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Ask HN: Automating Cloud Teams use cases in G Suite?
Cloud Team includes DevOps members, IT manager/CFO, Cloud Admin.

What are the different manual tasks that you do part of your daily tasks (in terms of operating your cloud operations and devops)?

Would any of the following simplify your day to day work?

- Send an email to create a VM on any of your cloud?
- Simple approval workflows to streamline Resource (VM, Storage, Snapshot, IP) provisioning?
- Send Daily Audit or Security Assessment report on your cloud infrastructure?
- Find out a cheaper cloud option for the new QA or POC test?
- etc
Work-life balance and choosing employment based on colleagues, sensible pace of work, sense of doing good and interesting tech instead of paycheck.
Surprisingly - Soylent. It saves a lot of eating time. No, a LOT of eating time. Plus it is probably a little healthier than what I'd eat otherwise.
If I were him I'd try to work out some sort of contracting deal where he sells them the codebase and agrees to support it for X years, for a reasonable price. They would get a finished and polished app with zero effort, while maintaining control on the internal api; and he would get a nice runway to work on this and other projects.
File a PR.
Except most people don't care if they are being tracked and if they aren't anonymous, so systems like these emerge using the lack of anonymity as a feature.

I am one of the folk in the inevitability of cryptocurrency camp (not btc or any existant coin, though) but that world is one where it becomes very easy to correlate wallets, or at least where the funds come from, with the person making the purchases.

For everyone who wants anonymity they can keep using bitcoin and gold after fiat paper and coins are gone.
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Not to mention people who use their vehicles as a hobby - be it in motorsport, vintage restoration, or whatever.

Electric cars and Automation will do the same to conventional cars as the automobile did to horses. Cars didn't bring on the horsepocalypse, it just created a new enthusiast industry around them as opposed to being a mainstream transport industry.
I measure my quality of life in experiences, so there are 2 issues here: good health and knowing what makes you happy. I'm going to focus on the first one because it is more generic.

It depends on what you're doing. I spend most of my day sitting in front of a computer: around 9 hours with some small breaks. Another good portion of my time goes to sleeping, so a great bed, pillow, chair and desk are a must. If you make compromises with any of them - you'll have neck/back pain.

Food is another thing to spend some money on: especially fresh fruits and vegetables. If you're a caffeine junkie like me - a good coffee will make a huge difference.

Another thing to consider is a suitable sport. It doesn't have to be a gym (I find gym borring), it can be any sport you find satisfying. I put it in the list because some sports can get really expensive but might or might not be worth it, it depends on you.

I'll just sketch some non-health related life improvers: trips, bike riding, hiking, music lessons, volunteering - anything that takes you out of your routine and makes you happy.
The whole concept is underpinned by enforced, auto-scaled busywork.
I was recently wondering about the bike. I commute 15 km each way and have a cheapo bike. I could afford way better (say , a 5000€ one compared to the 300€ I currently own) but has always wondered about the actual improvement.

I tried a new bike a few times on my commute and yes, it may have been better but not that significantly. The 15 km are mostly flat, save for a step part of a few hundred meters, and 1/3 of the path is in a forest (the other is on well separated bike paths).

I was wondering if a super bike is actually and objectively worth the investment (I know that some peine just live nice bikes and that's great, I am more thinking about the case of someone who sees them as a pure commodity)
positive. Also I think to have mentioned it at the interview, it seems to have made a good impression on at least one interviewer.
It fits more with the definition of treasure
I still see the majority of developers that I've met using Vagrant. I gave my own team the option of both and as yet, I'm the only one using docker, so I think you'd be surprised. Docker seems to have gone out of favour in a lot of places.
All of these topics are related because they all tie into the problems caused by increased consumption that is encouraged by the mainstream way of living.

To take the example you've just mentioned, while Amazon may be more eco-friendly per transaction, as a whole it encourages much more consumption through the convenience the service brings. Somewhat similar to the Jevons paradox.

The point is that the cost of the mainstream tends to be distributed in a long term and systemic way, (for instance Amazon becoming an extraordinarily powerful monopoly, or the environment slowly reaching a critical threshold) which makes preventing them necessary but extremely difficult to do. Not to mention that the advantages of our system are also undeniable and more visible.
I get calls with no caller ID, ie its blank or "0" or a number too short to be a phone number. I don't understand why a carrier would forward that call to a terminal, that's like sending on an email with no (or an impossible) sender address.
It is related to previous OCaml.NET efforts.

F# computation expressions, coupled with .NET expression trees are quite useful though, even though they aren't macros as such.
> It is designed to filter through only clients who would think that stuff works. That's a bit like scammers claiming they are all from Nigeria. It's a counter intuitive bit but it's very important.

