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In my niche commercial industry almost all software is server-side software. Only now is everyone moving to the cloud - mostly as a way to collect data and generate some recurring revenue. So small businesses with a few devs now need to either spin someone up on AWS or hire someone.

I could definitely see less ops engineers needed in some companies that move to AWS from some in-house platform but overall "devops" is rapidly increasing in demand.
Kip (YC W16) is using data to make therapy better for patients and therapists
I think I used the term "negative mass" on a physics pop quiz once. Had something to do with matter-antimatter reactions. Appears I was 23 years ahead of my time.
The other interesting thing about German unification is it led directly to the new nation deciding that universal health care should be a state sponsored thing.
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This seems extraordinarily nitpicky given that the first paragraph exists merely to set up the simplistic view of the war's causes which the rest of the article is dedicated to knocking down.

I mean, by all means point it out, but bailing out on the whole article because of that is a bit much.
It'll be that same person with the Alcubierre Drive
Outdated, see: https://blogs.windows.com/business/2016/08/11/updates-to-sil...
Naw, I left for grad school a long time ago.

When I was a B-school prof, one of my students was getting a pilot's license and asked me to contact FedEx for him, and I did. I got a note back from Smith that FedEx would welcome the application from the student but had a long list of pilot applications.
Texting sucks and is extraordinary frustrating to try and keep up with massive group texts (almost borderline anxiety-creating), and phone conversations are always difficult and frustrating. However, FaceTime and similar video-calling is great. I wish we could make phone just default to this.
And it meant that there was a precedence for taking up arms for equality and freedom...for a war that would, "make the world safe for democracy," as President Woodrow Wilson put it in 1917 when he requested a declaration of war on the German Empire.

What was the German Empire doing to threaten equality, freedom, and democracy that France and England and the US weren't also doing? The argument that the US entered because it declared itself to be in favor of those ideals is quite a stretch.
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I don't know if the text has been changed, but it reads:-

> After all, it was the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in Serbia in 1914

and doesn't say anything about _where_ the assassination happened.

edit: the words "in Serbia" have been pointed out to me; there is a bug in my reading comprehension; sorry for the errant comment.
It can work - I won't re-post everything again here, but I've already mentioned in this thread how I used my 750 ti for training a CNN based on NVidia's End-to-End model to self-drive a virtual vehicle around a simulated track (this was part of Udacity's Self-Driving Vehicle Engineer Nanodegree).

Udacity supplied the simulator, I set up CUDA and such to work with TensorFlow and Keras under Python. I had to drop the res down on the simulator (windowed at 800x600 IIRC), and training was done without the simulator (I used the simulator to generate the datasets - this is built into the simulator). The resulting model was actually fairly small (less than 300 kbytes); I scaled down the input images (originally 640x480, scaled to 160x120) to limit the number of initial parameters to the CNN, then applied aggressive dropout and other tricks to further keep things in check thru the layers as I trained (I could have used batch processing, too). The resulting model worked well with the simulator afterward - and it had no problem with memory or anything else in order to keep up.
If this is up your street, may I recommend Dan Carlin's Blueprint for Armageddon, which has over ten hours of podcast material exploring the lead up to the first world war.

Probably the best podcast I've ever downloaded, and insane that it's available for nearly free.

http://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-50-bluepri...
> I was saying that talking to someone on the phone is the worst customer service experience in common use.

I disagree with that pretty strongly. The phone is the second-best method for communicating a complex or unusual problem, only behind a face-to-face meeting.

Anyway, the worst customer service experience in common use is actually the fixed-option support menu (that usually obscures how to contact a real person).

The real determiner of good customer service is how the process was designed and how empowered the representatives are to fix your problem. Case in point: Amazon's famous customer service. I had an unusual problem with an order recently. Their chat support utterly failed to help me after several tries, leaving me very frustrated. Their email support couldn't help me either, but explained I needed to call. It turns out only their phone support is empowered to escalate things to someone who could help, plus the it was much easier to relate my issue to them. None of that frustration had anything to do with the phone vs. chat vs. email, but everything to do with Amazon's (poor) support choices.

> My anger is over the fact that I've been given​ no option but a phone call.

I can understand feeling frustration at that, but not anger.
What's interesting to me here is that, it seems like a lot of the causes/triggers to WWI/WWII were due to conflicts between nations and/or assassinations. We don't necessarily have anything as big as 2 equal nations fighting, capitals getting invaded etc.

So does that mean WWIII will probably never happen given that we don't have any of of these crazy causes/triggers?
Volatility, i.e. greater dispersion of returns in the short term.

