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Communism is not a solution. It was tried in my home country with horrible results. It's been 25 years since end of communism and we are still recovering from the damage it has done to us.
Greed Isn’t Good
Ask HN: Good companies for remote DevOps person?
I'm looking for new challenges in the DevOps space.

It seems all small/medium-sized companies are using SaaS CI/CD solutions and so the work of DevOps at these companies is greatly diminished. Just set up a few recipes, configure repositories and let developers work.

So I'm thinking working for one of these DevOps SaaS companies might be ideal for someone with more experience and the desires to keep their hands dirty with infrastructure work.

Does anyone know good companies operating in the DevOps SaaS area that embrace remote workers?

Another option is to apply at Google Cloud, AWS, Azure.. but they only seem to be looking for high-profile CS grads from major universities (and they don't seem friendly to remote workers). I'm more of a generalist with lots of Linux experience (I've coded some kernel drivers but my thing is distributed systems design, maintenance, troubleshooting, etc).

Any advice?
Because there are already biases and forces at work that compel the "all fingers off the scales" towards an already given direction. See: Sociology.
For me retirement means not having to worry about income ever again, not to stop working.
By "here" I meant my office.

Tcl is not elegant, it's simplistic. Just look at the ugly workarounds for language shortcomings like upvar. I'm not saying javascript is elegant (is anyone?) but it's less unwieldy, quicker to learn and immediately understandable to a c coder.
> At this point, I might as well run Linux from scratch...

You might as well learn the Debian tooling and run a system with the OpenSSL package patched with a build-time change.

On Ubuntu, that'd be the same as maintaining a PPA with one source package in it. On Debian, it's effectively the same except that you'll need reprepro or a script around apt-ftparchive instead.

This is far easier than your hyperbole of running Linux from scratch.
It is not a realistic option for an author of accessible software to ignore JAWS. Obviously, open source software has no obligation to support accessibility, but that means that it'll be used less (this does not just affect visually impaired people, but also organizations and companies that have a need or obligation to keep their systems accessible; ADA compliance, for starters).

So, yes, open source programmers are perfectly within their rights to ignore that audience, and that audience is perfectly within its rights to not use open source software that doesn't meet their accessibility needs and to warn others and advocate against the use of such software.
I am not that into the whole data storage world but for backupping my NAS I looked into Backblaze which is a lot cheaper than both at $0.005/month/GB.
Initial coin offering, my friend.
It means if you offer the binaries for download it is enough if you also offer the source for download. So you don't have to have a mechanism for distributing physical media.
This seems to be the most sophisticated post here, so thank you for the context. Indeed MBTI is also pants. But what is grit? I've not heard of that.
Not sure about GCP, but Google certainly has back-ups for GMail. I was affected by an outage where only a few accounts (maybe millions but at least not a lot by Google standards) had emails deleted due to a software issue. They explained that recovery would take a few hours because data had to be restored from tape. At least that's the message they showed when I tried to login. Note that this was the free GMail product, no business support.
> After all, even if the statistical female population does have a higher baseline for neuroticism, would that fact actually weaken the argument for gender diversity?

Nobody argued against diversity, the document in question only stated that our current diversity efforts aren't really working and that we should consider measurable gender differences such as prevalence of neuroticism if we want to really move the needle.
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What are you talking about? Web servers AND web browsers both use OpenSSL. If it's disabled, you can't speak it at all in Debian.
I would have less than zero patience being around such people. Those who are so far deep into the status rat race to look down on others so blatantly are impossible to relate to. In fact I might be liable to respond to the situation parent poster described in a manner that I would probably come to regret.
Buzz words are a hell of a drug
Every time Bitcoin hits an all-time-high, these news articles get posted. "Oh, it's all a bubble! Surely, it will all come crashing down.". But now you also see analysis posted like: http://fortune.com/2017/07/03/goldman-sachs-bitcoin-price/

Anecdotally, but you can also see the trends in wallet increases, nearly everybody I know under 30 owns crypto.

Will there be a bubble bursting? Sure, much like the dotcom bubble, crypto will see its downtrend too. But look where we are now. Businesses like pets.com could thrive.

Not all early internet developers got rich. People who bought domains like pets.com and pizza.com got rich, and they did not need a lot of technical know-how. If they did, the internet would have always been the playground of highly technical people, and would not have seen wide adoption or eternal Septembers.

I first got into Bitcoin around 2013 after lots of articles were posted about it on Hackernews. Second stint in 2015. Finally started again two months back. There is still (a lot of) money to be made. Some people say I missed the boat by not buying the outlier BTC when it was 1$, but I could have also bought it at 50$ or 200$. Heck, you think Bitcoin is going to stay at 3300$ forever? Ethereum was 1$ 2 years back. That's a 200x-300x ROI there. I have no doubt some newer coins will do an easy 5x in 12 months. Past two months for me have been life-changing (possibly life-changing for my family too).