That's an interesting point I had never considered. I had often wondered why Nigeria was still mentioned even a decade ago. That it effectively filters out those that are likely to have heard of the scam or something like it, extending possibly even to online fraud in general, does effectively provide an explanation.
Ubuntu Artful Desktop July Shakedown
Archiveteam are backing up SoundCloud
How do you find a good chair? I personally want to try a chair it before buying it. But I find all the local stores have cheap chairs that last a year or so.
I actually had to think about this for a few minutes. I suppose having written a number of custom orchestration tools both in local clusters and the cloud, debugging distributed services is still incredibly tedious.
The only and biggest reason why I will stick with MPC is it's compatibility with ac3filter.
> Finally, in general people who are average but think they're above average really do not like to confront the fact that they're average.

I don't think this is necessarily a consequence of overinflated egos. I consider myself an average to slightly above-average developer, yet my salary is consistently higher than my peers. It's higher because I'm willing to negotiate on my compensation. I don't concern myself with what I'm worth or what business value I produce. I simply try to maximize my pay

This quote from Mr Robot sums things up brilliantly: "Power/wealth belongs to the people that take it. Nothing to do with their hard work, strong ambitions, or rightful qualifications, no. The actual will to take is often the only thing that's necessary."
This looks a lot like Greyskull LP.
Linux is not Unix (?)
I find MPC key binding a lot better than VLC. I use skip ahead by 10 seconds a lot and using simple arrow key on MPC is very convenient compared to VLC where you need to hit a combo every time.
Vacation scam, 'this is IRS' scam, 'update your google business account' scam, 'this is microsoft support' scam, and then ~20% of the time someone trying to sell me window blinds, security systems, or other low-value, high-margin crap.

Although once I did get a phone call from Adobe, back when they had that big userinfo leak. I thanked them for the call, but said I wasn't going to do anything over the phone, they could contact me through my email address, which they did. So that's one legit one, at least.

I have to leave our house fax unplugged most of the time for the same reason. It is a genuine annoyance.
EVs are a distraction that fools a lot of people ito thinking that car culture will be sustainable with EVs.

The lifetime CO2 footprint of a EV is about half of a fossil fuel car, which means we'll still have to cut down on car use a lot.

In addition, if we assume all reasonably priced oil is going to be pumped up and burned in transport, then EVs may even cause an increase of global CO2 emissions because car use will no longer be limited by the global oil supply.
No, it is destined to succeed (IMHO).

The massive-growth-model of startups dictates "YOY, double revenue on a 50% cost increase. Rinse and repeat until profitable". As long as the funding holds out, this model is mathematically sound.

Uber is well on track for this from the (admitted dodgy) numbers I have seen - those being summarized here http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/14/technology/uber-financials/i.... Uber is (again, rumoured) to have doubled revenue in 2016, with a reported $6.5B net revenue, and a loss of $2.8B for ~$9.3B in costs. Double and 50% those numbers, and you get $13B, and about $12.2B, or ~$1B in profit.
I think you have an idealized and false idea of what advertising is.

I don't remember ever seeing an ad showing a new invention. That is actually not the purpose of advertising. You can't understand a new concept in the time lapse of an ad. In fact, you'll see that new inventions normally become popular via other means (targeting niches firsts via specialized magazines, conferences, etc.) and only use advertising when they already have an established business and market.

The fact is, most advertising is just about manipulating peoples feelings. The first kind is about brand aggrandizing, trying to change how people feel about a specific brand--this brand is "quality", "fresh", "young", "elite", whatever. The second one is about stimulating demand, normally trying to make people need things they did not need before: "you are fat! buy our cream!", "your life is boring! buy our holiday packages!", "you look ugly, buy our clothes!", "you could be healthier eating our pro-active meta-splendidous yogurt!", etc. In either case, the goal is to make you feel bad, incomplete, until you spend your money on more shit.

Personally, I would love to live in a world with almost zero advertising. I am from Spain and one of the things I love about Berlin, where I live, is the low amount of advertising in the streets compared to anywhere I lived before. That is changing slowly though. But I have seen pictures of DDR Berlin and there is literally no ads. Of course, sadly that package came with the STASI and other horrible things. That aside, I would love to be able to walk the streets without having to look at ads telling me to buy shit over pictures impossible women in lingerie, rich men in expensive cars, smiling youngsters partying together, families on vacation in the Bahamas, etc. I know people that consider such world dull, gray, etc. But for me, it would bring some kind of new zen to urban life.

Ironically now, thanks to the Internet, advertisers themselves (and security agencies) are tracking our lifes in ways the STASI could not even dream of. The grass is always greener on the other side, but if you try hard enough you can always get the worst of both worlds.
How does a liquor store take advantage of the poor? Because it sells an addictive product cheaper than a bar does?
> OEMs would revolt

but.. where would they go? what other options do they have, realistically?