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/v/volatility.asp
Yeah I use a wooden chopstick to unclog my Kuvings.
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If you jailbreak your device you open yourself up to other threats.
it takes such a tiny amount of effort to solve this particular problem.

No! No! No!

Removing everything that anyone might find annoying is not a tiny effort.

And it is not one that I even want to participate in!

Even for stuff that still annoys me like unneccessary swearing I don't even care about it after I finish reading because I find this correctness more harmful than the alternative.
I've mentored new ( already seasoned ) hires remotely. It worked well. Skype calls, instant messaging, screen sharing, code reviews, and a genuine interest in helping were the key. I don't see any reason this wouldn't apply to mentoring less seasoned teammates, unless they do not enjoy working remotely.
There's a version of Poe's law at work here. I legitimately can't tell if you're seriously into some sort of competitive toothbrushing or if this is satire.
I'd look at it almost like Wix and other WYSIWYG editors: it's perfectly fine for smaller stuff. Small to medium doesn't really need to flesh this stuff out. I could use the hell out of CodeStar currently. I'm doing multiple small projects and this shop is doing the "ops people" thing, so there's a ton of friction between code, test; deploy.

But on my last project (much bigger) Elastic Beanstalk started to really show its rough edges, and I was pretty close to tearing it down and setting up by hand, which gets in to becoming the guy who knows AWS Good Enough™.

But I could've easily seen that project scaling way up and being tempted to go the Kubernetes route, which would've required a true DevOps person to maintain.

Just based on my anecdotal experience, I don't think either of the previous projects were paying for the DevOps person in the first place, and I don't think CodeStar is going to replace them now either. This is just low-hanging fruit.
I do, mostly just for PHP, everything else I use Sublime.
This is a good point. In the US and (to varying degrees) other Western countries we have a stronger notion of free press and free speech. These are major structural characteristics that permit a balance of power between those given authority and those they have authority over. A reduction in free speech/assembly/press, means a reduction in the ability of the people to revolt (to any degree) effectively against those who abuse the authority they've been granted or taken.
I don't find it useful to use the term beyond attacks aimed at actually terrorizing people. Stuff like suicide bombs in crowded public squares or metros, sarin gas releases, etc. A particular attack doesn't have to actually have any victims to qualify (it could be unsuccessful, or the outcome could be lucky), but it at least has to have that goal, or else how is it in any way "terror"?

Some kinds of animal-rights attacks on shops or universities could qualify, especially ones using indiscriminate methods like car bombs. But I don't see how it makes sense, apart from wanting to use pejorative hyperbole, to use "terrorism" to describe sabotage that damages equipment on a lab or farm, things like throwing paint or glue on things, short-circuiting electronics, etc. We already have the perfectly good words "sabotage" and "saboteur" to describe those acts and the people who carry them out. If these all start being grouped under "terrorism", then we end up with absurdities like describing the Boston Tea Party as an 18th-century terrorist attack, which I've actually seen people do, but I don't think is useful.
> If that's the case then why would any other developer write apps for Windows?

Why would any other developer write apps for windows if that were not the case either?

I'd bet that, if there's any answer for that, it will be a perfectly valid answer for your question too.
Dynamics are not the same (as they were in the 80s). Although the principles of supply/demand tend to be the same, we are talking about product/service that sucks in the "naive" users that fail to see the end-game and only see the cat photos.

Addiction plays a huge role and Facebook is playing its cards very well.

"Tipping point" speed is x100 nowadays.
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> Why is it still bad in 2017? Honestly, how could we fix this?

Simply refuse to participate in asinine technical interviews. Counteroffer with a discussion proposal.

This subject actually comes up with great regularity. Here's a solid TC article from 2015 > https://techcrunch.com/2015/03/21/the-terrible-technical-int...
Agreed. I've been a Bose customer for over the past decade, buying a new pair of headphones every couple years. While I get that people criticize them for a number of good reasons, I don't mind paying a bit more for a premium product that I use daily. That they offered great discounts for returned/broken headphones has kept me a customer for a long time. In the next year or two I'll probably be getting a new pair of wireless headphones, as that seems to be clearly the way that things are going. Bose would have been a simple choice, but now they're not. As a customer it's frustrating to see companies whose products I enjoy using compromise my trust in them with such short sighted actions.
faith in EMH[1]: This is only true if you make a single lump sum investment into Vanguard without looking at the price.
I'm kinda suspicious of how it's used here, too. What exactly is the "price" that consumers pay when they use Facebook? Their time? Their generation of content?

What exactly is the product that's offered? Connections to their friends? News articles?

It seems that Facebook simultaneously acts as a supplier (of connections to people / news) and a consumer (of connections to people / news).