Some of these crypto companies are going to be the next Google's. Or they will use their winnings (or ICO) to bootstrap a competitor.

Are there scammers, hackers, hoaxers? Yes, it is still very much the wild west. Compare your email box around 2000, and the amounts of spam you had to sift through. Some less tech savy and/or naive people will get suckered in and some people will invest more than they can stand to lose. This is unfortunate, but beyond my control. I may even make some money of their irrational behavior. But people who read HackerNews? I've no doubt they can sift through the crap to find the diamond mines in the making. To spot if a team is technically advanced or just faking their marketing and headcount.

About the blockchain. To me it is like the early days of the internet ~1997, but for the financial world. It has the potential to disrupt Central Banks, FinTech, Money Transfer, Micropayments, Identity & Privacy, Money lending, Smart Contracts, Provenance, IOT, ... Far from boring, far from bubble.

This month will see the third wave of large-scale Bitcoin interest. I've spoken to web developers that are learning blockchain and smart contracts to prepare 3-5 years out. People are actually betting their livelihood on this technology. Is that a guarantee that the crypto market cap will increase? No, but it is a sign of the times we live in and the sweet spot that Bitcoin hit this month.
No one has been charged with wrecking the worlds economy in 2008. Sometimes I have to wonder, is it down to who you know or who you can influence when it comes to charges. Shkreli got his comeuppance, but why a blind eye to other larger fish?
Show HN: Exterminate: Subtly break Python programs in an annoying way
And that redundancy of data won't help you if the control server crashes.
For that reason I think we should support modern day Marxists (and non-Marxian Communists), anarchists and Communalists in their research and investigation into advancing their hypothesis. A good read on this is Badiou's The Communist Hypothesis.
Ethereum is planning to switch to Proof of Stake in the coming years:
https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Proof-of-Stake-FAQ
I'd highly recommend this set of videos: https://youtu.be/kjBOesZCoqc
Machine learning datasets from UCI
Depends if the protocol change affects the API and ABI. I think with OpenSSL, it might. But I'm not sure about that...
If your daily commute is 150 miles perhaps you are living or working in the wrong place. :-)

Of course if you have access to electricity at your workplace you only need 75 miles anyway. A Hyundai Ioniq charging from a normal 230V 16A circuit charges fully in about 8 hours giving you about 150 miles. But 75 miles to get there means it will be only half empty when you arrive so it will only take 4 hours.

The real challenges with electric cars now for the near and medium future are infrastructure not range. There is a project starting, in the UK I think, to turn lamp posts in to charging stations. One could imagine a scenario where companies used the availability of charging stations in company car parks as incentives to work there.
I agree that worker protections need some work in the US, but to say that a black market brothel is somehow going to be safer than a regulated, above board one is simply madness. There is no way on Earth that sex workers are better off not having access to law enforcement. And that's just one facet of being in the black market.
I do this. I work from home mostly as my companies office is an 8 hour flight away. I have a standup first thing in the morning and try get a bike ride or gym session in at the end of the day. I also have a table in an office that is a 40 minute bike ride away however I feel better and more productive when I work from home with this schedule.
This point has been already made by Eric Raymond in his article "Women in computing: first, get the problem right" http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=2118
Fair. A liquidation race is certainly plausible.
No, it's checking the referrer. Cookies can't of course be read by other sites, that would break everything.
Don't be sad, it doesn't hurt my feelings, it's just silly to call yourself one. Why not call yourself a "Software Doctor?" You should be proud to call yourself a programmer, developer, coder or hacker; those are great skills to have. Impress people with your ability, not some made up title.

BTW, I've been a "Software Engineer," and "Software Architect" for 20+ years. Don't get me started on people who call themselves "Software Architects" that don't even code out their designs.
I still have the green cover one, I am planning on letting my child have at it when she is old enough. Right now we are just doing the snap electronics.
> Between 1996 and 2014 the richest 1% fell further behind the national average in the percentage of their spending dedicated to bling.

Do you count their home(s)? Conspicuous consumption also looks like:

- having homes in particular neighborhoods

- certain kinds of upgrades to the homes (elaborate pools, media rooms)

- extra homes (Paris, Manhattan, in the mountains, on the beach)
Yes, within the last week I used BTC to purchase software and make donations to youtube content creators
Libraries to treat strings as files are pretty common, in python they have one in the std:

https://docs.python.org/2/library/stringio.html
But they usually admit to errors. The public logs in this case confirm that it wasn't maintenance.