> you can bet they'll be tripling-down on Tizen or forks or whatever

really? i'm just not that sure. I think many OEMs would happily give up all the engineering expense/effort they carry right now to compete in what is essentially a commoditized market.
I'm currently a developer advocate for ECS at AWS, so I'm pro ECS as you'd expect. But before I worked at AWS I used ECS in production (since the early beta).

At the time we ran a microservices deployment of ~15 services on ~20 hosts. ECS made orchestrating the services easy for a couple reasons:

Unlike with self managed Kubernetes on AWS we could have high availability with just a simple cluster that just had two machines. Running the Kubernetes control plane high availability requires a lot of setup, and while there are tools like kops that are helping out with setup now its still a lot of extra administration. (See https://kubernetes.io/docs/admin/high-availability/) The advantage of ECS here is that you just start two or three instances in different availability zones that run an agent and that is all it takes to have high availability. You don't have to pay anything extra for the control plane resources, or worry about monitoring it or maintaining it.

Also AWS ECS integrates really well with all the other AWS services. For example metrics from your services automatically get piped to CloudWatch, where you can set up an alarm that triggers a Lambda function, or publishes to an SNS topic that triggers a Pagerduty notificaton. Or you can use the metrics to make a CloudWatch Dashboard for creating a custom overview of your cluster. Logs likewise go to CloudWatch where you can setup triggers that execute a Lambda function. You can give each service its own IAM role to control which resources (DynamoDB tables, S3 buckets, etc) that specific service has access to. ECS integrates really well with Application Load Balancer, which allows you to easily setup a mixed architecture, where some traffic is routed to services that are running as containers under ECS, and other traffic is served by older applications running directly on hosts with no container.

If you are looking for more info as you evaluate whether or not AWS ECS is right for you please check out this list of ECS resources, most of which are created by the developer community: https://github.com/nathanpeck/awesome-ecs

And feel free to reach out using the Twitter handle or email on my profile if you have any questions or feedback on ECS.
What's macro-psychology? Do you mean group-psychology?

Economics is the study of a particular value system within society, that value system being the monetary/capital one. Human psychology comes into play (both at the individual and group level) because human evaluation and action is involved.
Playing with GraphQL and Python Flask
I assume you mean shockingly high?
I am doing DoggCrapp but instead of a defined number of sets and rest intervals I simply blast each exercise for 5 minutes trying to achieve a repetition goal. I also skip the extreme stretching thing.

No diet. No defined frequency, I train when I can, which is not as often as I'd like.
This is /not/ AOT compilation of ruby code.

It simply compiles a ruby interpreter and adds your code to the executable (as memfs).

The output is an executable that /interprets/ ruby code.
Typically chasing happiness directly makes it harder to reach it
No. Our landline is not my business line, and only family has it. My fax line is something I've given to a lot of businesses, but the # number of calls is roughly the same. My cell is also my business line, and thus freely given out, but thankfully the number of calls is less than either of our landlines.
> I cannot consistently write safe C/C++ code.

I'm not sure how to interpret what this means. What do "consistent" and "safe" mean? Is safety about not corrupting program data? Even when dealing with Python arrays, I can end up corrupting my arrays one way or another (off by one, race conditions, etc.). Is "consistent" about going days without a bug? Because I can't do that in any language. If not, what do these mean? It'd be really nice to know what other languages he can write safe code in, so we can have something to compare to.
It's not just privacy. It's also attention that's invaded.

Among the many buzzwords of recent years is the "attention economy". It has already existed for quite a long time (newspapers selling ad space are actually selling their readers' eyeballs), but since a few years ago, ad companies have the technology to optimize for maximum attention.

The effects of attention economy can be witnessed in reports of people quitting Facebook temporarily as a kind of detox, or the general uncluttering movement (caused by sensory overload which is in turn caused by attention parasites like social networks, and our generally hectic lifestyle). In my opinion, the costs of the attention economy outweigh its benefits.
Utility to find differences between databases?
For office work:
http://www.hermanmiller.com/products/seating/performance-wor...

For relaxation:
http://www.hermanmiller.com/products/seating/lounge-seating/...

disclaimer: I have the first, I want the second ;-)
As Chinese, I would say, the scale and speed of China getting rid of cash is truly impressive and makes me proud, but, in US, with credit card and Apple/Android Pay, I am pretty much cashless as well. For me, the achievement of mobile payment is social-economical, that is more about how companies could persuade customers to adapt a new way of doing something than inventing some ground-breaking technology.

In case of China, put it into another perspective. Chinese banks have long been state-owned and very ineffective. Credit cards are incredibly difficult to apply, and cumbersome to use after you get it because the banks refuse to pay you back in case of frauds. This is why WechatPay/Alipay could be so successful:

1.There is no existing dominating technologies.