So, it's not really clear what the 'price' and 'quantity' axes really represent in reality.
There's also a much more relaxed work culture. I'd say that's probably number 1.
The bit where it says "in Serbia" seems to be talking about where the assassination happened. That could potentially refer to where he was Archduke instead, but that would be a really odd way to construct the sentence if so, and in any case would still be wrong.
I don't know, I'm nearly 30, and I know a few people in their 30s or 40s who often talk like this as a joke. I think that's the tone of that README. It's just meant to be funny.
Counterpoint: it took less than 10 years for 77%[1] of the US to own a smartphone, which has made many new businesses viable, including arguably the entire IoTs.

Then you have the secondary effects: the chips that are used as sensors in the phones are now cheap enough to put into everything. I have an e-parking device that automatically stops and shows the time when I park (many parking spots here are free, but can only be used for a limited time). It is not connected to anything, it just measures when the car moves.

[1]: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/01/12/evolution-of...
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Greater lens affordability/compatibility. If they offered compatibility with Canon glass they'd be unstoppable because there's a lot of that about.

For video Sony is really pulling away from the competition. Outside of niches like sports and nature videography autofocus isn't nearly as important for video as it is for still photography, and nor are super-high-quality lenses - as long as the image is reasonably sharp people actually like the idiosyncrasies of older lenses in many contexts, and in any case it's common to rent lenses you need for a particular project rather than needing to have every option in your bag.

Sony has really been killing it with their low-light capability and ergonomics in recent years, and while you could point to other camera firms that do better in this or that specification area, the fact that Sony is a large global corporation that's very unlikely to go out of business in the foreseeable future is also an asset. I don't own any Sony camera gear myself so not being a fanboy here.
You are bullying people into following your cultural prescriptions.

When I know that people have historically and are now getting treated unjustly (denied legal protections, murdered, discriminated against, etc) due to gender, race, religion, etc, I wonder how someone could possibly get offended by "bruh". There's some perspective that is missing there.

Bruh itself is not even directly offensive, it's just loosely connected to fratboys which is loosely connected to frat culture. What is there to be offended about?

What you are suggesting is that people should change their behavior to avoid the outrage of the mob. Now, historically, do you see the problems with mobs, do you see the contradiction in supporting mob justice with your aim of inclusivity?

Do you have the same opinion about the use of AAVE?

You're trying to make other people follow your social standards when the easier thing to do would to be not offended by innocuous language.
I read it as: "assasination of the [person] of [country origin] in [place] in [year]". I can see why it's confusing.
Also more money for food usually means more wine usually means more time before return to work
The article is exactly about this.
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I've referred a few folks to Kip who were looking for a therapist after struggling to find one elsewhere (in one case, I downloaded the app on their phone and just sent the person to the first meeting). So far, they're reporting positive things about the app and the experience.

One of the interesting things that Kip solves is discovery: it seems like they have a roster of prequalified therapists who follow evidence-based strategies. That's pretty interesting – the basic process of finding a qualified therapist who's a good fit via the usual methods (Google, asking people) isn't easy.
Don't listen to anyone who tells you "just get over it" or acts like mental issues are not formidable, they are indeed talking down to you. That is not at all what I meant.

Being labeled by a psychiatrist as mentally ill is also stigmatizing though, and it often leads to civil rights being taken away from the individual. The fact that they can take away your rights without objective evidence is my concern.
True, you are correct. Though it could be attributed to the author as a smaller mistake, as Franz was assassinated by a Serbian nationalist. I am more confused to how the US's reconstruction had anything to do with setting the stage for World War 1.

> For just as 1866 guaranteed a militarily and culturally strong Germany which would wear down Britain, France, and Italy to a near breaking point in World War I, it also guaranteed a truly united United States, with a society that held the majority view that democracy and equality were worth fighting for – and which would intervene to defeat Germany just in the nick of time.

Nothing in the piece supports this statement, and I find this pretty hard to agree with. The first part of the article is a rehash of known facts and history. The last few paragraphs are, from what I can tell, irrelevant to the overall theme as well as thinly-veiled glorification of the United States Civil Rights Act.
Looks like Chrome 58 also shipped today.
So, one of my soundbites is: "Who are you?" is the most expensive question on the Internet. No matter how you get it wrong, you're fucked.

Thing is, I think we're missing the point on "identity". It really devolves into a set of related, though nonidentical, considerations:

* Authority: Should you be allowed to do the thing you're trying to do?

* Reputation: What is your credibility or history? Closely related to trust.

* Integrity: Is this thing with your name/identifier on it actually yours, and the same as when you created it?

The point is that identifiers are cheap and easy. Reputation should be exceedingly expensive. Integrity is very nearly a simple technical problem. Authentication, similarly, and it carries the additional challenge that People Lose Their Damned Keys.