For OVH (as for any provider) it's better to promise 99.999% and pay if you have an issue than to promise 99.99% and lose clients to AWS.
You mean convert spaces to tabs, right? ...right?!
That's what hardware wallets, paper wallets, and safe deposit boxes are for. It doesn't take that much effort or technical skill to keep coins very secure, and the information on doing it well is readily available.
Meet Univention: Linux Alternative to Windows Domain Controller
Backblaze is not built to handle thousands of concurrent connections towards specific content, while both OVH and S3 are.
Creating new wealth, without cash
Recommend Four Lions as well - perhaps one of the few pieces of really cutting satire I've seen on the subject.
Amazon S3's Glacier storage tier is even cheaper at $0.004/GB/month.
Boston Dynamics’ robot fell off stage and the internet totally missed it
I get less done with longer hours. I try to eliminate meetings, phone calls, emails.

We have Jira at work as well as some legacy Bugzilla systems. I have been trying to get everyone sending requests to my group to put them in Jira.

I prefer a structured process so I can minimize interruptions of developers.
> I use a lot of accessibility apis indirectly for keyboard navigation

Many cycles ago I wrote a tool which brought Unity-like menu search to Windows, and also used the accessibility API to do this (IAccessible, I think). Even back then there were many apps which didn't expose anything there, even from MSFT.
Climate does matter here!

We are expecting a lot more heavy rain fall and rising rivers. That's also why we spend billions on inland water management. In our area they are even discussing "garden pavement taxes".

So I don't agree with you that there is no relation to our believes about climate change.
LSTM trained on HN
Many of us dont have to imagine.
In this case how would a press release be different from a targeted pitch email? Or would you skip the latter because it wasn't in a PR format?
And add traffic costs to that. $1.1c/GB is a fraction of AWS which makes it attractive for objects that are requested frequently.
What risk? What end of career? Maybe that's the theory but a failed CEO who destroys a company will cruise into another CEO job in practice... or even make a run for POTUS.
you need to also be able to laugh at people who try to pull that off in real life. Have had a few of those in my time, as probably most people have. Initially I tried to be 'professional', but have learned to be more blunt as those happen. To be sure, it's happened less over the last few years, but I don't know how much of that is there's an actual shift in peoples' expectations, and how much I'm just not networking as much :)
Worsted wool, especially damask fabrics of it were definitely upscale and expensive, and went way beyond imitating silk, many of the dresses you'll see of English royalty including most of those wore by queen Victoria were made out of wool not silk.

>It's simple, it's about buying things that have meaning, that were produced with more love and care than the average mass produced product.

Like what? virtually every "hipster" product is the same mass produced consumer "garbage" with an added Apple commercial twist to it.
The clothes are made in the same place, the coffee is rebranded, your special mustache oil is made by some pharmaceutical company in the philippines and the list goes on and on.
You were effectively sold not a product but the idea or feeling behind the product, there is nothing wrong with that as long as you are honest about what you are buying.
The few that aren't are effectively "luxury" brands, food items that used to be the staple hold of high end restaurants and personal chefs are now sold as "artisan foods" mostly since now there are people who will pay 150$ for some wassabi or 40$ for nice large salt crystals.
Beyond that you have some silly brands that somehow convinced you that buying a 20$ jar to drink from because it was handmade is better or more authentic than buying a 20 cents jar made in a factory.

If you want authenticity there's the Amish lifestyle, you don't need to go that far today you can homestead and live pretty much of the grid in many parts of the US (less of that in the rest of the World, GL doing that in Europe), you don't want that, it's fine most of us would like to enjoy the comforts that modern life in a developed nation (especially with the average salary of the average HN reader) can afford.
But at least be honest with yourself, most of it is about effectively living the lifestyle of those who would never have to worry about their personal and familial finance but unlike them it doesn't holds true for most of us, even those of us with SV tech giant salary and vesting equity.
You're right, and I didn't mean to imply those things comprise Linux. They are, however, what most people are talking about when they say they "use Linux". GNU + Linux comprise the "desktop Linux" platform.
UX and Psychology go hand in hand – How Gestalt theory appears in UX design?
I left GCC development after being ranted at. You just see the people who hang around.
UiZoo.js – A Dynamic React Components Library
I've had a few stripper friends and acquaintances, including two roommates. Sure, these were fairly pretty girls (but not models or prom queens) doing fairly posh/well-protected "sex work" in upscale clubs, but it's worth saying that they mostly regarded it as a dream lifestyle. They'd work one or two days a week, make $60,000+ a year, and get lavished with attention during work. Naturally, they had lots of time to keep up with multiple hobbies and/or advance more long term careers in various ways. They've all gracefully transitioned into smart long-term career options.

It's hard to say how representative these experiences are, but my hunch is that workers catering to middle class and upper class clients actually have pretty nice lives.
No way, Jamie is one of a kind. Just like you couldn't replace Elon Musk with 100 random MIT grads.
This was all true of subprime loans right up till 2008. And plenty of people bet their livelihood on those as well.
That x 1000
If you visit a place like IJmuiden you'll see that over the last couple of years the various waterworks have been heightened by several meters to account for higher seas. This is a direct response to climate change, the fact that a good part of the country is below sea level definitely adds to the sense of urgency felt to do something about this but we still have 1953 well present in our collective memory to warn us against being complacent.

