber in front of a camera, and neither does anyone else. Putting the distinct ideas of "refusing to pay for X" and "censorship of X" in such proximity is either the result of confusion or a deliberate attempt at emotional Roveian conflation.

The linked Guardian article makes no mention of YouTube removing either videos or channels. If that's not happening, then whatever is happening isn't even similar to censorship. Just because the Guardian author throws the term around so casually doesn't make it true.

...we should ask ourselves how comfortable we are with large corporations essentially setting the terms of acceptable political discourse by pressuring media platforms into banning unpopular opinions.

Back in the 1970s, when video in America was dominated by three huge networks, an argument like this would have made a glimmer of sense: if advertisers pulled out of a program en masse, the network management would cancel the show in search of something more profitable, and the attitudes or opinions the program espoused might not be represented on television at all anymore.

But the internet isn't like that. YouTube isn't like that. You can keep making your show, your blog, your own personal website, etc., regardless of what the advertisers do. There is no panel of bean counters controlling access to limited, valuable airwaves, because the "airwaves" are unbounded in breadth and unmoored from time. One might argue that this is the principal, signature difference between broadcast television and internet video.

Even if YouTube was deleting videos outright, they're hardly the only way to share videos online. They simply aren't capable of "banning unpopular opinions" in any effective general way.

It's a little tough to take "righteous" "Wiseman's" internet-censorship-based startup ideas seriously when 1) he doesn't seem to understand what censorship is 2) he doesn't seem to understand important differences between the internet and older media systems.
These kind of bosses are a rare species in any setting.

Most want to build their political cartel, protect it and build it for their own good.

I've even seen bosses who purposefully punish high performers out of fear that they might become a threat to their job.
Yeah, I saw that, that's no good. I like it 98% of the time :)
When I had donate buttons, I literally had someone tell me I was panhandling the internet. Tip jars are a better way to signal "It took work to create value here and compensation is appreciated." It has gotten a very different response from people.

I am glad your strategy is working for you. But, if you are interested:

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2015/11/how-to-make-...
Yeah it's just a shame that multiple choice tests are the standard rather than practical examinations. All the multiple choice tests look for is if you have memorized their documentation and can figure out the test format rather than if you can actually apply it, which are different skill sets.