2.It mitigate the fraud problem that it is harder to stole/clone your card.

3.The onboarding process is really easy.

All in all, I think mobile payment takes off in China is pretty logical, while in other countries, like Japan/South Korea, it is not common at all, even though they are close to China culturally and their economies are considered to be more advanced than China's. This is a classic example of second mover advantage, that China could enjoy this great leap forward, only because it is not advanced enough before so doesn't have all the legacy to carry along.

However, I agree with you that US needs to ditch the illusion, that it is still the norm of innovation and others should follow. The world is getting diverse once again after the cold war, more and more innovations will happen elsewhere, like in East Asia or India. Time to let go of that useless ignorance and set down to truly listen and, learn.
Yet another subtle pro-Rust rant against C.

Programming is hard, and writing safe code requires knowledge, not just in C, but in every single language. Even in formal-validable languages you can make mistakes: may be you'll not make errors by using sprintf, but can make others because of using a more complex language.
So you're trying to advance the argument that democracy is all nice and good to determine minor local issues, but it is not good enough to determine the next president? Seriously?
1. Food; I love cooking from fresh and find it immensely relaxing
2. Travelling; my partner is a school teacher and has 12 weeks holiday a year, we try to maximise that time by travelling around the world
Foom, a Food and drinks startup raised of $46,000 in a seed funding
My concern is mainly that my attention is such a huge source of revenue for facebook. So much so that their advertising revenue is consistently several times more than their actual cost of revenue [0][1]. The gap is so wide, it's hard not to feel like I'm being robbed every time I see an ad on one of these "free" websites.

[0]Earnings release: https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/...

[1]Q1 2017 income statement (excel spreadsheet): https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_financials/2017/FB...
> "BSD+patent"+"revoked patent grant because you sued Facebook over another patent" is pretty much the same as just BSD from the start.

Not really. If you have BSD with no patent grants you can at least argue that there's an implicit patent grant. If there's an explicit patent grant which you violated/got terminated that defence is clearly not going to fly.
On what grounds do trust your reason, senses, or understanding?

Whether I axiomatically start with Rationalism, Empiricism, or some combination of the two I always end with, at the very best, Solipsism (via the Simulation argument), and more so these days just pure philosophical Skepticism. "I think therefore I am" is only true if "I think" is true, and to say that "I think" is to take as a given that I exist, which is begging the question. We might be able to say that "thought exists" (and therefore a thinker must exist, etc) but this is premised on "truth exists", since "thought exists" is meaningless without veracity, and to say "truth exists" is to continues to beg the question in two possible ways: First truth requires a mind in order to be known which is what we're trying to get at in the first place. Or, if that set of reasoning is too shaky for you then: "truth exists" requires truth in order to be true.

I do not think it is useful to stay there, so when I approach the world I have a sort of base understanding that I'm taking certain things which may not be true (my own reason) as true for expediency because the alternative is to cease thinking. But just as arithmetic (the basis of nearly all of mathematics) isn't logically proved unless you assume the Zermelo-Frankel continuum I do the same with my understanding of existence.
> Is "consistent" about going days without a bug? Because I can't do that in any language.

Amen to that. Even when I feel like I cover most of the cases, the sands of time will slowly eat away at the foundation, things become deprecated, and new error conditions added all the time.
"Show HN" is more like a store display. It describes that something is available. Also, front page space is won by upvotes, not sold to the highest bidder (or so I hope).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14779881
Yes that never made sense to me. Employees who have been around for a couple of years are much more efficient and know their way around - They are worth more, and yet they always get paid much less than 3-month or 6-month contractors or even new full-time employees in many cases.

Also if they say that they want to leave a company, usually employers let them go relatively easily without making any significant counter-offer. It means that employers don't even see the value there; they actually think that every employee is 100% replaceable and don't account for the massive efficiency loss incurred.
I like how MPC-HC uses proper hardware codecs for h.264 and doesn't try to do it programmatically on its own like some other players do.
I think this whole "competent coders don't make mistakes" is a testament to the immaturity of the software development world. Real men write in assembly, maybe C if they're a bit tired.

It would be like a construction worker saying "only noobs need a hard hat" or a surgeon refusing to wash their hands because they're careful never to touch anything contaminated. Or maybe simply refusing to wear your seatbelt because you're a good driver.

Guns don't kill people, people do but if your gun has the bad habit of firing randomly when you don't want it to I guess it's fair to blame the gun a little bit as well.
Yet large companies still launch investigations into why retention is so bad and have employees fill out surveys to try to figure out why people are leaving. Multiple-choice surveys, of course, with no questions about compensation.
United States: 3–8 per day on my cell phone. Some nights, I get dozens of calls one after the other. I work on-call.