I always explain NL to visitors as a machine rather than a country. The moment you stop the machine or stop maintaining it the sea will begin to reclaim it.
Self Deploying Applications Without Kubernetes
The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker is another good book to consider.
I am pretty sure that the French unemployment office is strictly forbidden to ask their religions to practitioners. And French law does not recognize any religion, so it would actually be a breach of our very strict secularity laws to give rights (to refuse a given job and keep benefits) to a believer of one religion compared to another.

Actually this office is widely criticized to propose absurd job offers to candidates as they are pressured to remove candidates from benefits lists, either by finding them a job (rare) or by having them refuse two jobs in a row (more common).

Their scenario was really not that implausible.
What We've Been Up To
And OVH's archive is $0.0023/GB/month. Although I guess that with archive storage, transfer and access costs could be a significant part of the bill. But OVH's business model is to be cheaper than AWS so I guess they'll end up below the AWS price.
The "press escape to clear textbox and again to close the modal" example doesn't seem to be working for me (vivaldi 1.11.901.3 (64-bit) on Windows 10), it just closes the modal on the first press.

Will test other browsers.

Edit: Works in Chrome (59.0.3071.115) and Firefox (54.0.1), must just be a Vivaldi quirk - they're always breaking something.
Just conservative? Isn't a defining feature of any government passing laws that enforce its way of thinking on others?
Plumbing and electrician work is both heavily regulated and non-trivial.
No.

And if your comment was a headline, that wouldn't be either.

:)
We already tried it without fingers on scales - but where things ended up was where we were thirty years ago.

It's probably not useful to think in terms of goals - a 50/50 split might be an _ideal_, but clearly is not one that's ever very likely to be arithmetically real.
I like the guns part :) Which ones do you have already?
> Well, there is this problem with all support and maintenance tasks: if you do everything perfectly, no one notices. It takes you leaving (or a threat of you leaving) for people to realize that your contributions are important to the operation.

I'm not sure I follow. If threatening to quit is sufficient in making your work visible, then your work should've been recognized to begin with.

And if it takes you quitting for people to notice things falling apart, then the threat wouldn't be enough regardless.

If people came out of the wood-works to ask you not to leave, it means you were doing good work that people saw, but you weren't sufficiently rewarded for.
Show HN: Echo Show – RaspberryPi Security Camera
Any decent ICO reserves a portion of the new tokens for the founders, vested for at least a year, so they have an incentive to build something that makes them valuable.

A cap on the ETH to a level that's realistically usable for development can also be a good idea.
In general there may not be that much novelty per project, but that isn't the novelty that one needs to worry about in software projects. The relevant novelty is the novelty to the project team. Also lot of the novelty comes not from the technical side, but domain and organization that will be using the software.
Modern prime testing is quite far from brute force. Tests such as AKS[1], ECPP[2], and APR[3] can determine whether a number is prime in polynomial time (in the number of bits/digits), whereas a true brute force search would be exponential.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AKS_primality_test

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_curve_primality_provi...

[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adleman%E2%80%93Pomerance%E2%8...
Where could we find a kind of comprehensive list of CS problems, algorithms with association of the real problem what it can solve in practice?

You mentioned a few here, I suppose, there could be a full list already somewhere. :)
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>The terminology is shifting though, and has been for some time now.

Yes, I agree. "Coder" and "Programmer" are grey beard terms.

>Also synonymous with hacker, which I would bet also has a reversed connotation for those who see coder as a good thing.

Yes; a hacker is someone who can bend the computer to their will, even when it isn't supposed to do it. That's one of the reasons people who crack software and infiltrate systems sometimes get that moniker.

>implies the person thinks their job is complex enough to warrant the title, even if not deserved by the standards of other engineers.

Ya, that's kinda the problem. It has an inferiority aura about it.

> In the end, it's pretty meaningless in terms of impact. CS vs SE I think should be the focus, as yes, the two can be quite different, even if most CS degrees end up working in SE.

It absolutely is meaningless, I guess that's what bugs me about it. CS is for creating an improving algorithms. John von Neumann discovered/created merge sort in 1945 (among other things). He is CS. "Engineering" is taking merge sort and using it for efficient joins in an RDMBS; applying science to an actual thing.
That won't work. You'll need to accelerate each individual molecule of water to orbital velocity or you'll just be making a lot of rain. Water molecules are not connected tension wise the same way a space elevators' tether is. Even ice has a tensile strength that is way too low so the fact that it is going to be below zero still won't help (might turn your rain into hail or snow though).
their solution only makes the sea levels higher for everyone else.

how about seasteading instead (sic)?