I'd like to see a signet ring or similar mechanical, worn, replaceable, contact-based device replace or complement password and other mechanisms. Which means establishing some kind of standard (you need a detector / sensor on a wide range of devices).

And that happens to be a Hard Problem.
In real estate you'd call it investing via a gentrification strategy. Lets say in a net inflow market where the net flow is going in and supply (of new stocks) isn't keeping up with demand, you buy company A B and C and greater supply/demand effects (plus inflation, I suppose) mean they all go up, A goes up 10%, B 20%, C 30% and your investment strategy is to own equal dollar values of A B and C.

Perhaps A is large caps, B is small caps, and C is metals, it don't really matter for the sake of discussion.

You started off with purchases equal to your 33% 33% 33% goal ratios but after a year of unequal growth you're overweight C and underweight A.

Active rebalancing is selling enough C and buying enough A to get roughly equal ratios of A:B:C.

Passive rebalancing is if you're contributing $5K IRA per year or whatever, dump all your contributions into underweight A. Or whichever is underweight at any time.

Basically if your position ratios don't match your goal ratios, if you're selling thats active rebalancing and if you're merely changing the ratio of what you buy because you're a net investor thats passive rebalancing.

Going back to the real estate analogy dumping money into purchasing a lot in a gentrifying neighborhood is an analogy for passive rebalancing. If you sold your best performing property to fund it, that analogy would be active rebalancing.
Can you script 'reading the docs' for me, because that's the part where their design most grates ;) ? Por ejemplo, for tables of methods/functions on objects, the cell sizes are ridiculously huge, so I have to zoom out to like 25% on the page to see more than 2 funcs at a time.
Operators are probably done-for, sure, with the exception of some deep-magic systems. But DevOps? Nah. It's just that "operation" is a subset of development now (as in many ways it was before I was born, when "sysadmin" was a dirty word for "Perl hacker").

Much of my value as a consultant is that I can drop into a shop, understand the tooling and the stack, and develop a solution that makes sense, using AWS tools where appropriate or general-purpose ones where the AWS ones don't fly, and I can make it approachable for developers (not operators, but developers) with less experience and make it easy for them to hammer on it and expand it as needed.

That's not going away--if anything, the steadfast drive towards understanding less of how anything you do works makes people who do understand it more valuable when the shit hits the fan. And it always does.
I'm still trying to figure out if this is a viral marketing campaign for season 4.
I was a big advocate of OneNote until I got burned just last week. Windows Phone 8 devices suddenly stopped syncing. The outage lasted over a week. Today it seems to be back, but 10 days without the ability to view my notes was enough to make me think twice about using it

It actually prompted me to start building a simple note / list app for WP8 to replace it (not to compete - I just like building things for myself). I got a working beta before OneNote started syncing again, and I'm going to press on. It's super simple - just opens text files from Dropbox, either as lists (like todo.txt on android) or notes (simple textbox). If I ever switch phones all my notes are in plain text / md files.
If that sounds too spiritual to you, consider even Newton's 3rd law, "For every action there is an opposite and equal reaction". Humans are swiftly bringing their own demise in the name technological advancement.
The downside of net neutrality I guess. You can't do something 'nice' as it violates the regulation, but ultimately if we let 'nice' things slide constantly then NN would just die out. Everyone would find an excuse for their own 'niceness.' T-mobile's music streaming exception is the most obvious one in the states.

I don't see why non-profit status would be an exception. I can start a non-profit version of my service and still pay myself a handsome salary, perhaps more due to all the money saved by being a zero service. Facebook can just spin off a Facebook Foundation or somesuch and get around these rules. The abuse would be endless.
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> seen as off-putting towards non-bro people (specifically, women) who aren't in the "in-group"

Have you talked to anyone in a sorority? Its a fraternity for females and they share the same speech quirks.

>. It has nothing to do with insulting frats, just that particular language which is "frat-ish".

That's nice, do you also take offense to things like ebonics because they seem "black-ish"?

I think you're being unintentionally insensitive because you're blind to your own prejudice
So is this only if you're using the app it's able to build a profile? I love these headphones but I believe I only ran the app the first time I used them to pair it
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I imagine they must have some kind of stop loss strategy; there's a bunch of research comparing various strategies to buy and hold, and buy and hold is pretty much 2nd worst, with the worst being an overly aggressive stop loss (like sell everything at a 5% drop).
Ask HN: How do you monitor your AWS costs?
With the increasing usage of automation it's getting more and more easy to deploy a lot of cloud resources and the cost attach to it increase as well. So I wonder how do you keep track of it ?